Well, I suspect it was a long drawn out moan or groan - this is probably the result of many days (weeks) of not being able to have functioning CAM respiration, ending in a gurgle of suffocation in black gooey ooze.
The problem is the night time temps so unless I go with some kind of enclosed cooling there is very little that can be done. I think in a way I am lucky given that I have been able to stop myself from watering, but if there is no temperature relief there is only so long before it gets bad enough to happen without added water.
The sun burn is not pretty but if that is what it takes to get the plant through these periods I will take it. Some of my agaves that are growing near my cacti which I deep water every so often are starting to look like they might go the same way. Not all, just a few.. that is the problem of trying to create a somewhat balanced landscape not all the Agaves in one spot and the cacti in another.
You see the effects of 'melting' through out town where large landscape agaves have a central core sitting sideways. It is the opposite effect of weevils - there the core stays up longest with the outer leaves going flat. Here the outer leaves are frequently still solid and upright but the core is just rotted through seemingly from one day to the next.
While our day time highs are not going to be much lower (though no 115 plus except for a day here or there) the night time highs are supposed to go down to the mid 80s, which gives me some reason for optimism because my back yard appears to get a little cooler than the official forecast point. Or my thermometer is just off it said 89F at 11.30 last night while official measuring point said 97F.. It matches the day time highs just fine, so who knows it could be real and that would mean that my plants might see low 80s soon which if consistent would allow me to water a bit.
Not an aloe picture I know, but my Echinocacuts platyacanthus specimens are doing just fine in the sun, you can see that the Agave clump right behind it is not that happy at all:
