Nothing Ever Gets Old On The Internet

Although it got a little windy last night (at least in Center City), at least we avoided any scat storms. Phew.

Warning: Stay Away From CBP

The Phillies, fresh off a maddening loss in St. Louis yesterday, return to Citizens Bank Park tonight to take on the Boston Red Sox. If you’re heading down to CBP tonight, you’ll probably end up dealing with two annoyances: (1) A thunderstorm and (2) Red Sox fans.

Ever since the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, Boston fans have been known to all to be among the most annoying on the planet. They were just as annoying before then, but people felt bad for them because of their many NBA championships and lack of a hockey team (zing!). Now that the Sox have won two World Series in four years, the Patriots haven’t lost in the regular season in about 3 seasons and the Celtics are still a game away from NBA title number 17, people aren’t so nice to them anymore. (I’ve never been nice to them.)

Anyway, I’ll be enjoying this weekend’s series from the safety of my couch or perhaps a neighborhood bar so members of Red Sox Nation who share a last name with Ted Williams won’t be there to annoy me.

There isn’t anything different from Red Sox fans than from annoying fans of any other team. The main problem is there are simply more of them, it seems; it’s not your fault, Boston fans, but strength in numbers makes youse all really, really annoying.

There’s more from The 700 Level. Let’s go Phils.

The Inquirer’s Michael Perez got this awesome shot of the end of the heat wave.

See also: Matt Johnson’s photo on Phillyskyline.

“Get Me Some Weather Art” [Scene on the Road]

Respect Thunderstorms, Bitch

CBS 3 Meteorologist Kathy Orr is doing a weekly column this summer about weather at the shore for the Camden Courier Post.

This week’s column is about how to avoid lightning at the shore, and Orr tells us how thusly:

It is important when you are at the beach to understand and respect thunderstorms.

Here are the facts:

EVERY thunderstorm has lightning. Thunder is the sound lightning makes.

And here I thought it was angels bowling.

Stay safe from thunderstorms at the shore [Camden Courier Post]
Kathy Orr [CBS 3]

The Power Of Rain

You may have noticed that this morning’s posts were a little late. Well, even though there were other story-related reasons, I’d like to publicly plame my cable/Internet, which was out for a little bit. I’m assuming this was because of the giant lightning storm that knocked out power to tons of customers and still has about 4,000 people in the area without that modern convenience.

Everyone could sort of see the storms coming, since it was hot and humid all week and the weather people had been telling us that we were going to get soaked eventually all week. But now it’s all over, right, and the only real problem we had is that a couple places are without power and Clementon Amusement Park in New Jersey is closed?

Well, maybe not:

Clouds will be in place for most of the day today and with that, temperatures will be kept down. Additionally, the threat of rain at any time in the area will hang over our heads. This is an umbrella day because of the ‘any time, any where’ potential of storms.

Huzzah! What’s a better way to top off a week of hot, but nice, weather than with a bunch of thunderstorms!

Thousands without power this morning because of storm [Inky]
Forecast Discussion: Rainy Friday [Philadelphia Weather]