Friday, August 15, 2008

A Carolina Gully Washer

The good news is that it's beeeeutiful today. You don't need a positive outlook or a PR firm to say it's a blue sky day with lower humidity. Most other times I've said it's a nice day, you would have needed both.

The bad news is that we got rained out yesterday thus our semis and finals are today, so I'm off on another BNU/MPC/Shunyi/MPC/BNU do-si-do.

What a storm it was - heavy rain, wind and lightning. Lightning was one reason we were delayed to today. Same as pool rules - everyone out of the water for 30 minutes after the last lightning strike.

I waited most of it out in the media "lounge" at the venue with a bunch of wet photographers. Might start a new poll. Which smells worse? Wet dog or wet photographer?

The other reason we were delayed is darkness. Tough luck that the Chinese didn't put in lights like at our FANTASTIC US National Whitewater Center!

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