This doesn't really make the cut as a blog entry, but it was certainly funny-peculiar, if not funny-haha. The upshot of yesterday's very hot very not-football weather was... an electrical storm and a torrential downpour. All this occurred with eight minutes to play in a 27-10 game. I thought at the time that North Carolina really should have conceded, but the broadcasters pointed out that teams have made up greater deficits with less time on the clock. Because of all the lightning, the stadium was evacuated and fans were told to seek shelter. It being a football stadium, it's surrounded by parking, not shelter. So perhaps 90% of the 80,000 sought shelter in their cars and then as soon as they could manage in their homes.
Ironically, perhaps, there was no further scoring in the remaining minutes, played hours later. Today of course we have perfectly beautiful, if hot, weather. We just have to get the networks and schools to bring flexible scheduling to college football. Me I'm just applying flexible schedule to hiking and photography. Since it cleared off beautifully, I may have to go out again on a sunset photo safari, i.e., hunting good sunset pics. Wish me luck!
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