Heavy Rain, Lightning Prompts Evacuations At The DNC

CBSPhilly ^ | July 28th, 2016 | Unattributed

[Mariner]

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Wind gusts, heavy rain and lightning have forced people to evacuate the media tents outside of the Wells Fargo Center and take shelter less than an hour before the opening gavel on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

Officials say that the media tents in the vicinity of the Wells Fargo Center are not designed to fully protect people in the event of a direct lightening strike.

They’re strongly recommending that people leave their tents due to lightening that becomes a concern when the strikes are within a six-mile radius of the DNC and evacuate to Lincoln Financial Field nearby.

People are being told to exit through the magnetometer tents at the corner of 11th Street and Zinkoff Boulevard (north of the Media Pavilions) and enter through the Lincoln Financial Field 11th Street gate or the XfinityLive! gate just north of the 11th Street Gate.

[vette6387]

Those were my very thoughts!

[SaraJohnson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc
Johnny Cash

[SparkyBass]

wonder if this will hold the floodwaters back...

[seawolf101]

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

[vette6387]

I hope that the MFing convention hall goes dark while she’s in her “acceptance speeci.”

[Billthedrill]

There are those on this site hard-hearted enough to wish for something untoward to happen, such as a bazillion-volt lightning strike that bores through the ceiling, melting through the superstructure, vaporizing every man, woman, and poopy little lapdog in the arena in a GIANT, SCREAMING HOLOCAUST, FILLING THE PLACE WITH RAZOR-SHARP SHRAPNEL, EVISCERATING EVERY DEMOCRAT POL WHO EVER HAD HIS HAND IN THE TILL, DESTROYING EVERY VESTIGE OF LIFE IN THE VICINITY, SPRAYING THE INTERIOR WITH BLOOD AND GUTS AND BITS OF BONE, THE SCREAMS OF THE DYING HAUNTING THE DREAMS OF THE BODY POLITIC FOR A THOUSAND YEARS TO COME!!

...but I'm not one of them. Never even thought of it. Shame on you people.

[dragnet2]

Heard a radio report earlier where some guest at hotels in the area of the convention were complaining of bedbugs.

[corlorde]

I’d just settle for a massive power outage when Hillary speaks. But yours is good too. ;D

[DarthVader]

I hope WikiLeaks drops the Part 2 bomb about 2 hours before she has to speak tonight. It will rattle her to no end and her speech will then be entertaining to watch because everything she has done will be pointless.

[Publius]

I know you live without a TV, but on the season finale of “Game of Thrones,” this was precisely what Cersei did to the sept with wildfire. It vaporized everyone and everything.

[nfldgirl]

To have screens across America go blank in the middle of Clintons speech would be...priceless.

Just the thought of that, and the real possibility, well...makes me so LOL! Ha!

[vette6387]

“I hope WikiLeaks drops the Part 2 bomb about 2 hours before she has to speak tonight.”

Me too, I am looking forward to the $hit stains on her Captain Kangaroo Pantsuit!

[jjotto]

Hosting a convention like this isn’t as easy as some think. The RNC made Cleveland commit to 15,000 hotel rooms, and the DNC is quite a bit larger. Someone’s going to end up getting assigned last.

[DarthVader]

She will likely be babbling and dejected because there will be no way out as the whole administration (OBuggery included) will be burned down. She will get no pardon from Acting POTUS Paul Rino either as this will be his moment to pull his ass out of the sling.

[dragnet2]

Whoever the caller was suggested it was Trump supporters dumping containers of bedbugs in the hotels. Comedy gold!

[seawolf101]

AND GOD DESTROYED SODOM

[r_barton]

Someone needs to take that clown atomic cloud and put Hillary’s face in it. ;-)

[jjotto]

That really is a laugh riot!

Didn’t Paul Manafort start earning his chops by putting itching powder on DNC toilet seats?

[tomkat]

That first pic was supposedly just the warmup, and the worst of it passed a bit to the south of Filthadelphia.

This is from 17:30, and is what the weather guessers are saying will be the deluge event, if it pans out.

(fingers hopefully crossed)

             

[Tammy8]

I agree, lightening is not what many now think it is:

Lightening: Not to be confused with a discharge of atmospheric electricity, lightening refers to the sensation that a pregnant woman feels when the baby drops. This is the time when the presenting (lowermost) part of the fetus descends into the maternal pelvis.