Posted on 07/28/2016 1:12:49 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...
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Oops; somebody let th the cat out of the bag that they didn’t read the rest of the article. :)
Thanks for the clarification.
Damn - you beat me to it - I just knew that SOMEONE had to post something with the witch and the storm! Great find!
And yet you wouldn’t know it if you watch the news.
Rove you magnificent bastard. You figured out how to start the secret weather machine!
LOL
Let’s hope that the back-up generators don’t kick-in tonight and the power goes out just as Hillary takes stage. How could the country not see THAT as a sign?
These Godless Communists will blame globull warming, not mother nature.
“Lightening” is incorrect. The correct spelling is “lightning.” It’s now a daily occurrence that I see it misspelled, usually on Facebook but now here in a news article (which manages to spell it correctly here and there!).
Took me a few times through the excerpt to see it, myself.
Got to be safer there than in all of those oil and chemical plants that surround the city.
I was working at Texaco Oil refinery across the river in Wilmington Delaware and we had a huge lightning storm hit. Talk about scare the $#!+ out of you! Nothing like being in the middle of 5,000 acres of highly explosive oil and gas processing and storage equipment when you are being pounded with lightning.
Since the ritten wurd is designed to convey a message and you were able to understand what was written, I don't understand your problem.
You have to forgive those who obviously aren't as intelligent as you. Even tho we were all created equil, many never had access to the obvious educational institutions as you........
I bow down to you sir and give praise for having you in our mist........
Lightening vs. lightning
Lightening is a present participle corresponding to the verb lighten, where to lighten is to make light or lighter. For example, we might say that a person who has been losing weight is lightening, or that an aging man’s hair is lightening to gray.
Lightning refers to an abrupt, discontinuous natural electric discharge in the atmosphere—i.e., the flash of light associated with thunder.
I would trust your knowledge and insight on that. I have just enough dyslexia to me spelling without auto correct or spell-checker a bad joke. ;)
No, silly, the storm was caused by a youtube video.
Thanks!
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