Yada yada yada. Again. Starting over the mountains around noon, moving east, scattered bumpers. You can start the Jaws theme around 1, this time earliest will come off into north metro/Fort C, start a little later down south metro. Less moisture today so won’t see the flash flood warning out in the hinterlands of Aurora and whatever the heck benighted landscape is beyond that, but out in that beyond a couple of them might go severe so we may have something to keep the news guys yapping and furrowing eyebrows over.
Boring, right? I did weather stuff at the airports here a few years, this time of year in Denver that’s getting paid too much for doing nothing. A LOTTA Netflix.
Great sunsets and sunrises, though. Down along the gulf coast, New Orleans down around Florida, it’s does the same day to day, too, but a bit with more panache. “Well, we’ll see the sh*@ get beat out of Mobile today, might swing north as far as Anniston. 30% chance of trailer parks in Tampa leveled.”
NYT today talking about Jaws, the movie. “The first summer blockbuster.” We were living on the Gulf Coast at the time Jaws came out, the movie pretty much kept my wife out of anything bigger than a swimming pool for a while. That summer, 1975, America was reeling. We were hurt. Wordlessly, quietly, grieving something bigger than we could understand. Jaws came out in June that year, 7 months after a president resigned in shame. 2 months after we’d watched America lose a war, watched Saigon falling in technicolor detail over long days of impossible newsreels. Yeah, we were ready to panic about a shark and forget the world we didn’t seem to have a handle on.
We’re about due another spectacle that’ll take us away, eh? Wonder what it’ll look like, with films and public spaces gone. Hmmmm.