Friday, September 21, 2007
Severe Weather
This morning after my first class, there were some occasional claps of thunder. I didn't think anything of it until the power went out across the entire campus for about twenty minutes. Later in the day, a rainstorm hit town and flooded some of the campus. The parking lot across the higway from my window was knee deep with water due to a clogged drain. People were swimming and riding bikes through it, right next to people trying to rescue their cars from the rising water. The highway itself was covered with about an inch and a half of swift moving water. All in all it was a fairly exciting day. Above is a video that a friend of mine took of the storm and had me edit and post for him. Enjoy.
As I am posting this, I see that the rain has started in full force again. Everyone is getting excited and running outside in the dark. I think I'll attempt to stay inside and dry this time.
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Holy moly! Does the Ganges flow past Houghton? Is this an annual event at Michigan Tech? I assume the video outtakes were of the freshman class’s traditional nude-run-in-the-rainstorm.
Of course, Wikipedia does note that “Houghton is sometimes confused with, or thought to be close to, Houghton Lake.” No kidding.
Speaking of Wikipedia… Take note of the growing collection of human-generated search results provided by Mahalo.com, which is still in beta. I helped to curate four pages.
Love the citizen journalism, guys.
Thanks, I think this event only happens once a century when it rains this hard. And, as far as I know, everyone kept their clothes on. Even us freshmen.
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