Thursday, July 20, 2006

Severe weather and a full stadium

I'm surprised that things like this don't happen more often.
A storm with 84 mph winds forced a two-hour, 12-minute rain delay before Wednesday night's contest between the Braves and the Cardinals.

Only a few minutes before the scheduled 7:10 p.m. CT start time, the skies darkened and heavy winds started at the new ballpark. The grounds crew immediately brought out the tarp and heavy rains started to fall a few minutes later.

"It was terrible," fan Jen Klimer said.

According to The Associated Press, 30 people were injured as high wind blew out press box windows, overturned portable concession stands and ripped the tarp at new Busch Stadium.


The baseball season is also storm season. We're lucky that storms walloping full ballparks is an uncommon event.

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