Anyone in NE building an ark? - Page 6

Lafalum84 · 07-06-2009, 01:31 PM

We left New England on June 24th. I was practically jumping up and down on my airplane seat, anxious to break thru the clouds and see the SUN for the first time in weeks! We were in the Carolinas for 9 days. Every day was bright sun, blue skies, temps 95 to 100 degrees. The only time we complained about the heat was during an hour-and-45-minute walking tour of a college. Otherwise we were happy - because D kept getting texts from her friends back in New England: "it's raining" "it's thundering" "we're having a hail storm."

Apparently we brought the sunshine back home with us. Today is sunny, dry and 80 degrees.

D, S and DH are the tannest people in town. On the other hand, you can't tell I even left the rain-soaked area. My family wore #10 sunscreen and laid in the sun. I wore # 30 and stayed mostly in the shade.

Bonus - the local fireworks were delayed last week due to rain, they're having them tonight so we aren't missing them!

teriwtt · 07-06-2009, 02:26 PM

marite, et al, - will someone please explain the significance of Sweet Caroline on the east coast?

We were at a wedding in Boston last weekend (the bride's name is a derivative of Caroline), so I thought it was cute when the band played Sweet Caroline, but then someone said the song is a huge east coast 'tradition'. Huh??

samiamy · 07-06-2009, 02:30 PM

"Sweet Caroline" is THE song played in every bar/club/party/wedding/ juke box, always riles the crowd up into a raucous rendition of the old song.

momof3sons · 07-06-2009, 02:37 PM

teriwtt, I think it is a Boston tradition, since it is played at Boston Red Sox games. They even had Neil Diamond perform at the July 4th festivities in "Bahston."

Chedva · 07-06-2009, 02:38 PM

"Sweet Caroline" is the theme song of Red Sox Nation. It's played during the 8th inning of every Red Sox home game.

Quote:

Amy Tobey knows the answer to the ''Sweet Caroline" question.

Tobey began working for the Red Sox through her job at BCN Productions, a film and video communications company, having interned for the Boston Bruins.

Her assignment was to decide what music would be played at the park from 1998 to 2004.

She had noticed ''Sweet Caroline" was used at other sporting events, and she decided to send the sweetness over the Fenway speakers.

The song was picked up by fans, and the more it caught on, the more superstitious Tobey became about playing it.

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In 2002, when new management took over at the park, they requested that Tobey play the song during the eighth inning of every game.

''They liked it and they just loved the crowd reaction with it and stuff," she says.

Though Tobey says she was nervous the change would be bad luck for the team, its appeal to fans ultimately ruled.

And under the song's spell, the Red Sox last season won their first World Series in 86 years.

Boston Red Sox - Another mystery of the Diamond, explained at last - The Boston Globe

JustAMomOf4 · 07-06-2009, 02:38 PM

It is a Boston thing from when they won the world series in 2004. They play it at every Red Sox game.
it is not that old a "tradition".

garland · 07-06-2009, 02:40 PM

Sweet Caroline is the theme of the Red Sox; most of us in the northeast outside of Red Sox Nation don't consider it as "ours", or need it to be. OTOH, my S's favorite Red Sox commentator has opined that the Mets are the new RS (the pre-2004 ones, that is--capable of unmatched imaginative ways to lose seasons and break hearts) so maybe we should adopt it.

UMDAD · 07-06-2009, 02:54 PM

Didn't New England have a drought a few years back? How are the reservoirs now? Are all the concerns about water supply over and done with?

BCEagle91 · 07-06-2009, 03:56 PM

Droughts were in the 1990s. Anything in this century was mismanagement.

UMDAD · 07-06-2009, 04:11 PM

Really?

BOSTON -- It is being a called a horticultural drought. The second driest August in 122 years is causing tremendous stress on the area's trees.

BCEagle91 · 07-06-2009, 04:18 PM

Well, New England is more than just Boston. We've had a lot of rain and snow this decade in New Hampshire. You don't remember the floods that we had two years in a row? The Merrimack Valley was heavily impacted. The Merrimack Valley has had to worry about flooding from snow melt further north along the Merrimack River.

I look out my office window and just see a huge amount of very green foliage.

UMDAD · 07-06-2009, 04:27 PM

Sorry, just out of touch with things NE-wise, other then New Haven. This summer in Michigan has likewise been cool and wet. Grass is very green and have yet to turn on a sprinkler.

ucsd_ucla_dad · 07-06-2009, 04:32 PM

Some interesting stats about the cool and wet June in NYC -
National Weather Service Text Product Display

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THIS JUNE IS TIED FOR THE 8TH COOLEST ON RECORD. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE WAS 67.5...3.7 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL...WHICH ALSO
OCCURRED IN 1897.

THIS WAS THE COOLEST JUNE SINCE 1958...WHEN THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
WAS 67.2 DEGREES.

BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES OCCURRED ON 23 OUT OF 30 DAYS THIS
JUNE...OR 75 PERCENT OF THE MONTH.
...
CENTRAL PARK HAS NOT HIT 85 DEGREES IN THE MONTH OF JUNE THIS YEAR.
THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 1916. THIS HAS ONLY OCCURRED
2 OTHER TIMES...1903 AND 1886.

THERE WERE 19 DAYS THIS JUNE WHERE THERE WAS AT LEAST 0.01 INCHES OF
RAINFALL. THIS HAS NEVER OCCURRED IN CENTRAL PARK.

...

Lafalum84 · 07-06-2009, 07:53 PM

At one point this June (around June 20?), Boston was on pace to break an all-time record, set in 1903, for the fewest days with any sunshine in June. It wasn't just cloudy and rainy, it was blowing mist and COLD - felt like the Scottish moors or something.

But the last 3 days have been bee-you-tee-ful!

lilmom · 07-06-2009, 08:09 PM

we're headed off to NYC next weekend. We'll probably be bringing the heat and humidity with us.