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Having experienced Hurricane Irene at the South Jersey Shore this past week am reminded how weather effects so much during the Olympic Games. The preparation before the games and the ripple effects after the games.
With Irene warnings were given more than three days beforehand. Fears, mandatory evacuation, and sandbagging were in full force. Absecon Island looked like a ghost town when my brother and I rode bikes on the boardwalk during the eve of Irene. Everyone was given notice to leave. In the old days, when I was a child we were given five hours. The weather reporting is so advanced, no doubt the olympic committee is grateful and although none of the games were hit by a hurricane there are some stories worth noting. Warm weather in Canada melted the snow but because of advance planning, the games went on because of the "imported" snow.
Necessity encourages creativity and during the summer games the heat is sometimes unbearable. During the '92 games in Barcelona one of the businesses, I believe it was a bank, helped hundreds of spectators protect themselves from the heat. They handed out folded paper hats. They hats could be twisted and folded into a small pocket and when unfolded they popped out to make an incredibly great white paper hat. Too cool. (I stilll have one of these clever inventions :)
With Irene warnings were given more than three days beforehand. Fears, mandatory evacuation, and sandbagging were in full force. Absecon Island looked like a ghost town when my brother and I rode bikes on the boardwalk during the eve of Irene. Everyone was given notice to leave. In the old days, when I was a child we were given five hours. The weather reporting is so advanced, no doubt the olympic committee is grateful and although none of the games were hit by a hurricane there are some stories worth noting. Warm weather in Canada melted the snow but because of advance planning, the games went on because of the "imported" snow.
Necessity encourages creativity and during the summer games the heat is sometimes unbearable. During the '92 games in Barcelona one of the businesses, I believe it was a bank, helped hundreds of spectators protect themselves from the heat. They handed out folded paper hats. They hats could be twisted and folded into a small pocket and when unfolded they popped out to make an incredibly great white paper hat. Too cool. (I stilll have one of these clever inventions :)
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