So it was all go in Boston last night with celebrations for the 4th of July, and for a bit of a break from science, philosophy and pages of code. You might note that this was actually the 3rd of July. It turns out that no matter the level of patriotism felt the weather will still triumph. In this case Hurricane Arthur is heading its way up the coast. We had about 1/2 hour of fireworks (which I will admit were starting to look a bit like cellular automata..) and then almost immediately were instructed by the police, various kinds of police, that we were to evacuate.
This was shortly followed by the skies opening and the ocean falling out.
This was shortly followed by the skies opening and the ocean falling out.
Hurricane Arthur is on his way, exciting times! Thankfully for any stereotypical residents of Boston they're likely to be safe what with Arthur being a male name. Statistically hurricanes with female names kill more because people tend to assume that women are weaker, apparently hurricanes haven't heard about this. Go Hurricanes of equality! For more information check out the Nat Geo article here.
All up it was a very exciting evening, fireworks, music from Frozen and the sampling of a Hurricane. We're back into school today, and the rain is expected to turn up a notch. So it'll be back to the Science next post!