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To those of you who know these things:

The weather report is calling for STRONG storms and thunder showers. I understand rain and wind- but what happens if we get sustained lightning? Delay after delay- play another day??? I know last year, our local high school had games delayed three weeks in a row- one was cancelled and replayed another day.

They have a rule that you wait 30 minutes after you see lightning and everytime you see more another 30 is added.
Thoughts appreciated

they would delay the game as long a possible but I think it would take a tornado or heavy lightning to cancel the game.

The only thing I've seen close to anything like that was the Browns preseason game when lightning delayed the game but they played it.

I'm sure they'll get some sort of idea what the chance of lightning is before the game and go with that, I think if there's no immediate threat then the game will be played.

i'm not excited about the weather, but i'm still going! I am going to stick with accuweather.com though. They have partly cloudy/showers for 6pm and 7pm and partly cloudy the rest of the night.. weather.com has 60% of rain the whole night... i guess we'll see who's right!

Mark it down, there will be some rain but no T-Storms. I mean, come on people, it's in the writing:

http://weather.bgsu.edu/mos/ngm/DAY.txt

It rained very hard about an hour ago...still some in the area hopefully it will move through before gametime. I live about 15 miles north of Oxford.

Possible heavy rain? No problem, don't forget the GMAC Bowl last year. GO FALCONS!!!!

hamjunior wrote:Possible heavy rain? No problem, don't forget the GMAC Bowl last year. GO FALCONS!!!!

I'm not worried about the rain- stayed for the whole GMAC Bowl! It is the lightning problem that I wondered about.

hamjunior wrote:Possible heavy rain? No problem, don't forget the GMAC Bowl last year. GO FALCONS!!!!

man that was a lot of rain, the Gulf of Mexico was falling on us.

turtle wrote:

hamjunior wrote:Possible heavy rain? No problem, don't forget the GMAC Bowl last year. GO FALCONS!!!!

man that was a lot of rain, the Gulf of Mexico was falling on us.

Yeah, and then we found it all in frozen form when we got home! I seriously didn't think I was going to make it home on Christmas eve...

Miami's 2004 opener was against Indiana State. When thunderstorms rolled in, they moved fans out of their seats and underneat the stadium.

Schadenfreude wrote:Miami's 2004 opener was against Indiana State. When thunderstorms rolled in, they moved fans out of their seats and underneat the stadium.

And into Millet Hall...... They are calling for strong winds tonight and t-storms all day. We might not go....... I have to think about Nicholas and school the next day...... a couple of delays and driving rain (we have no rain gear except some ponchos) could make for a long night.

This being a responsible parent blows If it was just me..... no sweat.

Tech83 wrote:

Schadenfreude wrote:Miami's 2004 opener was against Indiana State. When thunderstorms rolled in, they moved fans out of their seats and underneat the stadium.

And into Millet Hall...... They are calling for strong winds tonight and t-storms all day. We might not go....... I have to think about Nicholas and school the next day...... a couple of delays and driving rain (we have no rain gear except some ponchos) could make for a long night.

This being a responsible parent blows If it was just me..... no sweat.

My wife has already said that she will not be attending. I want to be there if we clinch the MAC East tonight, but I'm certainly not willing to put myself in harms way if these storms are going to be as bad as they're saying.

i dont think it will storm so bad that they cant play. and i like it because i think we will be better off in the rain!

I think anything that changes the overall dynamic is good for us.