Is anybody else watching this? It’s only 96-ish degrees right now, and we’ve got a line of thunderstorms bearing down on us. Listen, I want the wet. But then there’s the record.
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basically what this incoming storm is saying is, because i wasn’t yet born in the summer of 1980, i will never be able to one day tell my children and grandchildren about how i lived through the GREAT HEATWAVE OF 2011. because they will be brats and they will have magic iWatches that will immediately tell them that the summer of 1980 was hotter and will just text me “meh” from their space cars? that’s what this storm is saying to me.
@ 2:34 pm on August 11, 2011
I’m watching it. Right over Dallas it disappears. I’m really starting to think that somewhere in Dallas we have an unknown evil genius who has built a “Mega Xenor Diode Invisible Dutch Oven” for some nefarious plan.
If only Dallas had its own Superhero….
@ 2:39 pm on August 11, 2011
Let it Rain!!
@ 2:40 pm on August 11, 2011
Just left Coppell. Car thermometer read 87. Glorious.
@ 2:41 pm on August 11, 2011
LOL – I have never been so happy to see a thunderstorm.
@ 2:41 pm on August 11, 2011
Temperature is at 88 at DFW, and west Tarrant county is the only one getting rain. So we might miss the record AND get no rain. Nooooooooo
@ 2:49 pm on August 11, 2011
I’m with Tim that I am dismayed by this development, and I am with Amanda Cobra that I was not born in the summer of 1980. In fact, I was already smoking cigarettes by then.
Hey, if we think really hard, maybe we can stop the rain!
It is now 85 at the airport. No way are we hitting 100 today. And you know what? I’m to blame.
Earlier in the week, I asked the FrontBurner Nation where I might procure a dishdasha so that I might go without pants for the remainder of 100-degree streak. Around lunchtime, I went here and bought one. I had planned to wear it tomorrow, to celebrate tying the record. We all know what happened next.
As Zac puts it, I started planning the parade.
I’m sorry.
@ 3:07 pm on August 11, 2011
Thank a lot, Tim. You were probably the a-hole who uttered “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you,” too.
@ 3:27 pm on August 11, 2011
Tim, I will bet you a $100 that we won’t break the rec…. Ahh, nevermind.
@ 3:42 pm on August 11, 2011
Thanks a lot Bin Laden.
Although if you kids had been here in ‘80 you would know that this summer doesn’t compare. It was so much hotter and drier back then.
@Timmytyper, I place the blame squarely at the feet of Jerry Jones. He wants that roof open tonight with nice, cool football weather flowing through the Deathstar to get everyone jazzed about paying hundreds to watch guys who make gazillions drop passes.
@ 3:58 pm on August 11, 2011
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basically what this incoming storm is saying is, because i wasn’t yet born in the summer of 1980, i will never be able to one day tell my children and grandchildren about how i lived through the GREAT HEATWAVE OF 2011. because they will be brats and they will have magic iWatches that will immediately tell them that the summer of 1980 was hotter and will just text me “meh” from their space cars? that’s what this storm is saying to me.
I’m watching it. Right over Dallas it disappears. I’m really starting to think that somewhere in Dallas we have an unknown evil genius who has built a “Mega Xenor Diode Invisible Dutch Oven” for some nefarious plan.
If only Dallas had its own Superhero….
Let it Rain!!
Just left Coppell. Car thermometer read 87. Glorious.
LOL – I have never been so happy to see a thunderstorm.
Temperature is at 88 at DFW, and west Tarrant county is the only one getting rain. So we might miss the record AND get no rain. Nooooooooo
I’m with Tim that I am dismayed by this development, and I am with Amanda Cobra that I was not born in the summer of 1980. In fact, I was already smoking cigarettes by then.
Hey, if we think really hard, maybe we can stop the rain!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8b9HEIx5J8&feature=related
@RossG — Raining in Bedford…
It is now 85 at the airport. No way are we hitting 100 today. And you know what? I’m to blame.
Earlier in the week, I asked the FrontBurner Nation where I might procure a dishdasha so that I might go without pants for the remainder of 100-degree streak. Around lunchtime, I went here and bought one. I had planned to wear it tomorrow, to celebrate tying the record. We all know what happened next.
As Zac puts it, I started planning the parade.
I’m sorry.
Thank a lot, Tim. You were probably the a-hole who uttered “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you,” too.
Tim, I will bet you a $100 that we won’t break the rec…. Ahh, nevermind.
Thanks a lot Bin Laden.
Although if you kids had been here in ‘80 you would know that this summer doesn’t compare. It was so much hotter and drier back then.
This Can’t be Today…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxaky41I6xU&feature=related
@Timmytyper, I place the blame squarely at the feet of Jerry Jones. He wants that roof open tonight with nice, cool football weather flowing through the Deathstar to get everyone jazzed about paying hundreds to watch guys who make gazillions drop passes.