Lightning/thunder

[umpjim]

Originally Posted by scrounge

Had a coach get upset that I stopped a game last year on hearing thunder, excitedly claiming that if I didn't see lightning, I couldn't halt the game, that thunder wasn't enough. What did this moron think was causing the thunder, angel farts?

Anyway, after giving him my "are you dumb or just stupid" look and saying it didn't matter, he tried to bigtime me claiming he was a college and high school coach and he knew the policy. It was a rec game on a time limit, so I had my cell phone in my back pocket (never brought out except to check near end of time limit and....in case of a situation - it was summer rec after all). Made an exception in this case, pulled it out and pulled up the state policy that very clearly said "if you SEE lightning or HEAR thunder" (capitalized that way in the original document", it's a mandatory 30 minute delay, in which the clock restarts at every subsequent sighting/hearing.


Oddly, he didn't want to look at it. He knew he was busted.

Put the weather bug app on your cellphone. You won't have to look up the state policy. It shows lightning strikes in the last 30 minutes.