Umpire as weatherman

[SWFLguy]

Reminds me of a time down here when I first moved to SW FL. I had a high school game over by Lake O. It was raining in Fort Myers, and I contacted the school to see if we were going to be able to play. They said it looked good, so my partner picked me up and off we went. Rained all the way over. I swear the storm was following us. After the 90 mile drive in the rain, we were pulling into the town where the game was scheduled and his cell phone rang. It was the school informing us the game is cancelled. Swell. Drove back home in the rain too. To make matters worse, we did not even get travel pay for it. That kind is situation was fixed later.

[BretMan]

"Heat lightning" is, in fact, lightning. If it was present you shouldn't have been playing.

[teebob21]

Originally Posted by BretMan

"Heat lightning" is, in fact, lightning. If it was present you shouldn't have been playing.

Oh, I know exactly what it was. At the time, it was probably 10+ miles away. There isn't any way I could have convinced anyone to stop playing at that point.

You're from the Midwest, you know the type of clouds I'm talking about. I'm a big advocate of safety, but I can't properly express that situation on a forum.

[umpjim]

Originally Posted by BretMan

"Heat lightning" is, in fact, lightning. If it was present you shouldn't have been playing.

It is lightning but in areas where we call it "heat lightning" it's lightning well over 10 miles away which lights up the sky at night. You can see stuff 50 miles away and the actual bolts are not visible, just the illumination they produce.