Be Careful What You Wish For

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:57:43 GMT

For more than a week, the St. Louis area has been hoping for a break from 90ish-100-degree temps. We got our wish tonight -- with a vengeance. A massive storm front swept through, turning the skies a dark green-gray hours before dusk. Several hundred thousand homes are sans power tonight -- including ours; we got the last room in a hotel five blocks away from home in an area with power. Reports of damage across the region are legion: the new Busch Stadium was battered, but, hey, the Cards won a game that started more than 2 hours late; part of the roof was torn off Lambert International and littered across Highway 70; windows blew out of downtown buildings; trees lie scattered across the landscape.

Coverage: Post-Dispatch; KSDK; KMOV photos.

A shout-out to The Daniele Hotel in Clayton, which which quite literally provided shelter from the storm, Ditto for its can-do staff. They kept the restaurant open and even insisted on making us side dishes to serve with the chicken we'd picked up for dinner as the storm began. Almost as important as the food, they have free WiFi.

Oh, about the temperature. It dropped to 73 degrees durng the storm ... and will start climbing right back up tomorrow.

StaciDKramer's OPML blog

Be Careful What You Wish For