17 thoughts on “Happy 5th Derechonniversary, D.C!

  1. On the night of Washington’s hottest June day ever recorded, 104 degrees, an unexpected and invisible “wall of wind” slammed into the western suburbs of D.C. around 10 p.m. Known officially as the “Ohio Valley-Mid-Atlantic Derecho,” during the next hour, a curtain of wind pushing 60-80 mph swept across the Mid-Atlantic. Lightning was nearly continuous, and sheets of rain were driven horizontally against homes and vehicles.

    Other than all that, the evening was pretty nice.

  2. Hi from Ohio where we had 80+ mph winds from that thing while the national media completely ignored us

      1. Hah!

        I was gonna say: if he had even one endearing or likable talent or characteristic, you'd think we'd have heard about it by now.

    1. a). That's the same expression Alex DeLarge had in A Clockwork Orange.

      b). He's not wearing any pants.

      c). He will never master Stride with those appallingly tiny hands.

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