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It's like the bat signal is back, only for rain
By adamg on Thu, 06/04/2020 - 10:48pm
![Old Hancock beacon is steady red](https://www.universalhub.com/files/styles/main_image/public/images/2020/steadyred.jpg?itok=5rFRo2HB)
Maureen O'Hara was startled to look up this evening and see something other than the steady blue the Old Hancock weather beacon had been locked into since the start of pandemic times. Anybody need a refresher on the rhyme?
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Oddly enough, it went to
Oddly enough, it went to flashing blue at 11:00.
Steady blue...
Steady blue, clear view
Flashing blue, clouds due
Steady red, rain ahead
Flashing red, snow instead*
*if flashing red in the summer, the Red Sox are cancelled
... and yet, at midnight, it
... and yet, at midnight, it’s back to steady red.
Strange times.
It's a charming tradition,
but that bit of doggerel is a terrible mnemonic.
Perfectly clear and helpful
I could only ever remember
Steady red
Something ahead
Flashing blue...
Fuck you
Magoo sez.
Nanananananananananana Magoo man. Hark Magoo spies the flaming light of distress in the fair city of Hancock building. Magoo shall descend upon said city and bring justice and peace to those in distress. Magoo.
How about the Logan control tower
Any update on what that was blue last night?
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Holy
Illuminated meteorologist Batman!