That's right, smoke on the water ... from fires in North Carolina. True enough. Wildfires down south combined with shifting winds out of the southwest blew smoke up the eastern seaboard and left even Jersey beachgoers in a haze of chokey smoke on Saturday. Felt a slight little burn in the lungs myself. That can't be too healthy. On the upside, the water was quite warm.
But if that was annoying, Father's Day weather at the shore had even Saturday's smoke fest beat. Was kind of like, you wake up, and it's cloudy. But before you can even say, Should we go see Zohan, the sun was peeking through, and your neighbor was on her way out to the beach. But before you could even really get it together to get out there yourself, it was raining along with the sun. Then, it wasn't. CBS3 ran a funny speeded up Charlie Chaplin-esque video from Ocean City of people leaving the beach, then returning to the beach, then leaving the beach, all day long. Around 4 p.m., it seemed like the decision had been made: deluge, thunder, lightning, exodus. Only, around 6 p.m., the sun came out again. My daughter and I finally made it into the ocean at that point. Now, at 7 p.m., it's sunny still, perfect beach weather.
In any case, whatever the wacky weather, the beach is certainly not the worst place to hang on Father's Day, though during an off-shore errand, I was touched by the sight of some dads buying sneakers for their little boys at Dick's. For my father, an old street baller from Brooklyn, there was no higher calling than buying his kids the perfect fit sneaker. Some more thoughts of my dad at the shore, in honor of the day, are here.
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Smoke on the water...plus, the most annoying beach day possibly ever
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The Downashore Team is a group of Philly.com producers. Some of us grew up vacationing at the Jersey Shore, and others came to appreciate it later. Either way, we know our Mack and Manco's from our Prep's Pizza, and we'll do our best to share news, information and musings from up and down the coast. Please do post a comment with your Shore thoughts, or shoot us an e-mail by clicking on the link above. (OK, so we're not really at the beach in this photo, but armed with the power of a good photo editing program, we can dream, right?) We're joined by Inquirer staff writer Amy Rosenberg, who as a year-round Shore resident, knows a thing or two about the scene, and the Shoobies.
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Comments (6)
you know what annoys me? who says downashore? retards, thats who.
Posted by Anonymous | June 16, 2008 1:26 AM
Posted on June 16, 2008 01:26
you know what annoys me? anyone that calls others retards!
Posted by Anonymous | June 16, 2008 6:38 AM
Posted on June 16, 2008 06:38
You know what annoys me?...Dan Uggla...
Posted by A. Nonymous | June 16, 2008 7:55 AM
Posted on June 16, 2008 07:55
Weather was perfect in Wildwood on Sunday.
Posted by Anonymous | June 16, 2008 10:18 AM
Posted on June 16, 2008 10:18
To Anonymous:
Please note downashore is perfectly fine regional dialect. In fact one can devine from it a slightly cleft palette and botox lips. Given the elongating and flattening of the "o" in "shore" one can further deduce the speaker to be from an area north of area code 201, has scabby knees, relaxed neck muscles, an intimate knowledge of prime time TV, and has had more men in them than a NYC taxi.
Fondly,
Sherlock Holmes
Posted by Bone | June 17, 2008 8:40 AM
Posted on June 17, 2008 08:40
I think "downashore" was supposed to be how people in Philly pronounce "down the shore," specifically Northeast Philly or maybe South Philly. But since I didn't name the blog, I can't say for sure. But I'm going to find out. Or maybe it just needs a new name.
Posted by amy | June 19, 2008 10:31 PM
Posted on June 19, 2008 22:31