UPDATE on Wednesday...I really love this picture from last year's airshow, complete with man, beach and fighter jets. If anyone gets any similar pictures from this year's air show today and wants to email them to me at arosenberg@phillynews.com, and I'll be glad to post them on the blog. Although I have contacts who will be floating out in the ocean on a hobie cat off the coast of Ventnor to watch the action, I'll be in Sea Isle, a safe distance away...
It's Air Show week at the Jersey Shore, and that means, lots of seemingly close calls at the beach beginning yesterday, resuming this morning with a vengeance (I've been startled a dozen times already today by the noise of the practicing jets circling over my house, reflexibly ducking). The first year they did this, people were terrified by the unexpected practice runs that started on the Sunday before. I swear, those jets flew so low I think they clipped the basketball net on my garage. It's not really my cup of tea, this fighter-jet-for-show thing. But, I've learned, people love this stuff, people near and dear to me, even, and hundreds of thousands will no doubt pack the beaches and boats around Atlantic City on Wednesday as they've done the last few years. As for me, and my nervous pooches, we just huddle inside, where it appears to be safe. More information is here. Photo credit and more photos are here.
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