• Meteorological and GGR •
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Over my time anchoring the club (beginning 2017), there have been a few events that have had impacts, both greater and lesser, on the GGR and its members.
When 2021’s Hurricane Ida swept through, no one bothered to show up. I did make a good-faith effort to get to the store just to say I did my job as the (volunteer) club anchor. It’s just as well that I didn’t make it, JRC Keith said they closed early anyway. The post I wrote features the river at the bottom of my street that I would have had to ford to get there.
On the other meteorological extreme was 2023’s Canadian wildfires. In that case the event was the Sunset 5K and the weird heavenly haze blanketing the sky. Here’s what I wrote about that. In the same vein was 2025’s local SPS fire. There was no picture of that event, but here’s what was in that week’s Run Report: “Yes, there were pockets of unpleasant chemical smells, but running definitely meant exposure times were minimal. As GGR’s resident medical professional, Jackie provided all the assurance the buddies needed. I joined them at Human Robot afterward for food and beer, where the only smells were very pleasant.”
Relatively speaking, this past Wednesday featured events only quasi-apocalyptic in nature. Here’s what Jim-var of the variations o’J&J texted to me and Jay-var an hour before our scheduled programming: “You may want to pick a non-5K route today. There’s a fire at Jenkintown train station. How do I know this? Well, technically, I don’t. I’m only relying on what the Septa employee on my train just announced to explain why we’re sitting ‘indefinitely’.
Not to be outdone by himself, here’s what Jim-var said successive moments later: “We’re moving again. Apparently a train caught fire. Nothing too dramatic though.” “Ha! Now my train is being evacuated into the storm because of a fire.”
Jason apparently did want to outdo him because he jumped in: “In other biblical news: my street just turned into a river!” Train Dave, who lives the next block over experienced his own version.
Jim closed out by reporting that a tree fell on the tracks just after his train passed to reach Jenkintown Station.
He did not come to the running store for our weekly run. Neither did Jason. Neither did TD. Nor anyone else. I did, just to say I did my job.
–CtCloser (Calvinthe), “Negative split or positive splat” #dothedue
FINE PRINT ¶Text and photos (unless otherwise stated): Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (CreativeCommons.org). ¶Cross-posted: (1) Facebook JRC Growlers Group Run (2026’05’27’W Run Message), (2) GGR email list, (3) Cerebruns by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Cerebrun with added caption and enumeration.
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