The headlines say: heat will break, but no rain. Well, it rained. Just enough to show it could. In case you want more: put on your headphones and go here.
Ahhhhh. Right? Ahhhhh.
Then again, we don't want a deluge. Not like this.
Holy Jeezum Crow, as Aunt Patty says: that's incredible. Special effects in the pre-war movies often look hokey today - when you look at King Kong you see his fur move as he's repositioned between shots, and he always seemed out of scale when he was on top of the Empire State Building. "Deluge" destroyed New York City with a panache that rivals today's CGI
As with many old movies, it was thought lost, until someone found a print. "Metropolis," for example, gets recut every few years, it seems, because someone finds 40 feet of film hanging in the back of grandma's closet, and they have to reissue the Definitive Edition. (It gets better with every release, too - especially since they recorded the original score, which is remarkable on its own.) More on the movie here, including advertising art. Typical tagline: TEN MEN FOR EVERY WOMAN – and no law known except desire!
Well, desire, and the Hays Code.
(via i09.com, in case you think I'm passing this off as something I found on my own.)
SCIENCE It turns out we're hard-wired to expect a tingling sensation along your leg, which explains phantom cell-phone vibrations. Must have confused people for thousands of years before we got around to inventing the devices. More here.
