The story of the event was the snow conditions, as well as questions about judging. Livigno received multiple inches of snow in the days leading up to the final, even forcing the qualifying round to be moved up a day to compete before the snowstorm. The new snowfall made the course run slowly for the finals, with riders struggling to go fast enough for big tricks.
Please, no. Please, can we have football still be football and not tinkered with until it is some algorithm-based product designed to maximize flashiness for the attention-deficit crowd? Can football, for all its brute violence, remain a thinking person's game, where strategy and decisions and variables and a million little things still matter, including snow or wind or rain or sunshine or calm or, who really cares?
"I don't think it's the product," says Brian Lowit, the owner of Mount Desert Island Ice Cream in Mount Pleasant. "People are just like, 'I'll stay cooler by staying in my house.'"
This natural event, when vast numbers of winged ants, known as alates, take to the skies at once in search of mates from other colonies, could be one of the most prolific for years.
"Given the ferocity of recent storms and the damage that extreme weather can inflict on people's homes and property, it is no surprise that storms now account for nearly one in five of home insurance claims."