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Article: THE SUMMER THAT WASN'T HAMPTON ROADS IS SOGGY, TOURISM IS ALL WET, CROPS ARE SOAKED - AND ALL THAT WITHOUT HURRICANES.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2000
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Gloom is better than doom.
Sure, this summer has been wetter, cooler and grayer than normal. But yards are in bloom, tap water is abundant and - thus far - no hurricanes have come a'calling.
``What we have is a very green state,'' said Patrick J. Michaels, Virginia's state climatologist. And anyone who has lived through the parched, dusty, brown, fink-on-your-creep-of-a-lawn-watering-neighbor days of too little rain knows, droughts are bad news.
Still, where Michaels sees green, some whose livelihoods depend on happy, tanning tourists are seeing red ink. And sun-seeking visitors have simply been left often to sing the blues. Or go to a museum.