About 2,000 people live here, in ramshackle trailer homes, weather-battered recreational vehicles and well-kept brick houses.
There was damage to the homes of the field workers and many participants, including chimney damage making fireplaces unusable, and structural damage affecting homes' weather-tightness.
And then they went home: weather forecasting was not 24/7.
Across Greater London for example, around 1,500 home weather stations fill the gaps between the ten official Met Office and Airport weather stations.
Rio's grey skies, perpetual drizzle and squally wind are the closest Team GB is likely to get to home weather.
A hybrid of "60 Minutes," "Wild on E!" and a Discovery Channel special, the show has now acquired a cult following -- not least because it sometimes comes off as "America's Most Amazingly Devastating Home Weather Videos".
These can be found on the Web at sites of companies that sell weather instruments, including Maximum Inc. (www.maximum-inc.com); the Weather Store (www.wxstore.com), a folksy site offering weathervanes and weather stations; and Davis Instruments (www.davisnet.com), which sells home weather stations, some of which can be linked to a personal computer.
Hikes at home Weather worries deter many people from taking walking holidays in the UK at this time of year and, to reflect this, Foot Trails (01747 820626; foottrails.co.uk) is offering some short trips which are based at cosy log-fire-warmed country inns.
The barometer read the same as my home weather station, so I'm confident that it reads accurately as well.
It also supports RescueTime (a desktop-based productivity tracker), home weather stations that track your surroundings and more.
