"Among those who have remained despite the rain: clapping her hands is A.J. McCarron's mom, Dee Dee Bonner, and just to the left, his girlfriend, Katherine Webb," the veteran sportscaster said.
There is the crackling heat of the midday sun, the pummel of rain, the clap of lighting and the quiet of a new dawn.
As she descends from a horse-drawn carriage, straps a guitar over her voluminous coat and lays into the gospel classic Didn't It Rain, her listeners start clapping on the backbeat – possibly the first recorded example of that phenomenon in a land where mass clapping on the first and third beats of the bar had hitherto been a deadening ritual.
KUALA LUMPUR — Under a dark sky with lighting flashing and thunder clapping and torrential rain flooding the track on Sunday, officials red-flagged the Malaysian Grand Prix only one hour into the race for safety reasons.
I awake in my bunk and listen to the rigging clap against the mast; rain briefly patters on the deck but by morning the skies are clear.
Last year our family gathered in the cemetery, under a tent, with the rain pouring down and an occasional clap of thunder.
And it rained, and rained even harder, and lightning charged and the thunder clapped like celestial Maori drums as the boat rocked through the night.
Preceding it are ominous claps of thunder, but the rain doesn't begin to fall until I drive through the stone gate and pull up in front of Château de Riell.
A few things including building a DIY Theremin and a money spewing "Make It Rain" machine that spits out dollars when you clap your hands.
Looking for the rain gods in the clouds, one of the clowns claps ashes from his hands, representing a cloud.
