Although the slowdown started hitting the hottest of the country's markets -- cities like San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta -- in late April (the Nasdaq plunge) and in May (the Fed's half-point jump), the market in the Hamptons, out on the sunny, wind-swept tip of Long Island, seemed immune to the trauma.
The I. M. Pei design, jutting toward the ocean, dominates the coastline, and even in sunny weather winds tear across a plaza near the visitors' entrance.
Despite seven caution periods on a mostly sunny but wind-whipped day, Wheldon posted an average speed of 170.265 miles per hour, the fastest winning speed in this race since Rick Mears averaged 176.457 in 1991.
Still, the day was warm and sunny, the winds light, and in a particularly nice storybook touch, a pod of three bottlenose dolphins appeared, arcing in and out of our bow wake.
These were usually made of sun-dried bricks, stones, wood, marble or terra cotta and were installed in high and safe parts of buildings, usually on sunny and wind-shielded sides.
They are hoping for high temperatures, or at least sunny days without wind.
"For a lot of the players, we're used to playing in sunny weather, no wind, and you fly it in high.
"Obviously, this morning was probably a little bit more ideal, no wind, sunny and drier," Donald said, "but it certainly wasn't playing too difficult out there this afternoon".
If true, this not only solves Germany's local problem, it could also smooth the path to the construction of a European supergrid which would carry solar energy from the sunny south, and wind energy from the stormy west, to the continent's industrial heartlands.The difficulty the transmission companies face is that they need to have their cake and eat it.
