<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 6/22/2005 12:56:17 AM Mountain Standard Time, dmonteit@icehouse.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>More than 200 tourists were in the area, waiting for an eruption of the <BR>famous geyser at about 3:15 p.m. when a violent storm rolled in, Matthews said.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The only part of this I wonder about is the "200" figure. I don't know, of course, what the then-current prediction for Old Faithful was, but I know the previous was for about 13:38. Ordinarily, then, the next would have been in the vicinity of 15:15 -- the time of the lightning. Meaning that I bet that figure ought to be 2,000... I was on a tour yesterday and at about noon was taliing to the nats, including Katy Duffy, who agreed that the VC counter is showing mid-July crowds at this time. (My tour at Canyon/Artists Point at the same time, where we rushed to get back to the van due to a _great_ many bolts associated with a really black cloud.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>