This is kinda a weird/crazy story. Over the weekend Miami got some rain/flooding and apparently The National Weather Service didn’t know how bad it was until they saw LeBron James post a few photos on Instagram. This actually lead to them issuing an alert! The power of LBJ.
Details and photos after the jump…
*PHOTOS ABOVE IN GALLERY*
Via Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News at The Lookout:
When LeBron James announced that he was taking his talents to South Beach in 2010, he didn’t say amateur meteorology was one of them. But on Saturday, James posted photos of flooded Miami streets to Instagram, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a storm report crediting the Miami Heat forward as its source.
“Miami ain’t always sunshine!” James wrote in an Instagram post that included a collage of photos taken while driving through what appeared to be more than a foot of water. “Mother nature ain’t nothing to mess with.”
The National Weather Service subsequently issued this alert:
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
820 PM EDT SAT APR 13 2013..TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON…
..DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE….
0215 PM FLOOD CORAL GABLES 25.73N 80.27W
04/13/2013 MIAMI-DADE FL PUBLICLEBRON JAMES, NUMBER 6 OF THE MIAMI HEAT, REPORTED
SIGNIFICANT STREET FLOODING IN THE CORAL GABLES AREA.
REPORT RELAYED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
