The storm after the storm
Published 8/6/2008 by BY GORDON WITTENMYER gwittenmyer@suntimes.com at Chicago Sun-Times :: Chicago Cubs ::
Forget the rain. Why wasn't the twice-delayed Cubs-Astros game Monday called when lightning continued to flash near Wrigley Field in the late innings, if not when tornado sirens went off hours earlier?
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