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For a desert, Tucson has been seeing quite a lot of rain the last few weeks. We had more this afternoon, but the protesters were on the UofA Mall during a break in the showers. I stepped out to lunch around noon when I saw them.
They’re out because Thursday (February 11) is the anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Green Movement plans to be out in force–and so does the Iranian government. Tehran Bureau has a preview of the night before. Andrew Lee Butters over at TIME has one as well. My personal prediction is that it will be big and bloody. Both sides have known this date was coming and have been preparing accordingly. Iran News Now and Enduring America will both be live-blogging throughout the day (at current time of posting, it’s just short of 9am in Iran). I know Andrew Sullivan will have posts throughout the day as well for The Daily Dish.
Just a sign of how involved I’ve become with this unfolding of events: for weeks I’ve been waiting for this day to come to see what will happen next, but up until last Saturday I had completely forgotten about the Superbowl.
By the time I walked back across the Mall for class at 2pm for class the protesters had vanished but the rain remained. It picked up its pace as the afternoon wore on. My professor for my class on Kubrick even let us out half an hour early on account of the lousy weather.
The sun broke through the clouds right as it was setting, lighting up a double rainbow in the eastern sky.
It lasted all of twenty minutes before the sun dipped farther, the light shifted, and it vanished altogether.