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As giant hail nuts were hitting my house yesterday, I had a couple of immediate questions: 1) How pissed are people who are walking home right now? 2) Oh no — does that dang Chihuly exhibit have inflatable emergency umbrellas that immediately blow up around the exhibit when shitty weather shows up? Because if not: crap time.
So, this morning, I went to the Dallas Arboretum to see if all the Chihuly stuff was okay. The guy at the gate said, “One of the pieces suffered some damage, but everything else is fine.”
And it was true. Somehow, even though there was all that giant hail at The Arbo last night, these huge glass sculptures seemed completely okay. I had to talk to the exhibit to find out how it weathered the crazy storm so awesomely.
Me: Hey, Chihuly Exhibit. I know you’re probably a little stressed out from last night’s storm– that must’ve freaked you out. I have a few questions for you, though, if you can handle answering them right now. How did it feel being out there in the hail storm, all fragile and alone? Chihuly Exhibit:
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Me: So– you feel like you came out of this storm pretty oka– Chihuly Exhibit:
Me: Wow. Okay. Not sure why your giant glass middle fingers have to be involved in this conversation. Rude. But — when you think about times in your life that you’ve been hit by hail–
Me: Ooooookay, we’re done.
Here are some pictures from this morning of the somehow completely unharmed-looking exhibit:
