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Update #1: Dark Sky saved my wedding day.

Posted on November 1, 2011

First of all, thanks to all you awesome backers! We've just about reached the 10% funded point and things are really ramping up. Be sure to tell everyone you know (friends, family, therapists, that cute guy you see on the subway every day) about us!

Secondly, I'd just like to leave a little anecdote here:

I got married this past June. We decided to have the wedding outdoors, on the banks of the beautiful Connecticut River. Fearing rain, we got a big ol' tent to house the reception, but we really wanted the ceremony outside overlooking the river and were hoping we could keep the rain at bay with happy thoughts and magical incantations.

Unfortunately, I woke up the day of the wedding to find grey skies... Grey skies that gradually gave way to light rain... Rain that they forecasted would last all day.

Every time the rain would die down, I'd get hopeful, only to have that hope dashed with the precipitation's return. As the time of the ceremony approached, we had to make a decision whether to keep everything under the tent, or go ahead as planned. Everyone told us not to chance it and just have the ceremony under the tent.

Not so fast! Enter Dark Sky!

I'd been working on Dark Sky for some time, and it's been a prototype for more than a year. More importantly, I made sure the servers were running for the Big Day. So I grabbed my iPhone, opened up the app, and took a gander at the chart.

Despite the ominous clouds, Dark Sky reported that the rain would hold off for just under an hour... enough time to have the ceremony. So we rounded up a posse of groomsmen and had the entire area set up in 20 minutes. The ceremony went off without a hitch and we were back under the tent by the time the rain returned.

Dark Sky saved my wedding day!

-Adam

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      Brian L. Frye & Penny Lane on November 2, 2011

      That's what I'm talking about!!! You guys gotta send this link to wedding bloggers. Nerdy ones. They totally exist.

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      Donna Grossman on November 3, 2011

      Nice wedding story. Loved the accompanying picture.

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      joan traber on November 3, 2011

      Moving right along! You are now over 20% closer to making our weather reports more predictable.



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Adam Grossman & Jack Turner

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We're two guys, Jack Turner and Adam Grossman. We work as mild-mannered web / mobile developers, operating our company (Jackadam) out of an office in beautiful downtown Troy, NY. Visit our website, at http://jackadam.net

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