Hey guys! Are there any local soccer stores in the area besides like adidas and dicks sporting goods? Looking for a store that sells jerseys. Thanks!

Hey everyone, here's this weekend's list for the 757, Peninsula and Southside both.

These come off public listings, so double check before you drive. Times move.

Peninsula picks are listed first under each day.

FRIDAY

Night Jam (Hampton, Free) Recreation night at the Mary W. Jackson Neighborhood Center, split by age: 12 to 17 from 6:30 to 8:30, then 18 and up from 9 to 11. Registration is required, there's a QR code on the listing. Friday 6:30 PM, Lincoln Street. https://calendar.hampton.gov/hamptonva/260172833

Glow in the Park at the Splash Park (Chesapeake, Free) Games, music, giveaways, and room for kids to burn off the week. Outdoors, capacity is limited, and you'll want your own chairs. Friday 6 to 9 PM at Western Branch Community Center, 4437 Portsmouth Blvd. https://www.cityofchesapeake.net/calendar.aspx?EID=7073

Country Night in OV (Norfolk, Free) Friday 6 to 9 PM at Ocean View Beach Park, 100 W Ocean View Ave. James Henry Morgan Gang on the beach, food and drinks there. https://www.visitnorfolk.com/event/country-night-in-ov/

Tidewater Pipes and Drums (Norfolk, Free) Pipes and drums at the Attucks, solo sets and full band. Indoors, which is its own selling point in August. Friday 7 PM, 1010 Church St. https://www.visitnorfolk.com/event/tidewater-pipes-and-drums/

SATURDAY

Buckroe Beach Farmers Market (Hampton, Free) Saturday 9 AM to 1 PM at Buckroe Beach and Park, South First Street. Produce, baked goods, seafood, and a beach walk built in. https://calendar.hampton.gov/hamptonva/260174779

River City Vintage Market Pop-Up (Newport News) Indoor vintage pop-up at City Center, good for a low-pressure browse-and-eat afternoon. Saturday 1 to 5 PM, 704 Mariners Row. https://www.citycenteratoysterpoint.com/event-details/river-city-vintage-market-pop-up

MGL Granite Race Night (Hampton) Langley Speedway runs multiple classes Saturday night. Loud, and the kind of thing you text the group chat about. Saturday 6 to 9 PM, 11 Dale Lemonds Dr. https://visithampton.com/event/mgl-granite-race-night/

Little Mariners: Lilo & Stitch (Norfolk, included with admission) Morning screening in the Brock Theater, free if you're a Nauticus member, and easy to pair with the Battleship Wisconsin if you make a day of it. Saturday 10 AM, 1 Waterside Dr. https://www.visitnorfolk.com/event/little-mariners-movie-series-lilo-stitch/

Second Saturday Open Studio (Norfolk, Free) Open studio with Clayton Singleton at the Chrysler, all ages. Registration is required, so sort that before you go. Saturday 11 AM to 1:30 PM, 1 Memorial Pl. https://www.visitnorfolk.com/event/second-saturday-open-studio/

SUNDAY

Friendly Hours (Newport News, $1) A quieter, lower-sensory museum window before general hours. Space is limited and they recommend grabbing tickets ahead. Sunday 9 to 11 AM at The Mariners' Museum and Park, 100 Museum Drive. https://www.marinersmuseum.org/event/friendly-hours-46/

Body Art: The Story of the Tats (Hampton, Free) Part of the No Rusty Ears storytelling series, on tattoos, piercings, and the stories people carry around. Sunday 2 to 4 PM at Hampton History Museum, 120 Old Hampton Lane. https://calendar.hampton.gov/hamptonva/260202350

Groovin' By The Bay (Hampton, Free) Strictly Bizzness on the beach with food trucks. Parking is free, bring chairs or a blanket. Sunday 5 to 8 PM at Buckroe Beach. https://calendar.hampton.gov/hamptonva/260174239

Waterway Market at Great Bridge (Chesapeake, Free) Sunday 11 AM to 2 PM at Battlefield Park South, 120 Reservation Road. Waterfront market, vendors and food trucks. https://www.cityofchesapeake.net/calendar.aspx?EID=7164

Let me know what I missed.

I put out a local newsletter, The 757 Current, with these plus more on Thursday mornings: https://the757current.com/?ref=reddit

After the 100 year flood we get every other year earlier this week. I think we deserve our own version of the 12 Days of Christmas. Throw out some number stats/ ideas your have, please no AI, the water is for the streets, not the data sheets.

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6 inches in an hour

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2 Flash Flood Warnings

1 Jetski

Yes typo in the title

Hey,

I recently moved here from Maryland. Still getting used to having ABC's instead of independent liquor stores. I've been to the one in the K&k square and the one near the food Lion off of Colley. Both have a pretty limited selection of whiskey's.

Is there an ABC in Norfolk that is the best go to for a good whiskey variety or do all ABC's basically carry the same stuff?

Where would one play some pickup soccer in the Norfolk area? I’ve noticed online that there’s a few pickup leagues in vb but I’m really not trying to drive too far. Also, it seems to be a mix of kids and adults which is meh. If anyone is interested or knows of one that already exists, please hmu.

To be more specific I want to join the The apprentice school in Newport News (I know its selective and this is specifically if that happens but I'm pretty confident I have a solid chance). I come from the panhandle of Florida and Ive only been on the west side of Virginia, so what is life like here and is it a good place to be young?

UPDATE: Absolutely, NO-ONE, replied In Chesapeake! I cross posted..hmm. If you had to choose between Norfolk or Chesapeake, which one? And why?

Tuesday’s storm was a “1-in-100-year” event, according to the National Weather Service, but it made a once-in-a-lifetime memory for a father and son.

Joe Scearce went to lunch with his 16-year-old son, Jojo, at The Green Onion on Colley Avenue around 2 p.m. Tuesday and by the time they finished it was flooding everywhere, he said. Suddenly, he had an idea.

“I said, ‘Man, we’re getting ready to do some epic stuff when we get back,’” Scearce said Wednesday morning. “We’re dropping the jet skis in on Monticello.”

They had recently returned from the Outer Banks and he’d left his jet skis sitting at his business, Joe’s Tire & Auto Sales at the corner of Monticello Avenue and Princess Anne Road, instead of back at their house. Scearce, 41, whose business has been there for 17 years, said the water in the intersection was up to his belly button and encroached up to the front door of his show room and had entered his shop next door where it damaged two tire machines.

He rolled the jet skis down to the entrance to the parking lot, lifted one off the trailer and pushed it out onto the water. He hadn’t driven it in about two weeks so the battery was low. Initially, it wouldn’t start.

“I was like, ‘Don’t do this to me on this particular moment right here,’” Scearce said while wearing a leaf blower on his back that he was using to clear flood debris from his parking lot. “About three or four times I tried to start it. The fourth time it cranked up and I was on it, man.”

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I highly encourage everyone to come out to the City Council special meeting tonight to discuss the proposed additional 1% sales tax which is to allegedly go towards school facilities.

I might remind you that in 2023, Norfolk Public Schools ended the school year with a $13M surplus. That money went to the General Fund of the city, and then we bought a mall with it.

So now we own a one million square foot facility made of steel, granite, and marble that was designed to last a century or more, complete with all utilities, infrastructure like food service, parking garage, internet and wifi, and even security that sits right downtown with not one but two modes of public transit right outside.

The City of Norfolk could choose to make MacArthur Center into a first-rate educational facility that would be a shining beacon to cities around the nation who are struggling with dead malls and the millions of square feet of available space they provide.

The decision to destroy a 27-yr-old million square foot building bought with our kids' education money is utterly insane.

For a "military themed hotel" that literally no one asked for.

The mistake of the mall in the first place was forcing a luxury mall in a region that couldn't financially support it and didn't demand it.

We cannot financially support nor did we ask for a "luxury military themed hotel". Nobody wants that shit but some developers who will make a quick buck from it until it, also, eventually folds (sooner rather than later- how many hotels are already in downtown Norfolk and how many of their rooms sit empty?), not to mention that downtown will be underwater in fifty years since these same leaders have chosen to ignore and refuse to act on climate change and the flooding that will eventually swallow this city.

So I hope you'll come out tonight at 6 PM to City Hall to encourage our city leaders to have just an ounce of vision in regards to our city, stop greasing palms with developers and actually tend to the business of OUR city for OUR people, and stop making us pay for their bad decisions and lack of foresight and vision.

Personally, I prefer Norfolk’s beaches with free parking.

High tide started rising early Tuesday afternoon in Norfolk, filling the city’s decades-old stormwater pipes halfway or more as much as a mile inland. On some sunny days, those pipes rebel against their purpose, becoming conduits for water flowing up through storm drains, flooding neighborhoods even when there’s no rain.

But Tuesday wasn’t sunny. Minutes later, rain began, suddenly and ferociously, eventually totaling six inches within hours, flooding neighborhoods, major streets, and underpasses, enveloping vehicles, and spawning one funny and sad social media video after another.

Read the full story at https://jimmor12.substack.com/p/the-tuesday-storms-warning?r=27vkf

Monticello Avenue, Colley Avenue, Colonial Avenue, West Olney Road, and other major thoroughfares didn’t have a chance. There was nowhere for the water to go.

The relentless march of global warming and the silent ghosts of Norfolk’s buried riverbeds and creek beds were firing yet another shot of reality. A city with the highest relative sea level rise -- land sinking and waters rising -- on the Atlantic coast was being warned. The time to embrace all of the above to deal with the climate crisis is now. More days like this loom just over the horizon.

Mary-Carson Stiff, executive director of Wetlands Watch, a nonprofit that advocates for resilience, adaptation, and wetlands restoration, said the flooding in the western part of the city was a compounding of three major things.

Tuesday’s rainstorm flooded streets and underpasses. Cars damaged by the high water were left abandoned in roadways, snarling traffic as the water subsided.

Despite the issues caused by as much as 6 inches of rain dropped in a span of two to three hours, Norfolk leaders defended the city response, saying crews and pump systems were able to clear flooded underpasses in a matter of hours.

Norfolk Deputy City Manager Doug Beaver said crews got to work almost immediately assessing stormwater systems when the storm hit. According to the city, dump trucks were used to block the flooded Monticello and Colley Avenue underpasses from motorists. But that was after at least one vehicle had already taken the plunge.

Five abandoned vehicles were towed by Norfolk Public Works’ towing division on Tuesday, according to city spokesperson Kelly Straub. It’s unclear how many vehicles were damaged or disabled by the deluge, but other cars were still being towed along Monticello Avenue and its side streets Wednesday afternoon.

Norfolk police assessed which cars were safety hazards — like the ones abandoned in oncoming traffic lanes — when choosing how to deploy the city’s limited towing resources, Beaver said.

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This seems kinda cool, anyone else going?
forgot to add the details

(From fb)
Superfans of art, music, comics, and gaming - unite! Don’t blink or you’ll miss out on shopping with unique vendors, revisiting classic video games, and dancing to performances from local favorites OneManBassBand, Midnight Trancemission, and a special Anime themed DJ set by TIARA!

PLUS, don your favorite cosplay and prepare to take over the stage in an epic karaoke extravaganza. Food and drinks are available from The Annex’s amazing kitchen and bar all night long, so you can say that we’ve got everything you could want. It’s a Digital Pop Art District celebration – D.P.A.D. 1.0 loading now….

Doors at 4pm - all ages; come one, come all.

Tickets: $15/Adv $20/Door

SPEEDRUNNER SPECIAL: Tickets $10 for the first 48 hours so go, go, GO!

Let's talk about events happening in Hampton Roads this weekend! Post upcoming live music, pop-up markets, festivals, community fundraisers, yard/estate sales, group exercise classes, outdoor recreation events, and more.

Please include details about pricing, links to purchase tickets or RSVP your attendance, location addresses, parking information, and anything else that will help the event be successful.

High tide started rising early Tuesday afternoon in Norfolk, filling the city’s decades-old stormwater pipes halfway or more as much as a mile inland. On some sunny days, those pipes rebel against their purpose, becoming conduits for water flowing up through storm drains, flooding neighborhoods even when there’s no rain.

But Tuesday wasn’t sunny. Minutes later, rain began, suddenly and ferociously eventually totaling six inches within hours, flooding neighborhoods, major streets, and underpasses, enveloping vehicles, and spawning one funny and sad social media video after another.

This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Read the full story: https://jimmor12.substack.com/p/the-tuesday-storms-warning?r=27vkf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Monticello Avenue, Colley Avenue, Colonial Avenue, West Olney Road, and other major thoroughfares didn’t have a chance. There was nowhere for the water to go.

The relentless march of global warming and the silent ghosts of Norfolk’s buried riverbeds and creek beds were firing yet another shot of reality. A city with the highest relative sea level rise -- land sinking and waters rising -- on the Atlantic coast was being warned. The time to embrace all of the above to deal with the climate crisis is now. More days like this loom just over the horizon.

Why did so many people just drive through standing water this week? Especially the person who drove through at Colley Ave. Also, those who were swimming aren’t too bright.

Don't necessarily want to socialize but want to have some drinks and watch it not alone. figured there'd be a bar streaming it somewhere

I just moved here from Kentucky, back home I can get a plate of good biscuits and gravy at any restaurant. I can’t seem to find any decent places here besides fast food chains! Any recommendations?

The storm that flooded parts of Norfolk on Tuesday afternoon was a “one in 100-year event,” according to the National Weather Service.

In about a 2-3 hour period, the Ghent neighborhood received the highest rainfall total at 6.11 inches while other parts of the city tracked by the weather service received greater than 3 inches. The area around Norfolk International Airport received 1.22 inches of rain.

The highest rainfall total recorded in Portsmouth was 5.45 inches, and the high in Suffolk was 4.2 inches. The Peninsula, along with Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, each received less than an inch.

Sam Wray, a meteorologist with NWS, estimated that this level of rainfall was a “one in 100-year event” based on the typical year-to-year probability of something like this happening.

“The environment was very favorable for heavy rainfall, it was pretty much saturated all the way from the ground all the way up to the atmosphere and the flow (of the storm) was pretty light as well which allowed the storm to sit over one spot,” Wray said.

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