Nasty weather is nothing new to Midwesterners, but the storms that buffeted KC in May sent working downtowners scurrying underground for the first time in recent memory. Among the local photographers scanning the skyline for funnel clouds was Scott Cook, who snapped a shot of the loop on a particularly ominous day. The green sky reminded Mark Kelly of the climactic scenes of Ghostbusters, so he used Photoshop to resurrect the classic 1984 comedy's Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. To paraphrase Bill Murray: "He's a sailor. He's in Kansas City. We get this guy laid, we won't have any trouble!" In a month of wet, windblown weariness, coming out of the basement to find that image was just the right tonic.
