Crime Map for Mount Vernon, 'Kick Their Tails' and the Number of the Day

It’s Tuesday, Aug. 13. Here are five things you need to know. Tell us what we need to know on the Patch message board!

1. Weather Forecast: Today brings the best chance of wet weather this week, with a 50 percent chance of rain and scattered thunderstorms. Temperatures begin cooling tomorrow for the rest of the week. See more at The Weather Channel.

2. You Said It: “They should go home. Give voters a chance to kick their tails.” One of our readers from Lorton responding to a question we asked about the annual August recess for members of Congress. Reports have noted this is the most unproductive Congress in recent memory.

3. ICYMI: Police: Man Arrested After Drunkenly Running in Traffic — This week's collection of police reports from the Mount Vernon Police District, with a map.

4. Number of the Day: 25,000. That’s the number of “Parrotheads” flocking to the Jiffy Lube Amphitheater this weekend for a Jimmy Buffett concert. It was enough to scare the Virginia Department of Transportation into delaying a planned bridge opening near the venue.

5.  Today…in History: Stainless steel turns 100 today, with the first reported production on Aug. 13, 1913.