Posted on 10/06/2011 3:00:42 PM PDT by glock rocks
I am presently of the opinion that the remainder of the races for the year should be held in Texas. It seems that having a Cup race in town automatically insures rain. We need it worsen the rest o’ ya’ll do.
Booyer is going with Mikie Waldrip?
We REALLY got hosed on the new 700m+ stadium here in Indy.
And the real sad joke is that the stadium they tore down (Hoosier Dome) was only 25 yrs old and the city OWED MORE ON IT than it cost to build originally due to second and third mortgages.
Gracious yes, you do need the rain. If I was retired, I’d wholeheartedly support your idea, but as it is, I miss all the Monday races, and ya just can’t tivo a live thread :o)
LOL...if only
I might see some rain this weekend.
I was in NYC about a year after 9/11/01. I went to the groud zero site and it was still a huge mess. Something you had to see to understand.
Maybe down here, they’re already pushing the incoming rain into next week.
Think they should shuffle the schedule and run all over the state. May have to run on dirt here and there, but that would be OK too. ;)
Amen. 3 years ago, on our first visit here, there were still posters up for those missing. They are gone now and the first 2 of the planned 5 towers are well underway.
you home yet?
Hosed? jaaa.
Ol’ Olie and Sven aren’t too thrilled building a 1.1 billion dollar stadium either, altho they could always take the roof off the Ol’ dome and flood it in the winter, stock it with fish and have ice fishing contests there instead of watching a floundering football team.
I hear it even rained San Jose while we are gone. we head back early tomorrow. Maybe I’ll catch some of the race if they get rain in Kansas.
It always rains in California, wait, that’s not how the song goes...
We have clouds but the wind is too strong to let the thunderheads build. The old infamous wind shear that protects us from hurricanes is now blocking any chance of rain.
I see it’s raining somewhere in Texas!
I flew out of DFW the week before the big crash. The pilot had to taxi from one end of the runway to the other twice before we took off. Experienced the same thing in N’Orlns once...
Damn Tork... there is more action on the Garden thread than this Dinosaur!
From ridesthemiles | 10/07/2011 6:02:30 PM PDT repliedI live in N Nevada. We got snow here Tues & Wed. It was supposed to warm up Thurs & today, but it is cold. Wind over the Sierra ridges were about 100 MPH when the storm went thru. I was scrambling to tarp my fresh hay delivery. Truckee & Mt Rose got snow. Hwy 88/89/50/431/267 were chains only & Interstate 80 was closed off & on for the 2 days.
A 100 mile horse endurance race, the Tevis Cup, was scheduled for July, but got postponed to Oct 8 because of a bad horse virus causing havoc this summer.
The start camp south of Truckee got over 8” of snow & wreckers spent all day Thursday pulling out the trucks/trailers that had gone into there early. The race usually runs from that base camp one way to Auburn, Calif, over the High Sierra at Squaw Valley on old gold miner’s trails. 100 miles-oneday-one horse-one rider-one way—24 hours to complete.
Now, due to over 2 feet of snow at the higher elevations, they are starting the race at the finish line—the Auburn Fair Grounds Sat 6:30AM—& are going eastbound on the usual trail which has been westbound for the last 55 years. Then they will run a loop near the 50 mile mark to get the leaders far enough ahead of the back of the pack riders so they are not running head on into each other on narrow trails. Then the riders will go the last 50 miles as normal on the trail & finish back at the Auburn Fair Grounds.
This is the hardest scramble the directors of this event have ever had & it should produce legendary tales for the future.
I tried the ride 3 times, but didn’t make it past the 85 mile mark, which was my own fault. I got scared & I pulled myself. I was running in the top 30 of 255 riders when I did that stupid move. Now the horse I trusted the most to get me thru that event is gone. I never will get another chance—too old & back giving me issues.
But—it is a Hell of an event!!!
For horse enthusiasts, it can be followed on website: www.teviscup.org all day Sat into Sunday.
We had a couple of showers today, nothing to speak of though.
Got hung up in Houston one day for three hours due to weather. Finally got out on the runway, next to go, and it hailed on us. Back to the terminal we went for another two hours.
Hope they got them all out,
I have often wondered why I missed the horse thing but I know they were rare in Western FResno County in the 30s and 40s when I lived there.
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