Wes
This may seem like a dumm question, but why can't WOS be postponed untill
next week...or some other time? Is it lease problems with the BLM, or
logistics of getting volunteers back again? It seems a shame as the Salt
will probably be even better when it dries out.
John
At 07:23 AM 9/21/99 -0600, Wester S Potter wrote:
>Sorry gang,
>
>On Sunday at 5:00 Bill Bernstraugh, who does a video each year of the
>Speedway Motors streamliner, had been on the course...said you could drive
>for miles and not even get salt on your tires. The storm hit at 5:15 and
>lasted for 35 minutes. It didn't put that much water on the salt and it
>looked like we could survive it but the run-off from the mountains is what
>got us. Monday morning at 8:30 when I arrived at the end of the road there
>was four inches of water over much of the salt surface. The first mile of
>the course was probably going to dry out but with that much water and a
>north wind that blows it around, we just couldn't see having a decent, safe
>course by the end of the week.
>Gary Allen called the meet...a gutty decision but one that had to be made.
>We made an attempt to call all the entrants using cell phones and I took the
>entry book and went to the pay phone at the truck stop and called. As you
>have heard we caught some folks before they left. We spent the day at the
>end of the access road. Gary LaRonge came out with Fred Larsen and their
>crew to see the flooding as did John MacKichan and Tim Shulz and several
>other racers who had traveled some distance to get there and help us with
>set-up. Everyone could see that we made the right decision.
>We were able to cancel some things, people were co-operative, but there are
>some things like the great looking tee-shirts, programs and even trash
>containers that were already in place and ready to go on Sunday before the
>rain storm.
>Ellen and Gary Wilkinson stayed in Wendover and will be at the end of the
>access road today as well.
>
>I guess it's next year on the salt flats!
>
>Wes Potter, USFRA Secretary
>
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