On Monday, May 16, 2005, at 09:57 PM, Wester Potter wrote:
> What Hugh's pictures don't show is the Salduro Dike. When we went by
> early Saturday morning on I-80 I was struck by the amount of water
> inside the dike in front of the viewing area and also the height of
> that water compared to the dike height. Near the freeway there's only
> maybe three feet of dike showing above the water. From the canal that
> is used to mine the salt flats, at about mile marker 14, to a mile
> west of the Salduro Dike the water is very high. There is lots of
> water right up to the freeway fill. The immediate area at the bend in
> the road where we have Salt Talks is not under water but it is VERY
> muddy. Perhaps we were just too early in the morning (6:30 Mountain
> Daylight time) but the Mexican restaurant at the truck stop was
> closed. I'm hoping it was just the early hour.
>
> I will be posting a couple of pictures from the Nevada Open Road
> Challenge and the Z2Z Challenge tonight or tomorrow. Rex Svboda ran
> his McLaren with Tom Burkland as his pit crew. Gene and Betty
> Burkland were Course Workers. We had a great time visiting with them
> around Ely and Lund, NV as the days progressed. Tom reports that Rex
> learned a lot about the car running at the over 100 mph speeds, all
> good. When they were on the stretch of road where the Brits were
> running the electric car they jumped four antelope ... on the road ...
> and the Aussies think kangaroos at Lake Gairdner are a menace at high
> speeds!
>
> Wes
And, in the news this morning, I heard about "high winds" in Utah
blowing semis over and downing power lines in SLC. Maybe all the water
at the Salt Flat has now blown away... Anybody got better information?
Jon Wennerberg
Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
Marquette, Michigan
(that's 'way up north)
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