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Re: Maxton

To: "Chuck Rothfuss" <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Maxton
From: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:07:08 -0700
Thanks Chuck
Anything on the speeds.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Rothfuss" <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: Maxton


> Glen, List,
>
>    We got some "Maxton Horsepower" this weekend alright.  Saturday we got
in
> well over 200 passes, with a pretty good tail wind at times.  Sunday we
had
> to shut down a little early, since the wind was switching from straight
down
> the track to about 45 degrees from the left (out of the west).  Joe Timney
> got a little worried about how the tower was moving and decided it was
time
> to call it a day.  Anyone who was disappointed with the early closing and
> left quickly should be thankful.  Mother Nature showed us who was boss,
with
> a very ugly storm.  Brown, soil filled skies right out of "Twister", and
> some gusting winds that were strong enough to blow 55 gallon drums into
the
> woods like paper cups and tip over a tractor trailer near the airport.
> After the scary part was over and the skies cleared we had only minor
damage
> to the "Jim Biggs Memorial Timing Tower" and had solved the mystery of how
> rocks keep getting back onto the course.  They're blown there.
>
>    60 MPH tailwinds would sure have been interesting, but not when there's
> tornados in the area. (The field's drainage system was starting to look
like
> a pretty good spot to take cover, since it was dry, well below ground, and
> only a few yards from the tower.) Hope everyone else going home to the
East
> made it through alright.  We saw lots of towns without power on our way
back
> to the coast, and are still getting blown around pretty good here.
>
> Chuck Rothfuss
> Pole Cat Hollow, NC

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