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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Bonneville General Chat => Topic started by: trimmers on August 06, 2013, 04:02:27 PM
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Wunderground is predicting thunderstorms in Wendover for today (08/06/13) and tomorrow with chances of precipitation at 20% today, 10% tonight, and 20% tomorrow. Let's hope they're extremely mistaken. After that, they're showing 0% chance of wet stuff through 8/15/13.
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20% chance it will means 80% chance it won't. :wink: Wayno
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And only 20% of the area might
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Nothing new
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Only 20%!! Be there or be pi$$ed off you missed it.
Sid.
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Im making the drive anyways. Even if it does rain, it wouldnt be the first time Ive stood around bullshitting with people at the races LOL
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It could be pouring rain in Wendover and the sun is blazing hot at the 5. It don't matter. 20% chance is nothing. See you all Saturday.
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Wunderground is predicting thunderstorms in Wendover for today (08/06/13) and tomorrow with chances of precipitation at 20% today, 10% tonight, and 20% tomorrow. Let's hope they're extremely mistaken. After that, they're showing 0% chance of wet stuff through 8/15/13.
Negative Nancy! :-D
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In 65' or 66' [ don't remember the right year ] we could not get on the salt till Thursday, so one of the events they held in town was the ' SCTA National Lo-Net Volleyball tournament ' held on the local tennis court
The racers were getting pretty bored and that helped a bit
G Don
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Wunderground is predicting thunderstorms in Wendover for today (08/06/13) and tomorrow with chances of precipitation at 20% today, 10% tonight, and 20% tomorrow. Let's hope they're extremely mistaken. After that, they're showing 0% chance of wet stuff through 8/15/13.
With average humidity of 11%, any wets in the next coupla days will be gone.
Here's their forecast for the main part of S/W, and I'm not canceling any plans till Thurs, when "She who MUST be obeyed" says my kitchen pass has expired until BUB.
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=zmw:84083.1.99999
(http://ttp://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=zmw:84083.1.99999)
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Trailer is packed... on the road tomorrow at 6:30 am
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Trailer is packed... on the road tomorrow at 6:30 am
Hey, Randy! I'll be leaving Boise about 22 hours after you. I'm betting you'll up your record again this year. See ya on the Salt!
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If your worried, just check accuweather. All the weather sites never agree. I check them all till I see the one I like. :-P
That being said, I've found accuweather to be the most accurate (guess they picked the right name)
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Here's the URL for the National weather service. I use it 'cause there aren't any commercials and it loads quickly -- and also because, for the most part, this is where the others get their forecasts. Give it a try and put somebody's weather URL in your browser for quick reference.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Wendover&state=UT&site=SLC&lat=40.8494&lon=-114.024#.UgJoXlOyw7A
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On one rainout we sat under the shade at the hotel in lawn chairs. More & more old time racers kept showing up and joining us. Pretty soon the stories started going. I have to say that it was one of the greatest days I ever spent there listening to the old timers stories and watching as they went thru page by page of one of Don Montgomrys {?}books on Bonneville & Dry Lakes racing. Cant recall the name of the hotel but it had a small covered parking area, it was right next to the fire dept
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Oh ya, that's one of the neat things about the racing game is all the stuff that wen't on in the past
One of my friends from San Fernando High is Don Brown who built & raced sprint cars, i'am at page 330 for Vintage sprint cars on the H.A.M.B. forum the has over 1000 pages for these cars
The Pics & storys are priceless and when I was running my Gasser in the 60's I would go to Ascot too to see the local guys and once a year the USAC troops would hit town and put on a great show too
G Don
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...and Glen Barrett's statistics, read over the CB while waiting for conditions to change in 2005. My personal favorite rain-out. Everyone sitting in team vehicles all over the salt hiding from the elements, but feeling like we were all in the same living room catching up on history of our sport.
It was cool to not have a single vehicle going down the course, (except for some kaibos that probably ran over the lights, preventing Glen from getting a time), but feel like we were still 'racing' anyway.
Thanks, Dr. Barrett
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Rain storms can be a hair raising experience.
FREUD
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Last year at the starting line the thunder storms and clouds came in from all directions. But the rain had not started. People standing around the bikes when suddenly everyone's hair started standing on end.
No one realized how dangerous this situation is. If your hair is standing on end, and you are the tallest point for miles around. YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Watch out and at least get inside a car.
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That would be Mark Eaton or me.
you are the tallest point for miles around
Glad I don't wear golf shoes out there and really assure a solid path to ground.
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Last year at the starting line the thunder storms and clouds came in from all directions. But the rain had not started. People standing around the bikes when suddenly everyone's hair started standing on end.
No one realized how dangerous this situation is. If your hair is standing on end, and you are the tallest point for miles around. YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Watch out and at least get inside a car.
That was a crazy storm.
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Just read a weather report at 5:30 that said a thunderstorm is going on now
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20 or so miles south of here according to the radar I see. Partly cloudy but bright and gently breezing here at the Quality Inn.
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Last year at the starting line the thunder storms and clouds came in from all directions. But the rain had not started. People standing around the bikes when suddenly everyone's hair started standing on end.
No one realized how dangerous this situation is. If your hair is standing on end, and you are the tallest point for miles around. YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Watch out and at least get inside a car.
That was a crazy storm.
Last year standing at the kilo club as a storm came in the Colonel said to me, if you feel a buzzing or your hair stands up LIE DOWN......
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The preferred method is to squat down like a baseball catcher, with feet close together.
Laying down could result in serious shock injury if ground currents pass down the length of your body.
In the vicinity of the lightning strike there are huge currents that flow through the surface of the ground trying to distribute the sudden high voltage potential change.
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/science_ground_currents.htm
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Wish i could find that pic of Bones at the start line from a couple of yrs ago
Looked like a holy man in a white fireproof undergarment and long white hair/beard standing on end
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The preferred method is to squat down like a baseball catcher, with feet close together.
Laying down could result in serious shock injury if ground currents pass down the length of your body.
In the vicinity of the lightning strike there are huge currents that flow through the surface of the ground trying to distribute the sudden high voltage potential change.
http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/science_ground_currents.htm
Well, there we go. Thanks for that.
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Goggles, I understand but I sure as h e l l wish you were going to be here.
New badges for the Kilo Klub members. Yours will be waiting.
FerD
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Looks like Bendover knows we're coming, the price of gas just went up 40 cents!
Sid.
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Diesel was $397.9 at Smith's, 396.9 at the Pilot, 499.9 at the truck stop at exit 4. Diesel at the exit 99 stations at Tooele was $405.9. I filled up in SLC at one of the cheapie stations for $383.9.
Gasoline showed $372.9 and $375.9 at the stations across from the Quality Inn.
Oh, and the Chevron in W. Wendover, hard by where the I-80 exit sends you toward Wendover Blvd, was $399.9 for gas and $425.9 for diesel. But then -- that station is always way high.
Should I check the prices again in the morning?
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Goggles, I understand but I sure as h e l l wish you were going to be here.
New badges for the Kilo Klub members. Yours will be waiting.
FerD
crack of dawn,hungover from Carmen's, kilo club, first run comes through, freezin cold, silence again...priceless.
How I wish I was there............................................have fun Pa.
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Jerry Kugel loved his rainstorm and lightning strike -- was onthe course when the bolt hit the ground to feedback into the timing tower giving him 1,000,000MPH time slip. He wanted to go to impound until Glen reminded him he would have to do a return run . . . .
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Should I check the prices again in the morning?
No -- but maybe move your decimal point left 2 notches.
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That's how it looks when you're pinching pennies Stan! :-D :-D :-D
Pete
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Yeah,
Stan.
I meant that's how many cents per gallon. Couldn't you figure that out?
Sorry.
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Oh so many days later - didn't happen.
DW
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I hit two rain storms on the way home, not much cleanup on the truck.