I'm still in the room -- but reading that the water is only near Land's End is good. I got reports of one (only one) tipped Porta Potty, out by one of the timing towers -- but that's the extent of the damages. But at the Bend in the Road -- whooo, boy, did we have a storm to mess up Salt Talks. The wind starting kicking up seriously about 7.30, and at about 7.45 I announced we'd start the drawings and giveaways early because the weather appeared to be getting too bad for us. At 8 we felt a few raindrops -- and by 8.15 is was raining to beat the band and we had to quit. We stayed and about a half-hour later the storm was done -- but the ground had turned to sticky goo. It was great if you wanted to be taller than you used to be -- just walk around and the mud'd cling to your shoes/feet and sure enough, a half-inch taller every few steps.
So we put stuff away into the trailer, put the pickup into four-wheel-drive and still slid and greased to get out. The trailer is still there -- hope it's moveable today.
We didn't give away many of the prizes at all -- will draw a bunch of ticket numbers today and have the winners get the goodies when they isit our pit -- or something like that. We've got lots of food left -- I guess the local food bank will be the big winner for the 2011 Salt Talks picnic.
It's about 7.45 Monday morning and I'll hang up, get things put together and head for the salt. By the way -- I'll be getting daily reports on the records and qualifiers from Dan Warner, I suspect, and once I have that I'll post it. He hasn't yet had enough time in his busy day to find me. Things'll start mellowing out and we'll do what we can to let you all know what's what.
