Who's in for Barber? (Page 6 of 7)

So they predicted last years ice storm two weeks in advance, but did nothing to prepare and had hundreds of drivers stranded on the interstate leaving their cars abandoned as they ran out of fuel.  Good job Atlanta!

It was a question of release. Local TV weather have a vested interest in crying wolf at every storm. Thats not a southern thing, thats national. So people tend to ignore them the first 10 times. That storm was no exception, and when the feces hit the proverbial rotating air mover, everyone released every on at the same time. As a newly returned resident of the greater ATL, I don't care what the weather is, you send everyone home at once, its a recipe for disaster.

Regardless, I applaud Doug and his efforts to appease Murphy. Thank You!

I'm pretty sure they called at least 6 of the last two "ice storms of the century".  A broken clock is right twice a day.

Atlanta is all red clay.  Wet clay is probably the only substance more slippery than ice.

I'll be there, as will Judge Steve McDaniel.

The Duff Beer team will continue to pray for rain. We've got the rag on a stick ready to go!

This is what I had to deal with to get to Barber

Move 300' by 7'  of snow so we can get the car out of the garage. Not looking forward to getting it on the trailer..... The things we do for racing.

I always heard it as "slicker than snot", but I guess in both cases it depends on your level of hydration.

We went to Dixie motor speedway for the first time this summer to watch.  It rained on us for about 20 minutes just before the start, but they rolled all the competitors and tow trucks out to dry the track. Drivers that couldn't keep their velocity up they just slid down the banking to the center of the track.  Once it was all churned in they could race, but I got the sense that steering was based less on friction and more about the thrust developed by hurling mud out the back.

After the race we took a look at the rule book for the street car class.  4 pages of it were devoted to fighting in the pits.  We decided we weren't interested.

Yeah but let us know how it is when the mosquito's carry off your Lemons car then Hurricane Son-of-Ivan folds your house.

I'm just saying...any able bodied human can shovel snow but you would need flying monkeys to chase that car wafting away on the wings of organized swarms of mozies.

Catastrophic failure on the new build, I guess I'll be wrenching until we leave.

Spit take. Thanks!

Where is everyone?  I guess we win the first one to be here, 12:30 on Thursday.  The Gremlin is in the house!

Party at the Hampton Inn tonight.