I'm driving up from Florida to Charlotte tomorrow afternoon for work. Car will be in tow so I can just head down to CMP on Thursday. I heard the shelves are already bare up there so we just hit the store for all our essentials. Most importantly, the beer and booze. I don't know about SC, but down here in FL when a state of emergency is declared, some counties ban the sale of alcohol.
We got a ton of gas cans loaded up in the car that we will fill, if it falls off the trailer it will be one hell of a fire ball. I need to make sure i can get out of there if i have to. Gas is usually in short supply. My buddy tells me that some highways are turning a 4 lanes into one direction starting and noon tomorrow for evacuation. This will be interesting. Check your routes before you go so you don't get caught up in that shit trying to go against the flow.
My wife said I'm crazy. She's right. Instead of running away from a hurricane I'm running into it. To race a heap of crap, in the rain, in the wind, in the flooding. All in the name of sport. Because I want that bag of nickels, and I wanna drink beer, and tell lies, and go as fast as I can without killing myself, and I'm obviously a glutton for punishment. Oh, and I like it WET?
For all y'all in the coastal areas, be safe, I would stay and protect my family and property over going to race. Hell my wife wouldn't let me leave home to go race if a hurricane was gonna hit my house. Who else is gonna pull start that generator?
Like said earlier, if the race actually does go on it will probably be complete misery. But hey, I've worked too long and hard to give up now.
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'83 Toyota Corolla #5
Winner, Class C, Yokohama Good Try, Road Atlanta 2018