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Old 01-08-2005, 5:49 PM
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It never rains in Southern California
But it does snow. There is some Club racing here next week.

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Re: It never rains in Southern California
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But it does snow. There is some Club racing here next week.
You call that rain? That looks like April and May around here . . .
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That should make for an interesting race.
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Re: It never rains in Southern California
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You call that rain? That looks like April and May around here . . .
no he called it snow. but thats Nov-Jan here.
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Re: It never rains in Southern California
No, abtech and I call that rain, everyone else mistakenly calls it snow. If it can't be plowed, it ain't snow, right? Heck that looks more like June or July around here, maybe some parts of Australia also in June or July.

All that's needed is rain gear coderedcbr and you'll be good to go! Just be certain your tires are warm before leaning.
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Yeah, this is supposed to be the "perfect storm". 3 fronts, from the arctic, Hawaii and the Gulf all combining over CA. For the "perfect storm", I'm not real impressed...
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Old 01-08-2005, 8:01 PM
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Yeah, this is supposed to be the "perfect storm". 3 fronts, from the arctic, Hawaii and the Gulf all combining over CA. For the "perfect storm", I'm not real impressed...


It's God's judgement on California, or Michael Moore.


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Re: It never rains in Southern California
All I know is I am getting a hell of a lot of work done on the inside of my house lately
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The only time they called a race for weather in Michigan was when they had lightning hit the corner workers shed in turn 1 at Grattan and once when there was "too much" ice in the hairpin.

There is a pic in the office at Grattan of the Team Chicago race school from the early 90s and we were all standing on hotpit lane on top of about 2' of ice. We ran 30 some sessions that weekend.
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There is a pic in the office at Grattan of the Team Chicago race school from the early 90s and we were all standing on hotpit lane on top of about 2' of ice. We ran 30 some sessions that weekend.
How is that possible?! Even if you meant 2 mm?
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How is that possible?! Even if you meant 2 mm?

Went on track with tire-warmers still on tires.
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No, abtech and I call that rain, everyone else mistakenly calls it snow. If it can't be plowed, it ain't snow, right? Heck that looks more like June or July around here, maybe some parts of Australia also in June or July.

All that's needed is rain gear coderedcbr and you'll be good to go! Just be certain your tires are warm before leaning.
If I do go out it will be just to watch I'm only doing #5 GT-GP races and the 250/50 with WSMC .

Now how do you put snow chains on a 929?
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If I do go out it will be just to watch I'm only doing #5 GT-GP races and the 250/50 with WSMC .

Now how do you put snow chains on a 929?
See ice racing, spikes in tyres, not chains round tyres.
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Man, sounds like you guys have had it rough down there. It's rained lots here too, but we're not the desert so flooding is pretty rare. (although I remember watching cars float down our street when I was a kid)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e_us/storm_rdp
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Just heard on CNN that you've received over 19 FEET of snow in the mountains with max wind speeds over 160 mph.
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If it can't be plowed, it ain't snow, right?
damn right. I love when they bring out the salters and put down as much salt as there is "dust" on the road. They have this new stuff around here now called salt brine I think. Basically just a really salty solution that they are gonna use before it starts snowing. I haven't seen them use it yet but in my opinion its just a quicker way for cars to rust and rot. If people just learned to drive properly we wouldn't need all that crap.
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Man, sounds like you guys have had it rough down there. It's rained lots here too, but we're not the desert so flooding is pretty rare. (although I remember watching cars float down our street when I was a kid)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e_us/storm_rdp
I'm two over hours away from the track down in Orange County but we are getting a lot of rain too. I was going to paint the garage this weekend, but I can put all the stuff out side.
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Been pisses here for the last two weeks. Like a cow on a flat rock.

Crap needs to come to an end.


Been 3 slides in the last 48 hrs combined with a tornado watch?
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Been pisses here for the last two weeks. Like a cow on a flat rock.

Crap needs to come to an end.


Been 3 slides in the last 48 hrs combined with a tornado watch?
33° and calm as can be here
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How is that possible?! Even if you meant 2 mm?
We were standing on 2 feet of ice and snow, not riding on it (it was taken on hot pit lane). The track had a rather small "racing line" between the snow and ice
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33° and calm as can be here
Another day and it'll be in the 60s and sunny here.

We did have 3 inches on the ground on Fri. Base, schools etc shut down... Being from MN I found this quite funny. It was all melted by the evening.
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Just heard on CNN that you've received over 19 FEET of snow in the mountains with max wind speeds over 160 mph.
I hope they meant 60 mph. That sounds more like a tornado !!
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We've just had a very windy period in the UK too, and more to come. Wind speeds of 60-70 everywhere and top recorded gust of 160mph in Cumbria.
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