Todd Breakey wrote:
The only event that was cancelled *during* the event was a Laurinburg. It was a monsoon and you would lose sight of the cars as they entered the P because of the wall of water it kicked up. Naturally, the sun came out 15 minutes after the bus was packed.
Are you sure your memory is correct? There was an event in 2002 where a huge storm hit during the first heat, and as you said, the north entrance to the P flooded. I got a shovel and dug a small trench to drain it and the event continued.
My first visit to Laurinburg was about a month after joining the club in 1989. Auto-X VPs Ed Gelston and Zane Stephens put out a call for volunteers to help clean up a "great new site". The only fools to take the bait were another newbie, Tom Morris, and me. We met at the mobile home factory end of the site at 9:30 AM, in the rain. The place was entirely overgrown. Dirt and tall weeds in every pavement joint, large bushes hanging over the edges of the pavement. The runway was about 2/3rds of its actual width due to overgrowth. And the P was flooded. My first task was to wade in and dig a trench to drain the P, so I got to squish around in soaked sneakers the rest of the day while scraping and chopping and sweeping and scraping.
By about 3:30, we had the P, the taxiway from the P to the diagonal crossover, the diagonal crossover, and maybe 200 yds of the runway cleared well enough for Ed and Zane to start laying out a course. They seemed to spend an eternity studying the sweeper from the runway to the diagonal crossover. It was still raining, so Tom and I spent our time learning how badly an H-stock 323 will push in the wet.
At 5 PM, our club's resident veterinary professor, Susan Bunch, arrived in her Audi Quattro and brightly offered to help. Seeing that we were packed up, she said something about wanting to see what was at the other end of the taxiway. She came back a few minutes later, ashen faced, and remarked "You know, there's BIG DIP down there!".
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