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Re: Racers stuck

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Subject: Re: Racers stuck
From: Ken Winters <kwinter@frontiernet.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:16:32 -0400
Jon and racers
We crawled into Wamsutter on the ice at 9:00 pm friday after leaving the
salt at 3:00.
Spent the night on the gym floor at the school. Going to take weeks for
the sore spots to go away. Made it to Rawlings at 9:00 am. All roads
closed. Must have been 3:00pm when the gates went up for 220 northbound.
The 120 miles to Casper was a SOB. 4 to 6 inches of packed snow and ice,
blowing snow, 0 visibility at times. Got to Lusk and the roads were dry
and it was on home to southwest minnesota. Would do it all again to see
another pass like the burkland streamliner. 438 with 450 out the
back.WOW. We happened to be at the 3 1/2 mile for it. By the 1/2 mile
you knew it was going to be flat out fast. 
Hope everyone makes it home in one piece.
Ken Winters ( refreshed on my winter driving skills )

jon amo wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
> USFRA meet was good, but meet isnt over until everyone gets home safley.
> Team Amo, Team Elves, and others possible with Keith Turk and John
> Beckett are stuck around Rock Springs WY for a closure of I-80.  This
> highway has been closed for 2 days now with thousands of truckers and
> stranded motorists. Rawlings 100 miles east of Rock Springs is running
> out of food with more than 2000 motorists stranded.
> The snowfall there has been "said" to have made drifts across the
> highway of 8ft, that is rumored dont know of its true. But what I can
> tell you is that we are stuck on this hell with no where to go.
> 
> Jon and Joe Amo (stuck with thousands of motorists, and what if we hook
> up our nitrous system to the truck and plow thru those drifts)

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