Over the years, I have run in many events in pouring rain. It's
uncomfortable, but doable. Lightning stops things quickly. You don't want to
fry a course worker.
We have had an event cancelled before it got started because the fog was so
thick at 11:00 A.M. we still couldn't see the other side of the parking lot.
It finally lifted at something like 3:00 P.M. And, one event was cancelled
after two runs due to a snow storm that was dumping on us in gigantic flakes
so big that they completely confused the timing lights.
Other than that, we will finish the event.
Larry Steckel
>From: jac73@daimlerchrysler.com
>Reply-To: jac73@daimlerchrysler.com
>To: autox@autox.team.net
>CC: firstcard@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: Emergency Weather
>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:21:39 -0400
>
>On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:10:10 -0700, "Lawrence Lane" asked:
>
> >Interesting.... Is the event rescheduled or just cancelled?
>
><Description of stopping an event in the face of extreme weather snipped>
>
>Generally, major weather like that is a transient thing -- a storm, or a
>line of storms, will pop up, pass through, and vacate the area. This
>usually means we're "down" during the storm itself, but as soon as
>conditions improve enough to get things started again, we're back "up".
>Obviously, lots of water can do evil things to your event electronics
>(timer photohead wiring in particular), so making sure that your
>connections are water-resistant is a Good Thing, and it'll sometimes
>obliterate cone markings and certainly any course outlining. We'll refresh
>the cone markings, but usually not the chalk or flour course outline.
>
>(the results of the latter can be interesting -- at Detroit Region's season
>opener this year, we had a rain squall come through at the start of the 3rd
>heat. What we saw after that was quite telling -- you could really tell
>who had defined the course in their minds by the cones and who had just
>followed the white lines when they were walking. DNFs increased
>dramatically in the 4th heat even though we added a LOT of pointer cones in
>an effort to help the situation.)
>
>Think of it as a "rain delay" -- I can think of only a couple of events
>cancelled entirely by extreme weather -- the Sunday activity at the Lubbock
>ProSolo this year, for example -- as opposed to delayed for 30 minutes to
>an hour or so.
>
>Jim Crider
>autojim@att.net
>
>
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