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LVD FLOODED
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:34 am
by 99GaGT3X00
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:57 am
by 3X00-Modified
crap! I wonder if thats going to mess up August...
IIRC they flooded over the winter too.
Will is it too late to swap locations to Epping... LOL
Look how close the damn river is to it in the first place... Bad idea.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=lebanon+v ... 8&t=h&z=16
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:43 am
by woody90gtz
WTF CHUCK!
How about Cicero near Syracuse?
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:00 am
by 3X00-Modified
They are still hoping to run Aug 5th, so we have 2 weeks for them to recover... We'll see how it goes.. Cicero is closer, but still 2 hrs 45 min away from Epping... so about 2 1/2 from Albany... Thats too far, Unless location was changed too... but with all the hotel reservations done already thats kinda hard.
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:27 pm
by Asylum
Epping has Ford Fest that weekend. Now THAT might be interesting...............NOT!
If Cicero is the Plan B the hotel would have to be changed as well IMHO if that is even possible at this point.
That said, LVD can clean that up easily in a few days if it stops friggen raining.
Weather today in Albany, 100% chance of heavy rain.
YIKES!!
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:42 pm
by 99GaGT3X00
haha Jon i think you got that backwards cicero is farther out.
if the location is being changed to cicero then im out. since im only gonna be coming for the drag day 10hrs of driving FTL. hell id just make the trip to epping.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source= ... e=UTF8&z=8
iceman;1486775 wrote:The photog at the track sent me more.. this one is taken right from the tower steps.
Haven't heard how long / how bad everything is but as you can tell it's pretty bad. They were calling people during the storm to come get their trailers quickly, and used some of their heavy equipment to pull them out. Like the article said though, some of those motorhomes across the street were flooded up to their windows
more here
http://s918.photobucket.com/albums/ad29 ... =slideshow
http://s966.photobucket.com/albums/ae145/DRACER1988/
dont know if people who aren't registered on GAOC.com can see this but heres the thread with alll the info. the guy ICEMAN has been talking to the photoguy at the track
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:43 am
by 3X00-Modified
Cicero is further from here yes... but remember I'm staying at the hotel in ALBANY... so from there Cicero is closer.
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:53 am
by woody90gtz
Cicero prides themselves on track prep too. It hooks WAY better than Lebanon ever dreamed of. Just make sure your drivetrain can take it...
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:04 am
by Asylum
Their website says they are racing tonight!! (Wednesday)
WooHoo!!
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:41 am
by 3X00-Modified
I'm curious to see how well the track held up.
I was watching that other post, and quite a few people with faster cars are worried that there may be some bumps in the track or some underlying damage they dont know about, and really would only affect higher speed cars.... If thats true they may start tearing into the track to fix it... but I hope there isn't anything wrong.
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 3:45 pm
by woody90gtz
3X00-Modified wrote:I'm curious to see how well the track held up.
I was watching that other post, and quite a few people with faster cars are worried that there may be some bumps in the track or some underlying damage they dont know about, and really would only affect higher speed cars.... If thats true they may start tearing into the track to fix it... but I hope there isn't anything wrong.
Maybe they'll just let slow cars like Berettas run!
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:35 pm
by 99GaGT3X00
something about the excavator leaving indents behind. wonder where on the track this happened.
i'll be up the tonight to see how it looks, i hope it's not gonna be a dustbowl with all the mud and dirt that was left behind from the flood. the track looked actually looked really good when i was there saturday except for some damage at the edge of the track where the barriers fell over. however the they were placing dirt track tires cut in half under the excavator probably i would think to protect the track from the tracks digging into the track BUT the tires dug imprints into to track, so i can only imagine how that will feel to a something with no suspension or worse yet a motorcycle. i can only hope he does something to fix that.
also lvd 2300 posted a bunch of photo albums one has a pretty good washed out part in it. must have been the pits and shutdown area.
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:11 am
by Cliff8928
woody90gtz wrote:
Maybe they'll just let slow cars like Berettas run!
Or Camaros, they don't need the whole track anyways...
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:04 am
by woody90gtz
Cliff8928 wrote:woody90gtz wrote:
Maybe they'll just let slow cars like Berettas run!
Or Camaros, they don't need the whole track anyways...
Sometimes they only use about 2 inches of it and get pushed back off...
Re: LVD FLOODED
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:09 pm
by 3X00-Modified
woody90gtz wrote:Cliff8928 wrote:woody90gtz wrote:
Maybe they'll just let slow cars like Berettas run!
Or Camaros, they don't need the whole track anyways...
Sometimes they only use about 2 inches of it and get pushed back off...
That seems to be quite common with 3400/5-speed beretta's too...