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Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

Elbert Hubbard

Monday, May 3, 2010

25 Tips On How To Plan A Shitty Race Trip

  1. Plan on going to the wrong town.
  2. Read the e-mail from promoter telling you the weather was forecasted worse last year.
  3. Actually believing #2.
  4. Driving into rain for 4 hours.
  5. Pay attention to where the storm chasers go.
  6. Don't pull over when everyone else is.
  7. See how far you can drive with wipers at full speed, unable to see anything.
  8. Making great time to wrong city.
  9. Decide to make up time through a 'short cut'
  10. Drive back into storm.
  11. Don't stop because Sheriff tells you too.
  12. Disobey order to get out of vehicle from #11.
  13. Take a pass on going in the McDonald's restroom with 50 AreKansasians to die.
  14. Watch the tornado pass less than a 1/4 mile from you.
  15. Then realize you have to follow the path of destruction.
  16. Drive after a tornado hits 'mountain' roads.
  17. Figuring out it took an hour to drive 27 miles through #12 after #1o.
  18. Have reservations at Mold n Rust Inn.
  19. Listen to the death toll from the 'city' right through that there crest.
  20. Try to sleep after the weatherman states more severe storms can hit area.
  21. Waking up after several Sheriff/Police turn on sirens through town.
  22. Throw your phone after alarm goes off.
  23. Don't race after all the shitty things that happened to you.
  24. Get your rack pumped by town crazy as self serve attendant(in training) pumps your gas.
  25. Answering all the questions to why YOU didn't race.


The beginning of the fun

Amazingly this isn't a motion shot. That's how hard the wind was blowing.

Can't see anything I might as well take a photo for postmortem

Yes it did become calm before the true shit hit the fan.

1 comment:

Paul Warloski said...

At least you have a good story to tell...