baytown mud fest

[Ed Wright]

Jeff is my hero.

And, I don't feel so bad about not going to this one. Listened to my wife.

[Adub464Q]

In the interest of fair reporting, I was sitting underneath the tower, for round 4 of super comp, when it started to lightly spit. It did this for about 5 minutes. They had already been announcing that a cell of storms was on its way. The ground was barely wet but the radar showed a huge cell coming this way. The director sent everyone to the pits to load up for the night so everyone wouldn't be stuck loading up in the rain. This was all around 8:30 pm. It didn't rain another drop when I went to bed at 12:30 am. Yes, it proabably could have been run to completion last night but he made the call he thought was best. I personally would have liked to finish it up last night but I can live with the decision he made.

And this is where I applaude him, he then called each class up to the tower to decide when we would finish each class. I'm not too sure if other directors would have done this. Each class agreed on where the completion would be ran. I know super comp and super gas are at the Dallas div, and super street is at belle rose in a couple weeks. Those were the only classes in the room at the time. The only kink in completion is going to be allstar points. Every class will need to be run before then.

Austin Williams
464Q F/SA
9 S/C

[Brett C]

It's been bright & sunny in the Baytown area all afternoon!

[sammy pizzolato]

Originally Posted by Brett C

It's been bright & sunny in the Baytown area all afternoon!

Brett that is why i did not go. Baytown weather was to unstable.hard to make call's with weather like that.i wish i would have gone now.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by sammy pizzolato

Brett that is why i did not go. Baytown weather was to unstable.hard to make call's with weather like that.i wish i would have gone now.

I was wishing I had gone, until they called it last night.

[Larry Sullivan]

Originally Posted by sammy pizzolato

Brett that is why i did not go. Baytown weather was to unstable.hard to make call's with weather like that.i wish i would have gone now.

Want rain? Schedule an event. Want the rain to stop? Postpone the event.

The weather forecasters really blew this one...the forecasts went from a high probability of rain all day Sunday (it was still being forecast as 40-50 percent around midnight Saturday) to 10 percent or less chance of a late afternoon shower by 8 a.m. today. It rained sometime between midnight and 8 a.m., but by 8 the radar showed all the green stuff moving away from Houston, out over the Gulf.

[Ed Wright]

Oklahoma weather is the same way.

[voltdr]

I agree with Austin and Larry. Everyone was looking at the radar on their phones and wondered how wet we were going to get before R4 of Sc was finished. It's very easy to decide what should've been done. The spectators were already leaving because of the impending weather. No it did not rain until after midnight but at 8:30 on Sunday morning, it was raining and very wet, and cold, with not much sun in sight.
I think the decision was correct at the time, and the decision to find out how the racers wanted to complete the event the BEST way to handle a difficult situation.
Good Job D4.
Dan Foley
SC4698

[countrypuppy4865]

I think the best decision was made to reschedule based on the forecast. I don't think anyone would have thought it would have quit raining after they sent us back to the pits. However, as late as it was it would have become a problem for throttle stop and faster cars to get down the track. So, realistically, you probably could have only completed half of the classes that were left. We saw rain without anything on the radar, and we saw no rain with rain all over the radar. It just goes to show you how unpredictable mother nature is. Even meteorologists with years of experience, cannot accurately predict what the weather is going to do much of the time. Hats off to division director Trey Capps for working with everyone to reschedule. I wouldn't want to call any division other than D4 my home.