slorydn1
24th August 2011, 07:12
Due to the fact that I am facing down the barrel of what's forecasted to be a landfalling Catagory 3 Hurricane I've been a tad busy the past couple of days at my real job. No worries, I don't believe that the core of the storm will come through my jurisdiction, although if the current forecast track and intensity verifes we will experience catagory 1 winds and some storm surge here in New Bern,NC.
Because of that, and the "earlyness" of the truck race (Wednesday night) I have already posted the Pickems threads for our manual pickems on the Nascar Games subforum for the upcoming races at Bristol. I have last weekends races partially scored and will post the results for both weekends (all 6 races) at the same time next week.
Im kinda pissed, because this weekend is my third most favorite weekend of racing for the year, what with the Bristol Night Races in NASCAR and Spa in F1. Its looking more and more like I'm gonna be stuck at work the entire weekend from Friday night until Sunday night, at the very least.
Enough of that. To my racing buddies farther up the NE coast PAY ATTENTION:
The situation is setting up to be very bad for a bunch of people not used to hurricanes from the Delmarva penninsula all the way up through the NYC Metro area and on up into New England. I'm talking Hurricane Agnes (1972) or the 1938 Long Island Express kinda problems for y'all up that way. Im sure there are older members of your families who would love to tell you all about those historic storms. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be careful around downed power lines, and if you are not familiar with the area's most prone to storm surge/flooding where you live FIND OUT. NOW.
Like I said, we are used to dealing with that around here, we'll be ok for the most part. It's those of you further up the coast that haven't had to deal with these kind of storms very much that I am very concerned about. This will NOT be like a lil nor'easter that you are used to dealing with if the forecast track and intensity plays out.
You can find out alot of what you need to know at:
www.nhc.noaa.gov (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov) or at your local National Weather Service websites (if you are not sure how to get there the best bet is to go to the main page at www.nws.noaa.gov (http://www.nws.noaa.gov) then click on the area that you live on the map).
Stay safe y'all, PLEASE!!!!
Because of that, and the "earlyness" of the truck race (Wednesday night) I have already posted the Pickems threads for our manual pickems on the Nascar Games subforum for the upcoming races at Bristol. I have last weekends races partially scored and will post the results for both weekends (all 6 races) at the same time next week.
Im kinda pissed, because this weekend is my third most favorite weekend of racing for the year, what with the Bristol Night Races in NASCAR and Spa in F1. Its looking more and more like I'm gonna be stuck at work the entire weekend from Friday night until Sunday night, at the very least.
Enough of that. To my racing buddies farther up the NE coast PAY ATTENTION:
The situation is setting up to be very bad for a bunch of people not used to hurricanes from the Delmarva penninsula all the way up through the NYC Metro area and on up into New England. I'm talking Hurricane Agnes (1972) or the 1938 Long Island Express kinda problems for y'all up that way. Im sure there are older members of your families who would love to tell you all about those historic storms. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be careful around downed power lines, and if you are not familiar with the area's most prone to storm surge/flooding where you live FIND OUT. NOW.
Like I said, we are used to dealing with that around here, we'll be ok for the most part. It's those of you further up the coast that haven't had to deal with these kind of storms very much that I am very concerned about. This will NOT be like a lil nor'easter that you are used to dealing with if the forecast track and intensity plays out.
You can find out alot of what you need to know at:
www.nhc.noaa.gov (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov) or at your local National Weather Service websites (if you are not sure how to get there the best bet is to go to the main page at www.nws.noaa.gov (http://www.nws.noaa.gov) then click on the area that you live on the map).
Stay safe y'all, PLEASE!!!!