We were supposed to be at Sunny South for the Friday night regular race event and Saturday night Bandolero national championship event, but hurricane Isaac had other ideas. Isaac was not a prticularly intense storm from a wind speed prospective but it made a tremendous amount of rain. Our wind speed here in Metairie probably got to 90 mph, but man did it rain !!!!! My rain gage goes to 10 inches and it was full on Thurs am. We have never had so much rain and so much sustained high wind for so long. I know we had wind speeds above 45 mph with moderete to heavy rain for at least 36 hours. I am so tired of seeing "sideways rain" if I never see it again it will be too soon. We were very fortunate in that we sustained no property damage, did loose elect power from 4:00 Wed morning to 10:30 am Saturday. Thank God for my generator, it ran everything referigerator/freezer, fans, plug in lights. Had enough extension cords running around the house to trip/hang half of the Italian army, but guess what NO A/C. Fri night it was 86 degrees in our bedroom. We had two fans working one oscelating and the fan we use to cool the Legend off in the pits. At that temprature they don't make enough fans to keep you cool. If you see me hug the generator in the back of my truck in the pits you will underatand why.
Some good news. Connelly had no school on Monday because of the storm, we used the day to "batten down the hatches" for the storm, then rolled out the racecar and started to work on setting the cross. We got it very close to where we feel it needs to be and rolled her back into the trailer just as the rain started, we feel very comfortable that we are close. The next race date is Sept 15 followed by the makeup dates of Sept 21 and 22 for the reg race date on Fri and Bando nationals on the 22, we can't wait. Come on out to Sunny South Raceway and see some outstanding racing put on by some very good young drivers. Sunny South is less than a one tank trip from the New Orleans area. You will enjoy the racing.
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