Deluge - Bad Timing

A short time ago, I walked Geoff to the track, when he went to the Nationwide Cup 300mile race, so that I could use the rest room. While I was in the rest room, the cloudy sky just opened up and it started totally pouring rain. By time it let up enough for me to walk back, our RV's open vents had dropped water onto our TV which is now not working. We use a flat screen on a wheeled cart in the RV. I can't believe that I was gone for only a few minutes and that happened. Oh well. Maybe when it dries out, it will start working.

Meanwhile, I'm it's more or less stopped raining but I'm sure there will be quite a delay in the running of the race. I'm sure Geoff will have a good time and lots of stories to tell me when he gets back to the RV later tonight.

Geoff: Wow, that was close. I almost had to go back to the RV for a change of clothes. The skies opened up, as Ellyn described, just as I reached the entrance to the area under the grandstands. It was packed with people and there were gofl carts trying to move around under there too.

The track was soaked but the rain stopped and the race started about 1 1/2 hours late. About 11:00 and 170 laps down out of 200, it started raining again. At first it looked like it would just be a little and they could restart but then it came down harder and they called it about 11:30.

It was fun being there though. There is nothing you can see on TV which is like sitting in the stands and feeling the thunder from those 43 engines racing by at nearly 200 mph. I felt a little bad though for an older woman sitting near me who came with one of her children and who obviously could not tell what was going on. She did not stand for the restarts, which she probably could not have seen anyway because she was shorter than those around her, and did not appear to be able to tell which car was which even if she could see them. Whenever I looked over at her, she looked bored and deafened, since she was not wearing any ear protection. Heck, I was following it and had my scanner on, and I could barely tell which car was which.