[Land-speed] Hurricane Ike & World Finals

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S.E. VA just went through a lightweight nor'easter the past couple days - lots of rain/road flooding but not much damage. But last week, the remnants of Ike brought down a 60' tall 14" in diameter poplar tree in our paddock.  
It should have taken out the tin roof barn, but somehow  did a pirouette, and  fell across the forward edge of the roof of a pony trailer where it curves downward in an egg-shell shape. Must be something to that,  because the tree broke across it  but left the trailer intact without anything more than just a big spot of marred-up paint and a fist sized dent that popped right out with a soft hammer.

Mark C 

---- John Szalay <jpszalay01 at insightbb.com> wrote: 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jim Webb" <jimwebb at nutsracing.com>
> >
> > So, the long & the short of it is that we won't make WF this year and man,
> > were we pumped. >
> > Jim Webb
> >
> 
> Glad to see that you road out the storm, OK,  & sorry about WF.
> 
> After Ike was through with you,  the winds (75MPH gusts) of Ike came to 
> Louisville KY and
> did a number on us, ( no rain, Just 4 hours of no stop winds) we got power 
> back after
> 4 days on the generator, the rest of the county took 11 days, Thanks to the 
> hard work of
> over 1100  very overworked utility  crews.
>  I've worn out the chainsaw and my shoulders & arms. Had to cut two trees
> out of the road to get to one daughters house, county crew removed one tree 
> to get to
>  the others place.
>  Tree behind the my garage ALMOST took out my neighbors race car trailer. 
> got caught
> in a fork within feet  of its roof. still waiting for the tree guy with his 
> crane to remove the
> rest of the tree, too big for me .
>  the guy down the road  lost his new motorcycle trailer.
> 
>  But like you, we were lucky..  no major damage and NO injuries to family.
> 
>   Luck to all at WF...
> 
>                                                    John & Brenda
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