Haw cancellation

[Valuist]

I handicap the entire Haw card and only played some late doubles on the 8th and 9th. Then I see they never ran the races. Anyone hear anything? The only explanation I can think of is due to high winds. No rain, hail or snow. Just very windy. Very strange. First time I've ever seen racing cancelled to due high winds (other than in hurricane or tornado scenarios).

[PaceAdvantage]

Those winds will be hitting NY tomorrow....gusts approaching 50-60 miles per hour....or so they say...

[JustRalph]

They have been hitting Columbus Ohio for the last 3 hours. About 40 knots I would say.

My wife just called me from the runway at Port Columbus. She is sitting in a 737 that can't take off due to the winds. The problem is they are in position for takeoff and they shut down the airport.

She is never going to make it to Chicago.

[Valuist]

I posted before I left work to go home. Then I went outside. Those winds were unreal. I saw a guy around 6'5" maybe 250 lbs almost get blown over. Still windy today but not bad enough to cancel racing.

[JustRalph]

Originally posted by JustRalph
They have been hitting Columbus Ohio for the last 3 hours. About 40 knots I would say.

My wife just called me from the runway at Port Columbus. She is sitting in a 737 that can't take off due to the winds. The problem is they are in position for takeoff and they shut down the airport.
She is never going to make it to Chicago.

They took off........... two hours late in what they called a break in the winds. I haven't seen a break all day............still 40 knots here at Noon.........

[Tom]

I just blew in to town.
And boy are my lips tired! :D


Heh, heh....97 mph gusts in Victor NY today-blew a tree over on a car and killed a lady. Blew a tractor trailer right over on its side on the Thruway. Stop signs laying flat on the ground.
16 mini-outages at work today. All I did all day long was re-boot, log on to the network , then go blank. Snow was coming down sideways.

[sq764]

WHat is a knot exactly? In relation to a MPH?

(30 years old and I never took the time to find out)

[BillW]

Originally posted by sq764
WHat is a knot exactly? In relation to a MPH?

(30 years old and I never took the time to find out)

A nautical mile per hour = 1.15 MPH

or

3093.295 furlongs/fortnight

[Suff]

I used to Deep Sea Fish when I was young. No one knows what a KNOT is...even many people who own boats. At the little Bridges around Boston where they want the Pleasure boats to "NO WAKE".. They put up signs.. 3 MPH. If they put 2 Knots. People would'nt know how fast that really was....:confused:

[sq764]

When my wife and I drove to Toronto, I spent more brain power trying to convert Kilometers to MPH than I did for driving..

[JustRalph]

if you are going a hundred knots........you are going 115 miles per hour.........thats how they taught it in ground school....works pretty good................

[BillW]

For future reference:

http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm

Bill

[plainolebill]

A nautical mile is one minute of latitude. sixty minutes or nautical miles per degree.

[BillW]

Originally posted by plainolebill
A nautical mile is one minute of latitude. sixty minutes or nautical miles per degree.

At the equator?

[JustRalph]

Originally posted by BillW
For future reference: http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm

Bill

Bill

Great Site!!!!

[plainolebill]

Originally posted by BillW
At the equator?

Distance between degrees of latitude are always the same. A degree of longitude varies from zero at the poles to 60 nm at the equator. You can run 6 nautical furlongs pretty fast at the poles.:D

[BillW]

Yep, your right, I had them lines mixed up :D .

Bill