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[ron1688]

I'm still down to go.

Is it worth picking an alternate date though?

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I second the picking of an alternate date. I would prefer not driving a cab in the rain..no fun...

[ether_joe]

btw I should have said 'backup' date. If it ends up raining on Sat I can do any saturday in April cept for the 8th.

My coupe loves the rain but you cab guys. . . noisy and wet. . .

[flash]

well, IF we are going to pick a secondary date, i vote for the 22nd

besides, that will give me the time to finish the next round of mods

i'm liking this idea more and more

we'll watch the forecasts and decide on thursday if we need to reschedule

[ds968]

agree on deciding by Thursday mid-day - the Doppler radar margin of error forecasting that close to the date is almost nil..

a few morning sprinkles here and there should not make a deference, IMO.. but if
there's a 30% or more chance of RAIN for that whole day... ( still not necessarily a deterrent for me ) I do recognize it'll kill a lot of fun of driving trough the canyons to get to Paso, so that's probably reason enough to rethink the date..

I'm coming back from Singapore late night on the 20th, and the 22nd is just too
close for me to operate heavy machinery, or Porsches I can drink and drive, but can't sleep and drive too well

Fingers crossed for this system to blow north-east and miss anything below San Jose..

[josephsc]

Keep in mind that it's not just the sky we need to worry about, but road conditions.

Last year, we had a run in the Bay Area on a day after rain, and a rock on the road carved a hole the lead car's oil pan. Everyone behind was unhappy with the oil on the road -- especially the guy who spun his car into a wall and the guy behind who smacked into him. IIRC, the run in which Steve rolled his cab last year was also after a rain, as well.

Anyways, 22nd should be fine with me. I have a bachelor party scheduled, but the wedding's been cancelled. We haven't gotten around to cancelling the bachelor party, though....

[ds968]

hmmm, for Saturday Santa Barbara's forecast is "mostly sunny" and San Jose's
is "partly cloudy" .. where the f* would Paso Robles' chance of showers come from ?!

Well, we'll see what they say in a couple of days...

[flash]

lol - dan, i think it sounds like you need to suck it up and drink some coffee and make it the 22nd

[ds968]

Nooo way ! 't'aint nothing better than April Fool's day for this event - I predict clear weather ! Better yet.. I hereby WILL good weather !! ( insert loud, echoing, commanding voice stemming from Mt. Olympus )

Well, I have an Olympus camera somewhere around here.. close enough !

[ether_joe]

yeah 4/1 is still my first choice, I've been looking forward to this for a while!

. . . said the guy with the nice dry coupe.

who's the greek god of weather? Was that Poseidon's domain? Wait poseidon is a roman god right . . . er . . . something

[josephsc]

Wasn't Poseidon Greek and Neptune was the Roman counterpart? And I believe he only had control of marittime weather....

Zeus definitely had thunder under his belt.

[FRporscheman]

That's not the only thing Zeus had under his belt...

I'd love to go, but I have so much HW to make-up... My 968 will miss you guys.

[ether_joe]

you guys have got it. Poseidon/Neptune.

Arash wassuuup? Good to see you round these parts.

Drove in to work in SF today and smiled in my dry comfy coupe.

[flash]

i can't figure this weather - it cleared up here like it's all done, but the weather site has now added sunday into the rain schedule for paso robles

[ds968]

as long as none of us wax our cars on Friday.... there is no better trigger for rain..

we'll be fine, you'll see..

[flash]

as of 6:30 am pacific it was 30% chance of am showers in paso, down from 30% all day, and up now from 0% to a 20% chance here

still watching - still going

[ether_joe]

I'm tuned in fellas and standing by. Weather this morning up here was sunny in the east bay and cloudy in SF. . . per the usual. . .

[ron1688]

Partly cloudy here in Elk Grove but need to know if it still a go by early this afternoon. Im going to be heading back to the bay area and need to decide which car to take.

[ether_joe]

aww hell man, bring BOTH

[flash]

cute trick - can you teach me that one? - it's a real pain in the butt taking cars back and forth to shops

[josephsc]

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