The day was cancelled again today, due to impending thunderstorms all around us. Last night we had part 2 of the monsoon, where we could see the light show from the approaching storm cell for 2 hours as we watched more episodes of “Heroes”; it was continuous lightening as the storm approached, and when it got closer, the winds picked up as the gust front moved through. But we could see it approaching ahead of time so everyone in the campground prepared for it, staking down tents, putting laundry away, closing windows, etc. When the rain finally hit it was coming down horizontally and in typical tropical downpour style. It lasted all night and apparently the whole storm cell was about 250 km long. Up on Mt. Borah the windtalker recorded winds of 140 km/h, and all the tarps, sunshades, Astroturf pieces, etc. were torn down by the winds and scattered all over the hillside. This morning another huge storm moved through, with some impressive cloud formations over town (see http://mclearn.ca/gallery/ for a photo). It was pretty obvious from then that we wouldn’t be flying today!
Results from yesterday are still provisional, since the British Team filed an official complaint (not a protest, that comes if the complaint doesn’t go their way) since the scoring program only gave the winner 850-ish points, rather than the 1000 the organizers intended. Supposedly the scorers are trying to import elements of 2002 into 2000 to allow yesterday to be rescored as a 1000 point day (since all the nominal parameters were met), but if that happens, I’m not sure the results will stand since I’m sure another nation will file a counter-complaint that the new scoring system is not the original scoring system mentioned in the official rules. I’m not quite sure why 2002 wasn’t used in the first place…Godfrey says it’s because FAI said it had to be 2000, and FAI is saying he didn’t have to choose that system, etc etc etc.
Nicole
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