It Never Rains in Sunny Southern California

Well, that's just not true. It does rain, and rain alot.

As you know I've been home for 22 hours since January 24th. I was supposed to fly home on a redeye last night and be home until Wednesday AM. Then the rains came this weekend. We knew the rains were coming. NASCAR was watching the same weather reports that we were, but for some reason they thought that they could get not one BUT two races in yesterday. They were hellbent to prove everyone else wrong.

The result- after a 3 hour fill, they started the race, only to have a major crash cause a red flag. During the red flag, they went out and found that what the drivers had said was true- There was water weeping out onto the track through cracks in the asphalt from the ground water. I have to give everyone on the crew credit for hanging in there. We did updates every 30 minutes from 6pm local until 11pm local. We went on the air at 12:30pm local time, and it wasn't until 11pm local time that NASCAR finally admitted what we all knew-- there was no way they were going to be able to safely finish the race that night. The race restarted today at 10am local time, which means a 6am in time for us (and that was generous).

The best part is we have TWO races to do today. The end result for me- I'll only be home for those same 22 hours from January 24th through March 3rd. Really makes me desirable, huh?