SCTA officials have announced the preemptive cancellation of Bonneville Speed Week 2015 today. This is the second year in a row the event has been cancelled in its entirety and one of less than a handful of times (perhaps the sixth) that it has been cancelled without so much as a car turning a wheel in anger.
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I was just at landracing.com and saw this. Bummer!!! Well I got 6 days of vacation to use now thats the good side of it.
I don’t think the lake bed ever fully dried out after last year’s rains and we’ve been on the high side of average precipitation in the last year.
Yeah, that’s what I’ve been reading. Between the mudslides wiping out a chunk of it, and the prehistoric sediments retaining water, the Bonneville salts lost both square footage and depth this year. It’s been interesting reading some of the geological theories that have emerged from this situation. I’ve found the idea that the surplus rains are being stored in the aquifer beneath the lake bed, thus preventing crystallization of the salts to be very interesting.
I got a snake, mang.
What facts?
All you’ve spouted was a bunch of “angry person on the internet” drivel. If you’re all for saving the world, then why on earth do you drive an overweight Chrysler minivan masquerading as a Mercedes SUV? Kettle, meet pot.
The businesses in the area, while inevitably doing damage, are experimenting with different means of utilizing the saline-rich water waste to recharge the salt, but so far all the results have been surface-deep. The reality is the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge is redirecting the flow of low-pressure winter air north and east around the west coast, and into the midwest and southwest. The additional precipitation is being stored in the lake bed substrate and aquifers of the region, leftovers from when the Pacific once reached the Rockies, is the most likely culprit as the near-surface water is inhibiting the salt crystallization seen in the past. Just like the ongoing drought; it’s merely natural cycles exacerbated by climate change, no doubt caused largely by your massive, stupid crossover and the hot air you yourself spew everywhere.
Besides the aquifer storage, there’s also further damage caused by the unusual regional weather systems, such as the mud slide, which took a significant bite out of the area.
Finally, as mentioned, yes, the businesses there are doing damage, as mentioned. They’re extracting mostly potash from the area for its potassium, as well as other ions such as lithium; the salt is usually returned to storage and evaporation ponds in an attempt to see if salt runoff can restore some depth to the salt pans, however salt beds aren’t well understood by geology yet as they’re still a rare phenomenon and the wastewater return concept hasn’t generated the desired results.
You want to save the planet? Fine. Get off the internet, stop wasting power, sell that fool’s errand of a dumbass crossover and grow up.
Bummer! I was going to have to miss this year anyhow but I feel for the racers. Guess we’ll take the whole thing up again next year.
Hope to see y’all in Impound next year!
Dan