[NSRCA-discussion] Houston, SE Texas and SW Louisiana Competitors

[glmiller3 at suddenlink.net]

Hi all,

As I start cleaning up here in Lake Charles after IKE, I see on the news that the Houston and Beaumont areas were much harder hit than we were.  Since most of the contestant pool for our upcoming contest (Gulf Coast Pattern Championship) planned for October 4-5 would be coming from that area, I'm wondering how you guys feel about it?  

Were you:
1) far enough inland to avoid significant damage and want to proceed as planned 
2) Have too much going on now to worry about pattern and would rather cancel or postpone the contest?

I haven't been out to our field yet to assess the damage there ( Rita took off our canopy and club house roof, and destroyed most of our work tables), but I doubt that the runway was damaged, so if you want to have it, we can probably go ahead from a facilities standpoint.

My thoughts today are with Ron, Glen, Jim, Mark, Richard, Buddy, and the other "pattern guys" out there in SE TX.  

I realize that if you had significant damage, you probably won't get this message, but it's the thought that counts<G>.

G