It happens several times a year but this time it abbreviated the Blokart championships when Ivanpah flooded early this morning. The event tent has
over 4" of water in it this afternoon. I really feel bad for those that have equipment and vehicles stranded out there. Most left when it started
raining about 4 am. Some decided not to or were unable to pull out in time. The tent and other items could be stranded there for more than a week or
two.
Coastal Wind Sports Team Rider Landsegler Disc wheels
PTW Hero Buggy - XXtreme ApeXX Buggy US 88 - Libre Hardcore IvanpahBuggyExpo.com Youtube link
Bob Muse
HQ Montana X 8m, Montana IX 12m, HQ Ignition LEI 5m,
PL Phantom 12m, 15m, Big Blu 24m+, Synergy 10m, Venom 10m, 13m , Phantom II 12m Vapors 3.8, 5.4, Crosskite Sonic 7m, PKD Combat 10.3m
Uturn Butane 2.5m PKD Buster 3m Genetrix Hydra 7m Ozone Yakuza GT 14m
Man, that is brutal. And agreed, very sad. I hope folks got their equipment and vehicles out OK. I imagine that tent got pretty dirty.
There were a few hours on Wednesday of IBX where we had some nasty storm clouds dropping decent amounts of rain pretty much to all sides of the playa
off and on throughout the afternoon. There were a few hours when we were watching rain advance as close as the solar fields across the highway. At one
point a few wind-whipped drops were hitting camp where Bob talks about the tent and I was thinking "Uh-Oh, Here We Go", but then it sort of broke up
and the sun burst out.
Those storms made for some pretty wild wind conditions with full 180 deg swings in wind direction, blowing teens to low twenties one minute to lulls
(dead calms) the next only to have as strong or stronger winds come back through in the exact opposite direction. I was in camp at one point trying to
head out and would pin a kite against a pole or the nose of my car, run the lines out and before I could launch the kite it would be rolling on the
ground TOWARDS me. There were a few people in buggies out on the playa at that point and it was wild to watch them from camp as they would scorch
around in completely different directions with their kites pointed N E S or W interspersed with sitting still with their kites on the ground.
Weather like we had that day is actually pretty spectacular looking in a mountainous desert setting like that.
Redsky, IBX is always the week after the last full week in March. It rained here mostly all weekend and finally cleared late this afternoon. A local
went down and said the water was higher today than it was yesterday. Now the drying and surface regeneration can begin.
Coastal Wind Sports Team Rider Landsegler Disc wheels
PTW Hero Buggy - XXtreme ApeXX Buggy US 88 - Libre Hardcore IvanpahBuggyExpo.com Youtube link
Bob Muse
HQ Montana X 8m, Montana IX 12m, HQ Ignition LEI 5m,
PL Phantom 12m, 15m, Big Blu 24m+, Synergy 10m, Venom 10m, 13m , Phantom II 12m Vapors 3.8, 5.4, Crosskite Sonic 7m, PKD Combat 10.3m
Uturn Butane 2.5m PKD Buster 3m Genetrix Hydra 7m Ozone Yakuza GT 14m
Redsky, IBX is always the week after the last full week in March. It rained here mostly all weekend and finally cleared late this afternoon. A local
went down and said the water was higher today than it was yesterday. Now the drying and surface regeneration can begin.
Bob - this is clearly a cycle that has repeated itself time immemorial. Do you have any feel for how long it tends to take for things to dry out and
be usable again? I realize there are many factors that could change this (temperatures, humidity, new precipitation, winds, etc.). Also, is the
surface generally nicer after this sort of flooding or does it take a while for wind to smooth things out again?
Redsky, IBX is always the week after the last full week in March. It rained here mostly all weekend and finally cleared late this afternoon. A local
went down and said the water was higher today than it was yesterday. Now the drying and surface regeneration can begin.
Redsky, IBX is always the week after the last full week in March. It rained here mostly all weekend and finally cleared late this afternoon. A local
went down and said the water was higher today than it was yesterday. Now the drying and surface regeneration can begin.
Bob - this is clearly a cycle that has repeated itself time immemorial. Do you have any feel for how long it tends to take for things to dry out and
be usable again? I realize there are many factors that could change this (temperatures, humidity, new precipitation, winds, etc.). Also, is the
surface generally nicer after this sort of flooding or does it take a while for wind to smooth things out again?
It's just different after every flood. Places that were smooth can be rough and vice versa. The renewed surface probably is affected by drying rate,
and wind during the drying out. You would have to be there during several cycles to learn cause and effect of what makes a good surface.
Coastal Wind Sports Team Rider Landsegler Disc wheels
PTW Hero Buggy - XXtreme ApeXX Buggy US 88 - Libre Hardcore IvanpahBuggyExpo.com Youtube link
Bob Muse
HQ Montana X 8m, Montana IX 12m, HQ Ignition LEI 5m,
PL Phantom 12m, 15m, Big Blu 24m+, Synergy 10m, Venom 10m, 13m , Phantom II 12m Vapors 3.8, 5.4, Crosskite Sonic 7m, PKD Combat 10.3m
Uturn Butane 2.5m PKD Buster 3m Genetrix Hydra 7m Ozone Yakuza GT 14m
Redsky, IBX is always the week after the last full week in March. It rained here mostly all weekend and finally cleared late this afternoon. A local
went down and said the water was higher today than it was yesterday. Now the drying and surface regeneration can begin.
Bob - this is clearly a cycle that has repeated itself time immemorial. Do you have any feel for how long it tends to take for things to dry out and
be usable again? I realize there are many factors that could change this (temperatures, humidity, new precipitation, winds, etc.). Also, is the
surface generally nicer after this sort of flooding or does it take a while for wind to smooth things out again?
It's just different after every flood. Places that were smooth can be rough and vice versa. The renewed surface probably is affected by drying rate,
and wind during the drying out. You would have to be there during several cycles to learn cause and effect of what makes a good surface.
Wow I did not realize that it could happen so fast. I will file that in the memory bank for the future
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A year or 3 before I attended Ivanpah was closed for either NABX or SBBB? They used surrounding dry lakes. Folks with more history can confirm that
and how it was handled.
About 3 years ago we got enough rain that most of us evacuated for a few hours.
It was around 2000 or 2001 when Ivanpah was flooded so we held the main event on Roach (north side of the casinos and following the power lines). Then
there were also trips to the other lakes like Jean and silver.
A few years later ... Around 2005ish it flooded mid event and we had to get off and then mount a big rescue to get all the buggies and a few stranded
vehicles off over the next couple of days.
Then there have been times where there was a rain and looked like it could flood and everyone got off and thankfully it was just enough to start to
feel a bit greasy but not flood and dried out the next day.
Mark Groshens NAPKA KC 13
WindSpeed kites & design - Canada
Peter Lynn Arcs: Charger2 22.5 +18 + 15 + 6.5, Charger I 6, Scorpion 16 + 10, Phantom II 12 + 9, Orig Phantom 9 + 6, Synergy 10 + 8, F 1200, S 840
Ocean Rodeo: Flite 17 + 12, Rise 13 + 10 + 7, Razor 9 + 6
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Peter Lynn Kite Cat for cruising the lakes
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Boards: 2 custom directionals, O.R Surf series 6-3 and 5-11, Mako Duke, Mako Skinny, Mako 140 Wide, Mako 150 Wide, Mako King, Brunotti
lots of old school skis, snowboard
Yes, there have been years when we've had threats of rain and actual rain. In 1997 (if memory servers me) there was water on the lake a month before
the event and it dried up just fine for the event.
Over the years we've been pretty lucky with the rains. This year we were lucky that our event ended a week before the rains hit and forced the Blokart
folks to move their event to the western portion of Ivanpah south of Whiskey Pete's.
Morrie Williams
Westport, WA, USA
Peter Lynn Comp Buggy
Peter Lynn Peel 5m, 10m
QuadTrac 3m, 6m, 9m
SkyTiger Hi 10, Hi 15, Hi 30, Hi 60
C-Quad 2.2m, 3.2m, 4.2m
Peter Lynn - Reactor II 3.5m, 6.9m
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Blokart with 2m, 3m, 4m, 5.5m sails
NABSA - us89nw
I knew it had flooded once or twice since buggying began at Ivanoah but didn't know it had happened so many times. Fran asked us for advice and it
turned out that the easiest option worked out for them. The west side of Ivanpah dries out more quickly than the east side but they still lost 4-5
days. They persevered and made the best of a bad situation.
Coastal Wind Sports Team Rider Landsegler Disc wheels
PTW Hero Buggy - XXtreme ApeXX Buggy US 88 - Libre Hardcore IvanpahBuggyExpo.com Youtube link
Bob Muse
HQ Montana X 8m, Montana IX 12m, HQ Ignition LEI 5m,
PL Phantom 12m, 15m, Big Blu 24m+, Synergy 10m, Venom 10m, 13m , Phantom II 12m Vapors 3.8, 5.4, Crosskite Sonic 7m, PKD Combat 10.3m
Uturn Butane 2.5m PKD Buster 3m Genetrix Hydra 7m Ozone Yakuza GT 14m
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