Adrian_Thompson
Adrian_Thompson UltraDork
3/28/13 10:42 a.m.

I find this kind of funny, although not for the organizers or competitors, but they’ve had to postpone the Magnum Opus rally in the U.P. It wasn’t scheduled to be held April 20th, even though that’s still four weeks off they’ve had to cancel it. The roads are under five feet, yes feet of snow with drifts up to 8-10 feet. They simply can’t open the roads!!!! The new date is June 20th.

logdog
logdog GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
3/28/13 11:45 a.m.
Adrian_Thompson wrote: I find this kind of funny, although not for the organizers or competitors, but they’ve had to postpone the Magnum Opus rally in the U.P. It wasn’t scheduled to be held April 20th, even though that’s still four weeks off they’ve had to cancel it. The roads are under five feet, yes feet of snow with drifts up to 8-10 feet. They simply can’t open the roads!!!! The new date is June 20th.

A friend of mine was flying ip from Houston for it. Opus was going to be his first rally. After he found out his ticket was nonrefundable he decided to come up anyway and we will find something to do. Now LSPR will be his first rally.

I read on another forum the quote was 6-9k to clear the snow.

yamaha
yamaha UltraDork
3/28/13 11:52 a.m.

Just hire a bunch of migrant workers to build a tunnel to be the course.......

Tom_Spangler
Tom_Spangler GRM+ Memberand Dork
3/28/13 11:53 a.m.

A rally being cancelled because of too much snow? What have we, as a society, become?

Kenny_McCormic
Kenny_McCormic Dork
3/28/13 12:49 p.m.

In reply to Tom_Spangler:

Five feet of snow, plus drifts, likely with a couple inches of ice on top. The plates didn't used to read "Water-Winter Wonderland" for fun.

fidelity101
fidelity101 HalfDork
3/28/13 3:24 p.m.

well E36 M3, that changes my april plans.

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