The trucks are building a levee on the north side of the rail tracks. They are not compacting the dirt in lifts and they are covering it with plastic. The trucks where going all day Saturday, Saturday and will into Sunday. Not sure what they are doing on the south side of the tracks. This rail line is one of the major east west lines that cross the US and moves a lot of coal for the area power plants. As every one know if they have tried to sleep at the track.
All this truck traffic has put and betting on Jesup Ave the road on the south edge of the track. It is starting to break up and areas and is getting some major dips in it where the culverts go under the road.
Staff at MAM has started to do some prep work to protect the buildings. They are starting to move equipment out and to higher ground. They are also working to remove some the plastic fencing along the pit lane. They have not started to any building of major levees around the building yet but they do have piles of sand bags around the buildings but not placed yet. There is a "Fine the Line" school scheduled for this coming weekend.
The river is currently at 32.5 ft above and the levees are 36 ft high by the track. The river is projected to be at 33.3 ft on Friday but the weather forecast is for area and going north of Omaha is for rain Monday and Tuesday and then again on Friday.
You can check the river height by Plattsmouth, NE by using this link.
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrogra ... 1,1,1,1%22
The Nebraska Region has tentatively booked the Aug 19th-21st dates at MPH in Hastings, NE in case MAM does go under in one way or another. Some SCCA people that I talked with this weekend had concerns about putting on a national at MPH but I said that there were a lot of Midiv racers looking for this to be a double national. Some of the things we talked about is paddock space, (MPH does has a paved paddock area and also large grass area to the east of this area) plus areas by their condos that could be used. Time and scoring stand, and the flag stand on the front straight and if a run group had a large number of cars some of them could be still going through the last 180 degree turn when the green flag is dropped. We talked about maybe a temporary flag stand on the back straight. To me there are really no major show stoppers just things that need to be sorted out before hand if the event is moved to MPH.
Here is a layout of MPH.
1 The Guardrail Clubhouse and Classroom
2 The Admission’s and Security Building
3 The Timing and Scoring Trailer
4 The Restrooms
5 The Concession Stand
6 The Paddock Area – with 30 RV Hookups
7 Condo & Studio Garages
I also have some videos out on YouTube from the October race last year. The track is a typical Wilson Design track placed in a field in the plains.
