The Loud Storm
Thursday night in Albion was an adventure. Heather came over because Jackson lost power. A huge storm ripped through our area. Several tornados touched down around the state, many areas are still without power (going on 3rd day now), and tons of downed trees, flooding... nuts.

Half of Albion lost power but somehow my place was fine. I took a few pictures of some downed trees and a special accident on campus.

Huge tree cracked right in half near my apartment.

The tree fell against one of my fraternity homes but no major damage. Big tree in front of another fraternity fell and took out some power lines. Tree was maybe 6 or 7 feet around. In case you could not see it in the previous pic... yes that tree crushed a car! (no one was hurt) Well this weekend was an adventure. Friday I had a wedding with my friend Megan. It was a friend of ours from college, and at the wedding we caught up with a lot of friends from WMU. Well one of them went to high school with Heather, small world. I finally got to talk to my brother Andres and wish him a happy birthday. He just started a new job and life for him is going well. Saturday Heather and I went to Detroit to meet up with her friend Erica and see her baby Mason. We got there early so I washed the car and took a few shots of the new wheels. I am excited, I got a killer deal on them and they not only will be good race wheels, but they look nice as well. I found a cool spot on the Detroit Mercy campus for some pics. Cleaned and shined awaiting their first race. Sunday we went to Ypsilanti for race. This was my first race with the Detroit SCCA group. It was a much larger event then I am used to and much more competitive cars/drivers. There were nearly 200 cars for the event and I was honestly very worried about how I would fare. I was facing 12 cars in my class... one of my biggest groups ever. It was a long fact course which is something I am not used to, Furrin events are usually short and tight. We got four runs and some exciting things happened... after the first run I landed smack dab in second place! Not too bad as usually I am toward the middle/bottom and crawl up spots during an event. After the second run BAM... I was in first place by nearly a whole second! This was the first time I was ever in first. The third run came and I got slower, but my first place time still held up. Fourth I improved over my 3rd run but still did not improve my best time... and unfortunately one of the other guys did improve and over took my time... so I ended in 2nd place. Still a great outing, and still a ton of fun! I can't wait to do more racing. It was a long fast course in Ypsilanti, MI. After the race a quick pic with the SpecV. My trophy, a nice drinking glass. So that was my weekend. It was a nice relaxing weekend with unfortunately a lot of driving again, but what else is new right? This week is mega busy at work, gonna be a few long nights but after that hopefully things will level out. We will see...