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Jordan Rimpela
Jordan Rimpela Digital Editor
8/30/19 12:24 p.m.
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If you haven't heard, Hurricane Dorian is headed straight for Grassroots Motorsports' world headquarters in Holly Hill, Florida, And that, unfortunately, means that instead of bringing you loads of amazing stories, we'll be preparing our homes and families for the coming storm. After the damage we received from Hurricane Irma, we aren't taking any chances with this year's preparations. Our editorial office …

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JG Pasterjak
JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
8/30/19 12:53 p.m.

PS: We've also canceled our trips to SCCA Solo Nationals for JG and David. The Tacos and Talent welcome party will still go on as planned with guest host Shane Donahue in charge, and senior freelance editors Andy Hollis and Carl Heidemann will be there covering the event for us while Perry Bennett and Rupert Berrington take lovely photos. 

In the meantime, we secure in place, stock up on survival gear and wait. Maybe I'll do a live feed from the eye if I'm not outside picking my gazebo off the lawn.

06HHR
06HHR Dork
8/30/19 1:01 p.m.
JG Pasterjak said:

PS: We've also canceled our trips to SCCA Solo Nationals for JG and David. The Tacos and Talent welcome party will still go on as planned with guest host Shane Donahue in charge, and senior freelance editors Andy Hollis and Carl Heidemann will be there covering the event for us while Perry Bennett and Rupert Berrington take lovely photos. 

In the meantime, we secure in place, stock up on survival gear and wait. Maybe I'll do a live feed from the eye if I'm not outside picking my gazebo off the lawn.

Long as your not picking important bits of your house up off the lawn, you can live with that.  Stay safe brother..

aw614
aw614 Reader
8/30/19 1:08 p.m.
JG Pasterjak said:

PS: We've also canceled our trips to SCCA Solo Nationals for JG and David. The Tacos and Talent welcome party will still go on as planned with guest host Shane Donahue in charge, and senior freelance editors Andy Hollis and Carl Heidemann will be there covering the event for us while Perry Bennett and Rupert Berrington take lovely photos. 

In the meantime, we secure in place, stock up on survival gear and wait. Maybe I'll do a live feed from the eye if I'm not outside picking my gazebo off the lawn.

jeez missing nationals 2/3 years really sucks, and the one year you go it was that crazy storm in lincoln. I'll never forget your fb live video of your run in that rain.

Stay safe, also preparing over on the west coast in Tampa for this storm 

Ransom
Ransom GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
8/30/19 1:27 p.m.

Take care, all of you, and everybody else in the area!

I cross my fingers that everybody's people and things are okay, and to be able to go back to reasonably champing at the bit for news of the MGB GT autocross tangent without bigger concerns...

Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/30/19 1:31 p.m.

All of you down there stay safe and keep us posted. 

pirate
pirate HalfDork
8/30/19 1:32 p.m.

Hang in there and be safe. As a Alabama Gulf Coast resident I know the pain in the butt it is to prepare and how the waiting for the storm can seem like an eternity. However it’s better to prepare well and not need it then to not prepare and have a direct or near direct hit. We have always stayed (not directly on coast and am on high ground) but a category 4 may be a good reason to get out of its way. 

Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/30/19 1:35 p.m.

Just to add a little levity to the situation while we can...

300zxfreak
300zxfreak New Reader
8/30/19 1:37 p.m.

It’s a really good time to live in Ohio.......just sayin’. 

JG Pasterjak
JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
8/30/19 1:39 p.m.
300zxfreak said:

It’s a really good time to live in Ohio.......just sayin’. 

Yeah let's not be ridiculous here.

NermalSnert
NermalSnert Reader
8/30/19 1:45 p.m.

Batten down the hatches and good luck! Stay safe!

bmw88rider
bmw88rider GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
8/30/19 1:57 p.m.

Stay safe there guys! 

pinchvalve
pinchvalve GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/30/19 1:58 p.m.
300zxfreak said:

It’s a really good time to live in Ohio.......just sayin’. 

Donebrokeit
Donebrokeit SuperDork
8/30/19 1:59 p.m.

Stay safe and see you on the other side.

 

FYI: I talked to Dorian ( my GF)  about taking it easy on everyone, she said would put in a good word. No promises.

akylekoz
akylekoz SuperDork
8/30/19 1:59 p.m.

Let me add this to the reasons not to live in Florida.

 

 

Floating Doc
Floating Doc GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
8/30/19 2:11 p.m.
akylekoz said:

Let me add this to the reasons not to live in Florida.

 

 

I'm in the same county as the GRM headquarters. We're prepared.

I figure this is the price we pay for not having to shovel snow. I'm good with that, plus I can have multiple autocross opportunities every month, year round!

MadScientistMatt
MadScientistMatt PowerDork
8/30/19 2:18 p.m.

Come on, somebody try showing Hurricane Dorian its portrait to see if it shrivels up and dies. I don't think I'll get a chance to do that myself, although a couple of the tracks on the spaghetti model show it coming through Atlanta. If it does, I'm totally going to try that.

ebonyandivory
ebonyandivory PowerDork
8/30/19 2:21 p.m.

My wife’s family are in the DIRECT path as of 3:20 on 8/30/19. And 2/3 want to leave and the other 1/3 refuses.

2/3 are over 60 with health issues and 1/3 is younger and healthy and wants to get out.

Its GD maddening. 

 

Jerry
Jerry UberDork
8/30/19 2:22 p.m.

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/30/19 2:24 p.m.
MadScientistMatt said:

Come on, somebody try showing Hurricane Dorian its portrait to see if it shrivels up and dies. I don't think I'll get a chance to do that myself, although a couple of the tracks on the spaghetti model show it coming through Atlanta. If it does, I'm totally going to try that.

Bwahaha thought the first thing when I first heard the name laugh

bobzilla
bobzilla MegaDork
8/30/19 2:24 p.m.

Don't worry about the stories... we got this. Hell, you could probably throw together a magazine just from the E36 M3 we have all shared here. Talk about making it easier for you. We could call it "GRM, the other side to the zany mag we all love". 

But seriously... be safe. I'm not afraid to say I'm not mad at anyone that packs up and gets the hell outta dodge when these come through. Y'alls got a bedroom in Indiana for a few nights if you need... but that seems a bit extreme. 

bobzilla
bobzilla MegaDork
8/30/19 2:25 p.m.
pinchvalve said:
300zxfreak said:

It’s a really good time to live in Ohio.......just sayin’. 

there's a reason so many astronauts come from there.... 

bobzilla
bobzilla MegaDork
8/30/19 2:27 p.m.

Apexcarver
Apexcarver UltimaDork
8/30/19 2:35 p.m.

On the bright side, you get to miss the reported concrete dustbowl.    

 

Stay safe guys!

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
8/30/19 3:38 p.m.

Hang on guys and good luck.

I’ll never bitch about a little snow again.

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