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The night of the eruption of “Crapatoa” remains one of the most infamous in rally history. On Saturday, just after the awards ceremony, when most rally goers head back to their campfires to reminisce about the weekend, we discovered the floor drains in the main building and bathroom facilities bubbling. Little did we know that the lateral sewer line had collapsed. The Lion’s Club liaison, a volunteer fireman, decided that a good blast of water from a fire truck might just unclog the line. The pumper truck was summoned and the noz- zle strategically placed in the drain in the men’s bathroom building. When the water blast hit, all the toilets and drains in all the facilities serviced by the lateral line shot geysers about six feet in the air. Fortunately, we had enough portable toilets on site to compensate for the temporary closing of the affected facilities. Water seems to be a recurring nemesis.
The rally has been rained on more than a few times. The 34th rally turned into a mud pit. At the time, drainage at the fairgrounds was not ideal, and heavy rains in a 360 degree circle around Potosi hit hard the day before the rally and on opening day. Our attendance was correspondingly smaller than usual. However, the 300 or so people who did brave the elements represented the heartiest of the rallying clan; they made the best of the situation and lodged few complaints. We have also been called the “Frozen
Leaf Rally” for obvious reasons. Tempera- tures have sometimes dipped into the teens overnight. On Sunday morning getting the airheads started sometimes required push- starting down the hill or hooking up a jumper cable to one of the four wheelers. The bikes often turned over slowly and smoked a lot once they got going, but they always did get going. Besides being the Frozen Leaf, we have
also been tagged as the Anvil Rally. Almost 20 years ago, Bob Odell, one of the owners of BMW Motorrad of St. Louis, offered to pay for “some guy in Farmington, Mis- souri,” to come to the Rally and shoot off
www.twistedthrottle.com/bmwowners 100 BMW OWNERS NEWS March 2016
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