When drag racing in sand, to wait for the green light is to lose.Â
A light fixture separates two lanes of sand, each 100 yards long, clumped and stained with rubber and exhaust. A row of yellow bulbs shines, then another: On your marks. Less than a second passes, the exact duration unpredictable. Then an orange light flashes: Get set. This is the crucial moment of acceleration. In another four-hundredths of a second the green light will signal go, the front end of the dragster in the next lane will rise up like a taunted beast and an awful lot of dirty sand will color the sky…Â DetailsÂ
Perisher Valley (NSW), Australia – Heading into the Queen’s Birthday Weekend, the traditional opening of the Australian ski and snowboard season, slopes were brown and bare across the mountains of New South Wales and Victoria with temperatures too warm to make snow. As if on demand, however, snow began to fall on Saturday, accumulating modest totals that combined with last-minute snowmaking efforts in the colder air to allow early-season glisse at one Australian resort.
Twenty-one centimeters of snow fell in Perisher village overnight Sunday night, allowing the ski resort to offer top-to-bottom skiing on the Front Valley on Monday via the Village Eight Express chairlift after 95 snow guns fired up on Sunday night …Â Details
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When drag racing in sand, to wait for the green light is to lose.Â