MOVING DAY
Saturday, April 11, 2009
By Will Durst
Saturday at The Masters is known as Moving Day. Though it will be hard to top Mother Nature’s movements last night. The storm front they’ve been warning us about all week actually graced us with an appearance and surpassed all expectations. Sky was full of lightning for about four hours starting around 9:30. Rain. Lots of rain. Pouring rain. Horizontal rain. Inch and a half of rain. Tornado warnings and tornado watches and actual tornadoes touching down on both sides of the Savannah River. Hail. Rental car denting hail. 100 mph gusts of wind. No. Really. 100 mph. Power line snapping wind. Electricity out. 14,000 homes dark. Both the local NBC and CBS television affiliates knocked off the air. The remaining station (local ABC affiliate) switched to “all weather, all the time” and featured an expert on who cautioned people to put as many walls as possible between them and the storm. Which for us visitors to the 706 area code staying in motels meant… two. The outside and bathroom. Reading in the tub. Yes, clothed. But the course survived beautifully, and is expected to jump into the spirit of things and facilitate activity today with early soft greens. Much movement has already occurred, with everybody but 25 twosomes moving out of the Augusta Area to lick their wounds and contemplate what might have been. And if that Tiger Woods fellow plans on making a move from 7 back, now would be an advisable time to start. Hope he brought a jet pack. Patron Comments
