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High winds force La Salle Speedway to cancel July 2 · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: High winds forced Lasal Speedway to cancel July second Written
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  by Tom Collins, This article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Wednesday brought high
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  winds clocked at more than fifty miles per hour, and
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  Lasal Speedway and Event Center certainly felt it. Damage to
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  the facility forced owners to cancel its July second events.
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  Tony Idso, junior vice president of Lasal Speedway and Event Center,
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  announced Friday that high winds severely damaged our power grid
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  and electronic infrastructure, rendering our facility inoperable. Consequently, the July
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  second schedule was canceled and refunds will be issued to
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  anyone who purchased advanced tickets. We are grateful for your
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  ongoing support and understanding, Idzo posted on the Speedway's Facebook page. Unfortunately,
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  no alternative dates are available for the summer now, and
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  we will reschedule the fireworks display at a later event.
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  Izzo later spoke to Shaw local news network and said
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  the Speedway would be back up and running by the
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  Monster Truck Show on July twenty fifth. Idzo said the
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  storm damaged infrastructure that had been there since nineteen ninety two.
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  It isn't a patch job, he said, though a monetary
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  tabulation of the damage is pending. We will rebuild and
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  come back stronger and better than ever. The National Weather
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  Service didn't have a site specific gauge of the force
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  of Wednesday's winds. However, meteorologist Ricky Castro said the US
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  Army Corps of Engineers clocked the Wednesday evening winds at
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  fifty six miles per hour at a station near Utica.
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  A report from rural Grand Ridge reported fifty three miles
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  per hour gusts