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Re: Are all Houston area teams surviving the flooding?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
And it's not like weather affecting Champs is unheard of. There was a hailstorm in 2012 during Einstein, and there have been several tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings during STL Champs over the years. Back in the dark ages of pre-2003 EPCOT Champs, with outdoor fields and pits in tents, there was a day it rained so hard the pits flooded and the power had to be turned off.
Not to mention 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_A...TornadoMap.jpg

That's right across the pits. The storm shattered windows at the cnn center, and several other buildings in the area. The dome was also damaged. The place was pretty badly beat up, but it was all cleaned up / patched up prior to championships that followed a few weeks later.
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