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"The Amazing Race 8" Storms Into Huntsville

By Jean Brandau, About.com

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Eight Suburbans...

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The teams were expected to arrive at the Space & Rocket Center sometime in the afternoon of July 11th but were delayed because of weather conditions. Eight black Suburban SUV's were parked at the Huntsville Convention & Visitors Bureau awaiting the teams arrival. Employees at the Visitors Center and the Parking & Public Transportation Department didn't know what was going on. The cars were parked in their parking lot after business hours and were gone shortly after the workday began the next day. The first teams did not arrive until about midnight and the last team came in around 4-5 a.m. If you're familiar with Huntsville at all, you know that if you look anywhere in town at night you cam see the Saturn V rocket lit up at the Space & Rocket Center...so it was probably easy for the teams to figure out where they were suppose to be going.
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