Which fields flooded during the monsoon of 2005?

[Wooderson]

My tent got flooded in 05. We camped in Row Mead and the drainage ditch that runs down next to the bushes got blocked with debris in the storm. I remember on my airbed in the tent and put my hand on the groundsheet and it just sunk. Opened up the tent to find water running through it. It then got really bad and a river of water was hitting my mate's side about 3 feet deep and running through the tent. We got out and the river knocked two tents down in front of ours. We just stood in the rain watching and all I had dry at the end of it was my sleeping bag that was floating on top of my air bed. People were coming up taking photos of our tent, a photogrpaher came up too but I've never seen the photo online anywhere. Eventually a JCB cleared the blockage in the ditch and the river of water went almost straight away but everything was soaked and covered in mud.

We stayed, got dry and lasted until late Sunday afternoon, I'd had enough by then though, Our tent was full of mud.

2007 was just grim throughout really. Like Russy said I remember a bit of sun during SFA and that was about it. From Sunday evening until we got home on Monday afternoon it didn't stop lashing with rain. I think the Sunday night was the worst I've ever felt being there and could easily have left early again.

[Mardy]

2007 was just miserable. We had to cut through the backstage area on Monday to get out (we were travelling with a mate who does backstage stuff). we were wading through liquid mud carrying a load of gear that was continually slipping out of my hands and I've never felt so dispirited in my life.

[Thearg]

I'm so glad I wasn't there in 2007,it sounds awful.I can handle some rain but wall to wall I couldn't cope with.

I was up when the rain started in 2005,I think it was about 4am and as someone pointed out there was a crack of thunder and it threw it down.I was at the entrance to shangri la in this little tea& cake/ bar tent,I remember the water coming down the track towards us and then washing around our feet,I took this as a sign to go to bed,we were camped at the top of Williams so we were ok then we awoke to the carnage in the morning,I think I remember that there were reports that the Pyramid was sinking and Micheal nearly had to stop the festival.

But it all turned good in the end,it was a bit sloppy for next few days but by Sunday there was a good crust on the mud.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

there was no let up at all was there in 2007. Relentless rain, apart from 2 mins during the super furry animals

[posthuman]

I was in the coffee house in the tipi field when the storm began in 2005 - sipping on some chai, chilling next to a fire with someone playing acoustic guitar. After more thunderclaps, the rain began - slowly at first. Eventually I decided that it was time to head back - only to find that some cheeky bugger had stolen my wellies. Rather than steal someone else's wellies, I ended up walking through the rain and mud in my socks.

Stopped off at Joe Bananas on the way back to buy a new pair of wellies... there was a guy trying to haggle with the guy on the stall, who responded "Listen mate, in four hours' time you will pay whatever price we ask... there will be a queue all through the market, and police having to control it. Now are you going to pay twenty quid or what?"

He wasn't wrong.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

2007. Million times worse,

Think - the drizzle wind and cold on Friday night in 2011 - but for the whole weekend.

By the Sunday everyone just trudged along on the metal walkways. You waiting for a gap in the queue going somewhere, got on the walkway and then got off at whatever stage you wanted. I reckon some people just did one gigantic circle round and round the site.

We saw Jamie T and Gossip on the Sunday night for no other reason that it was under cover and we couldnt bear any more drizzle.

[Wooderson]

I think this is why 2009 was such a great festival.

2005 was good but the weather was a mess, 2007 one of the worst on record, 2008 hardly a classic.

The three years previous to 2009 were tough. The denizens of the festival earned their respite from the elements.

Year after was too hot, natch. Typical!

[Wooderson]

2007. Million times worse,

Think - the drizzle wind and cold on Friday night in 2011 - but for the whole weekend.

By the Sunday everyone just trudged along on the metal walkways. You waiting for a gap in the queue going somewhere, got on the walkway and then got off at whatever stage you wanted. I reckon some people just did one gigantic circle round and round the site.

We saw Jamie T and Gossip on the Sunday night for no other reason that it was under cover and we couldnt bear any more drizzle.

[giantkatestacks]

I was about half-way back in the crowd for the Who. Worst rain ive ever experienced/tolerated at an event.

There was a 60-ft wide gap in the crowd behind me - in line with the central column - for the whole show due to an impassable lake of mud.

Everyone around me cupping numbers in hands trying to get as wasted as possible to survive it. Horrendous.

[russycarps]

I was about half-way back in the crowd for the Who. Worst rain ive ever experienced/tolerated at an event.

There was a 60-ft wide gap in the crowd behind me - in line with the central column - for the whole show due to an impassable lake of mud.

Everyone around me cupping numbers in hands trying to get as wasted as possible to survive it. Horrendous.

[Calvin Klein]

How cold did it get at night in 07?

[Ed209]

Wasn't too bad at night. Just wet and miserable.

Its coldest when its clear. I've been proper freezing at about 4/5 in the morning on some really nice glastonbury days

[dingbat2]

Just had a scary thought, I cant remember where I was Sunday night in 2007. I didnt see the Who, and I am sure I wasnt at the Chems. Where the hell was I ?!!!! Need to check the rest of the line up......

[Trebor]

I seem to have been one of the few that enjoyed the Who, well me and my mates anyway. The pill might have helped mind. And they could have been better obviously. 2009 was great, just such a relief to see any mud that was there get dry so quick. 2010 was perfect!

[ThomThomDrum]

2010 was perfect!

[Trebor]

Oh I loved it, I've been waiting for weather like that there for a long time! Though I can see how not everyone would have enjoyed it. I found the heat too much in 2011 on the Sunday. It was like a smack in the face for wanting the weather to pick up! The minute the sun set on the Other I felt instant relief

[Pinhead]

Ha - thanks for reminding me about the river running through the catering tents (Oxfam for me that year) - had completely forgotten about that. Was surreal.

Best Glasto weather is a balance - temps in the region of 22C, 14C at night, scattered fluffy clouds providing intermittent relief from sunshine.

[rexclark]

Remember listening to Radio 1 on the Friday morning and when they went to cut to Jo Whiley at 10am she started talking about how bad things were and how some stages weren't able to start up then it just cut off. Sounded horrific.

[LondonTom]

Year after was too hot, natch. Typical!

[scmusic]

I seem to have been one of the few that enjoyed the Who, well me and my mates anyway. The pill might have helped mind. And they could have been better obviously. 2009 was great, just such a relief to see any mud that was there get dry so quick. 2010 was perfect!

[ErnestWorthing]

2009 was my first and only Glastonbury.... until 2013!

[Ted Dansons Wig]

2009 was my first and only Glastonbury.... until 2013!

[Wooderson]

Don't talk such foul language!

[annax]

I know why the Sunday afternoon audience was down... England v Germany...

[garokev]

08 and and 09 were ok weather wise, 1 day of rain on the Thursday and cleared up nicely for the rest of the weekend. 10 was mighty hot but I'd rather that than the auwful sounding 05 and 07's!