Is anyone else scared that it is gonna absolutely piss it down this year?

[Alvoram]

32 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

You joke but I don't think they could handle it, and I reckon health and safety has (probably rightly) tightened up on what's acceptable conditions in the last 9 years. Next wet one could be interesting. If 2016 happened now, I reckon there's a chance they'd cancel it 

Are any other large festivals being cancelled due to worse rain recently? Download was pretty bad last year and went ahead. 

[Skip997]

3 hours ago, Spindles said:

.  All the signs were that it could be a wet one and somehow the 5 best days of the summer fell at just the right moment and the only evidence it could have gone to sh*t was the insane amount of woodchip that turned West Holts into a dirty brown pile of ankle twisting mini logs.

The pre festival on site panic was a sight to behold. Mind you it meant I was called into action much earlier than usual and was rewarded for just being there (there being Dragon Field)

[incident]

43 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

Are any other large festivals being cancelled due to worse rain recently? Download was pretty bad last year and went ahead. 

 

Bearded Theory came really close last year, but not so much because of the site (which coped pretty well with a crazy volume of rain within 24 hours), but because it's right next to the Trent which came within a few inches of bursting its banks right into the campsites and arena.

[giantkatestacks]

1 hour ago, efcfanwirral said:

You joke but I don't think they could handle it, and I reckon health and safety has (probably rightly) tightened up on what's acceptable conditions in the last 9 years. Next wet one could be interesting. If 2016 happened now, I reckon there's a chance they'd cancel it 

I don't think I could handle it either tbh. I coped with 2016 as I wasn't working. I think a lot of people would just leave. What is Worthy View like in a wet year?

[Alvoram]

1 minute ago, incident said:

 

Bearded Theory came really close last year, but not so much because of the site (which coped pretty well with a crazy volume of rain within 24 hours), but because it's right next to the Trent which came within a few inches of bursting its banks right into the campsites and arena.

At least it's on the right side of the Trent. 😛😉 🤣

Seriously though, Catton Hall isn't it? That whole stretch from Lichfield through to Long Eaton / Attenborough Nature Reserve is always flooded, it's surrounded by lakes, ponds etc. Surprised it hasn't been an issue before, because where Catton Hall is can get really bad. (Although is it mostly the other side of the river that floods, where the ponds / lakes are?)

[Spindles]

I thought that they handled 2016 like troopers.  Got the woodchip in fast and targeted where it was needed, replenished frequently in the same way all weekend, even the cloggiest muddy paths were wide and manageable, I thought the response was like a well oiled machine and proof of just how well the festival can rapidly adapt to any problem from traffic, to weather to overcrowding and even being held mere weeks after a terrorist atrocity targeting crowds at entry/exit points and the precautions they had to put in place at the last minute there.

 

That festival coming off the back of yet another muddy download was probably as bad a set of conditions the festival has had to deal with in the modern (90s and beyond) era.  97, 98 and 07's thin, wet, slippy mud was another type of weather altogether and 2016 was something the likes of which I don't think the festival has seen since one particular year in the 80s.

[Someoni]

1 hour ago, Alvoram said:

Are any other large festivals being cancelled due to worse rain recently? Download was pretty bad last year and went ahead. 

I got sent some WILD videos from creamfields of tents taking off and such

[Nobody Interesting]

26 minutes ago, incident said:

 

Bearded Theory came really close last year, but not so much because of the site (which coped pretty well with a crazy volume of rain within 24 hours), but because it's right next to the Trent which came within a few inches of bursting its banks right into the campsites and arena.

 

I have been told it was less than an inch from the level at which the evacuate order would have gone out.

Saturday afternoon we were sat on the green grass as it drained really well.

[A Particular Grey Chihuahu]

Getting the car in and out of the car park is my main concern, because it can barely do it when it's dry! But as far as the festival itself goes, I can handle it 😁 

[Ayrshire Chris]

1 hour ago, giantkatestacks said:

I don't think I could handle it either tbh. I coped with 2016 as I wasn't working. I think a lot of people would just leave. What is Worthy View like in a wet year?

Worthy view wasn’t too bad in 2016 apart from the slippy muddy steps on the way up and down. The path  down to the tipi field was a bit treacherous as well. The grass was kept long so between tents coped well though it was pre festival rain that was the problem. Don’t know how the new path that was created the following year will cope with heavy rain. The car park was fine, track gets you out of the field to the road.  
 

anyway it’s going to be dry and sunny next festival so nothing to worry about🤞😊😉

[Mark E. Spliff]

On page 1 of this thread, there is mention of the water table affecting the muddiness at Glastonbury, and the suggestion that current rainfall might therefore affect it.  This is bollocks.  The water table is somewhere between 30m and 60m below the ground in the Pilton area, and there are no magical monsoons that will raise it by this amount - the water table varies by maybe 2 or 3m max. across the year.  If the water table ever did rise to the surface, then all the buildings and roads would collapse, sink, turn turtle or float away, and you'd be looking at a staggering natural disaster where the rescuers would be relying on hovercraft and helicopters....

 

Even if it pisses down, non-stop, between now and the end of May, all it would take would be a warm, dry June and we'd still have firm (albeit majorly chewed-up) ground by the time the festival started.  As always, the time to start worrying about the weather is late May.

[Alvoram]

2 hours ago, Someoni said:

I got sent some WILD videos from creamfields of tents taking off and such

Me too, wind was crazy and they still continued.

So I think it's fair to say that, this is Britain, there is weather... Unless there's a significant risk to life, i.e flooding, hurricane force winds, electrical storms etc, then the show must go on? We knuckle down and get through it. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Apparently 2016 was very touch and go. The plug was very nearly pulled.

[Crazyfool01]

7 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Apparently 2016 was very touch and go. The plug was very nearly pulled.

was it not similar the year pennards flooded ? was it 07 ? 

[CaledonianGonzo]

This was more in the run-up to the gates opening.  It's in Caitlin Moran's big profile of Emily Eavis a few years back.

 

[Someoni]

14 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

was it not similar the year pennards flooded ? was it 07 ? 

The videos of that are insane. It went from a trickle to much much more so quickly 

[MilkyJoe]

Wasn’t one of the Covid years a wet one?

[Crazyfool01]

23 minutes ago, Someoni said:

The videos of that are insane. It went from a trickle to much much more so quickly 

Yeah that YouTube one in penards where they start dragging the tents out of the emerging torrent 

[philipsteak]

40 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

was it not similar the year pennards flooded ? was it 07 ? 

 

2005

[steviewevie]

I went in 97 and we were driving down through stupid amounts of rain and on radio they were talking about stages sinking and armageddon and I was the lone voice saying let's just not bother (no ticket days) but all the other twats were saying onwards and upwards and it was f**king awful and no amount of booze and drugs changed that.

98 we were better prepared, but still got out on sat morning.

2005 I woke on pennard hill with a river flowing through my tent, fortunately we weren't at bottom of hill. We all congregated at a nearby beer tent for shelter and it felt like some sort of refugee evacuation would be necessary.

Didn't go in 2016, an anomaly. Going this year, be afraid.

[RosaAG]

I've only done 2016 before, so as long as it's a little less muddy than then, I'll be delighted. 

[Ben7amin_]

I think last years strategy of everyone conceding it was gonna be the worst weather ever - and the press getting involved worked really well.  If we do that again it will hopfully work out the same as last year

 

[Superscally]

9 minutes ago, Ben7amin_ said:

I think last years strategy of everyone conceding it was gonna be the worst weather ever - and the press getting involved worked really well.  If we do that again it will hopfully work out the same as last year

 

Do we still do the piss? 

[Drew3232]

2 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Do we still do the piss? 

You do it and post a vid on Youtube.

[Superscally]

2 minutes ago, Drew3232 said:

You do it and post a vid on Youtube.

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