Lake Havasu Bluegrass Festival 2014 |
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As it turned out, I did not go to this festival, but since I had already started this page, I'm going to use it for a little rant. I'm a compulsive weather report checker, and a few days before the festival, it showed rain for one day. I decided to hope for the best, but then the forecast changed to two days of rain out of three. I've been to festivals when it rained, and it ruins the fun. I can't get my ticket money back, but I decided to cut my losses and stay home, since I could at least avoid buying gas at above $3.50 per gallon for a round trip of 830 miles in a vehicle that gets less than 10 MPG. In fact, I will not be going to any winter festivals in Arizona again, ever. I've been rained on as much as not, and finally realized that going to Arizona in the winter and expecting it not to rain is one definition of insanity. The last time I went to this festival, it poured down rain on Sunday. I waited and hoped for a while, and finally left about noon. I understand they had some performances under a gazebo, but my memory of those gazebos is that they have very little room, and are pretty much open to the elements anyway. At the same promoter's festival when it was held at Parker AZ we had one where it rained a little every day, another where it rained a little, and another where we had horrendous wind during the night that blew peoples' lawn chairs across the countryside. At another festival in Bullhead City we had wind every time I went, and once a bad enough rain that they moved the show inside a casino at Laughlin across the river for one day. Enough is enough. --Dick Estel, February 2014 PS: By staying home, I accomplished the following: went out to dinner with my grandson, his wife, and my great grandson, had a nice visit with Janell and Ken, and hiked the final segment of the Clovis trail system. |
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| Getting rained on almost every day for a week at Mesa AZ in 2003 |
| Getting blasted by wind at Bullhead City in 2004 |
| Getting rained on at Bullhead City in 2005 |
| Getting blasted by wind at Parker in 2008 |
| Getting rained on at Havasu in 2010 |
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Not to mention getting rained on, snowed on and frozen at a Mariposa festival; getting rained on a couple of times at the Parkfield festival, getting rained on a couple of times at the Plymouth festival, and the many festivals when the weather ranged from OK to really nice |
