We arrived on Thursday afternoon and
set up. The show opened up on Friday and
during the evening, it started raining. Throughout the night, we listened
to the rain coming down on top of our motor home. Periodically, the rain
would slow down, but would come down hard shortly after. Earlier on
Friday, there were reports of possible rain. As I walked around the vendor
area, located in a gully, I realized that if we were to get a large amount of
rain, the area is going to flood. The ground was hard and it would take a
long time for the water to seep through. Fortunately, when we closed up
Friday evening, we removed most of our things from the ground and elevated them
onto tables and hung a lot of our things on the grids.
It started raining on Friday evening. Throughout the night, we
listened to the rain coming down on top of our motor home and it was quite
loud. Periodically, the rain would slow down, but would come down hard shortly
after. Earlier on Friday, there were reports of possible rain. As I walked
around the vendor area, located in a gully, I realized that if we were to get a
large amount of rain, the area is going to flood. The ground was hard and it
would take a long time for the water to seep through. Fortunately, when we
closed up Friday evening, we removed most of our things from the ground. Upon awakening Saturday morning, it was still
raining and we pretty much knew that the day was going to be a 'washout'. All
day long the rains kept coming and coming.
As we sat in the motor home in the parking lot we saw the ground
turning to mud, as some vehicles passed by. We began to wonder if we would be
able to get our vehicle out of the parking lot as we saw many vehicles actually
get stuck in the mud; tow trucks couldn't even get them out. I gave thought to
moving our motor home out of there, but didn’t really have anyplace else to
park. We were to remain in that parking lot the remainder of the day.
