Come on, man.
We have the entirety of last year's Fest cancelled for the COVID, and now we have big ass storms to deal with? Really? That is lame.
As of a few days ago, I was feeling super bummed about the weather forecast. But, when I just checked, the new forecast looks like 90% chance of rain early morning on Friday, with it dropping down to 60/70% chance during the meat of Friday afternoon. Again, Saturday has super high rain chances early in the morning, but by the time we get into the Fest, that drops down into the 60/70% range. Sunday's prediction is just cloudy with no rain. Also, the nice thing about the predicted rain is that the total rainfall amount appears to be less than an inch for the whole weekend. Sweet! Hopefully it all keeps trending in that direction.
One question/worry - what happens if there is lightning? A friend of mine just went out to Ohana Fest in California last weekend and said that they had some lightning, which caused the organizers to shut down the Festival for one hour, kick everyone out, and then re-admit everyone back to the Festival grounds. If they have to do that for ACL, it will be a massive cluster. Deep Eddy Cabaret and Chuys would suddenly get 30,000 guests out of no where. I mean, there really isn't anywhere to go, if you plan on coming back! it would be a big mess.
ACL's official website doesn't mention lightning plans - the only safety discussions on there are about COVID protocols. But in the past, the Fest has carried on rain or shine, except for that year when the park was actually flooding after a foot of rain. From reading around on the Internet, it sounds like people expect the same response to lightning as my friend described at Ohana. Which would suck! I call dibs on the big round table at the front of Deep Eddy!
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