Jun
24
Do I detect a hint of schadenfreude?
ByI do hope my sister is having a good time at Glastonbury
“It looks like one big paddy field,” Goff said. “This is the most torrential I’ve ever seen it at Glastonbury. People are singing to try to raise spirits, but eveything’s flooded out.”
Steve Haig from BBC Somerset Sound said that the recent fine weather meant there was nowhere for the rain to soak away. “The communications are down, with radios not working, and some of the bands who were arriving have been told to stay away because their vans might sink in the mud – the whole thing has been thrown into chaos,” he said. “One can only hope the rain stops soon or this festival is going to go down as a disaster.”
2 Comments
June 24th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
fine weather meant there was nowhere for the rain to soak away.
Huh? I thought when it had been raining alot and the ground is already saturated was when the rain is unable to soak away.
June 24th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Hmmm. I do believe you’re right…which means that when it’s dry its bad and when it’s wet it’s bad. Perhaps, since it rains almost every year at Glastonbury, some sort of drainage ditch/channel could have been dug to stop the place being washed out…Then again, the mud is supposed to be half the fun (unless, of course, you’re my sis, in which case it could be playing havoc with her wardrobe…)