I dont know if ive uploaded this picture properly, but it shows some of the conditions of glastonbury.

:shocked: woah!! I hope those kids have a paddle boat!!

Wow.

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Or should that be GlastonBURIED?? :P

jesus christ... your jokes are stale!!

Couldn't resist it - sorry!! :P But I dare say the water's a bit "stale" by now, too!! :P

Anyway - it's pouring down here now, too, and I'm delighted. Perhaps my flat will cool down at last. :)

Oah..

when is that from?

I believe that was yesterday.. lol

:stunned: I thought this was from previous years..

 

Not sure I wanna go to glastonbury anymore..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:rolleyes: wait..

 

 

 

 

Yes I do! :idea2:

I never did! Especially after hearing about the toilet facilities!! :)

The Festival organisers were adamant this afternoon that the rain had been little more than an unwelcome distraction from the business of running the country's biggest party.

 

While there had been a few casualties of the downpour, these amounted to little more than a good soaking and perhaps a lost tent or two, according to Festival spokesman John Shearlor.

 

He said the unfortunate few - less than 100 - who needed to be moved would be re-tented and found a drier spot.

 

Mr Shearlor and the team scotched rumours the Festival would have to be abandoned if the rain returned and dismissed as fanciful the idea that people had been struck by lightning.

 

"The Festival is working," he said. "Apart from a few delays in starting the music everything is pretty much as it should be."

 

Police said, if drug statistics were ignored, crime was down from the figure for this time last year, with 16 crimes detected, compared with 25 last year.

 

The picture did not look so rosy if drug offences are included in the figures, however, up from 61 last year to 87 by 3pm on Friday, but Sgt Frazer Davey told the press this was down to an increased number of searches and closer teamwork with security rather than an indication drug use at the festival was on the increase.

 

Meanwhile the fire service had its work cut out for it, drafting in heavy duty pumps to divert the floodwater from the over-burdened stream that flows through the site, which had become clogged by debris washed away by the rain.

 

The ambulance crews dealt with 26 cases by Friday, some drug casualties but mainly minor illnesses or injuries from slips and falls in the muddy condition.

 

Mendip District Council's health and safety officers, reacting to suggestions people were now swimming in the deeper floods to cool off, warned people to steer clear of the water where possible as it may have become contaminated from overflowing toilets.

 

Food traders have perhaps taken the biggest hit from the weather, with power down in some areas and food spoilt by flooding or lack of refrigeration.

 

100,000 punters had arrived by 3pm and Mr Shearlor said there was no sign of a mass exodus as people fled the muddy conditions.

 

"Things have happened very quickly and were largely unexpected," he said.

"But as a festival, we're happy with how things are going.

"It's only rain."

 

Sam Bond

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/index.asp?id=301

 

 

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somehow, I wish I was there.. :cry:

Mendip District Council's health and safety officers, reacting to suggestions people were now swimming in the deeper floods to cool off, warned people to steer clear of the water where possible as it may have become contaminated from overflowing toilets.

 

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Glad I'M not there!! :P

 

Food traders have perhaps taken the biggest hit from the weather, with power down in some areas and food spoilt by flooding or lack of refrigeration.

Eww.

:lol: :lol: :lol: sounds like fun, eh!!

 

 

 

I keeed!! I guess what I mean by being there is that its an experience... a life impacting one.. :embarrased: I guess I feel my life hasnt had much of those.. but that is gross.... :sick: the waters and stuff...

I hate crowds in general - and THERE is a mighty huge one!! Cologne was all right because I was at the front (for Coldplay), so didn't really notice the 30,000 peeps!!

the front is usually the worst, since you get smashed from the 30,000 peeps behind ya..

No - it wasn't like that at all. The front section was barriered off anyway, and only a limited number of people were allowed in there. I was one of the fortunate ones.................

oh..

that's nice then.., you were lucky! :P

i sooooo wish i was there, coldplay are guna b amazing tonite i can tell!!

Of course - aren't they always?? :P

Wow. I don't feel so bad about not going.

 

And there are a few hills that you can camp on, I camped there last year and no mud at all, whereas some places if you took a wrong step your shoe was stuck in the mud :lol:

Only your SHOE?? Check this year's photos!! :P

wow!! Glastonbury under water!

I´ve never seen such a floody festival. But the best thing is Glastonbury can keep rockin'

:cool:

 

Hi

we were pretty much camping in a field nextdoor to those floods you see there, we were woken up by a small river flowing through our tent so it really pales in comparison to the extent of damage there....but trust me when i say that the floods just made glast 2005 more of an epic experience than I could ever have imagined

 

the weather we 'slept' through was truly of biblical proportians and seeing the whole thing kick off down on worthy farm itself just made the whole experience more memorable. I really wouldn't change that week for anything. I doubt some of you care that much, but getting to go to glastonbury is such a privalige for those who have the dumb luck of getting a ticket - theres very little (including 3 simultanious thunderstorms, lightning torn beertents, rivers of shit, flying portaloos, drowing tents) that can stop you having the best time of your life - and I think that was the 5th time I've been able to go.

 

2007 isnt that long away....is it?

 

Oh yeah, coldplay were so awesome my eyes started welling up.... was never a big fan before then either.