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Flew from halfway across the country to attend Gov ball for the first time (long time attendee of other music festivals). I have attended several summer fests in which thunderstorms impacted plans - the difference being that those fests at least got in shortened days through the use of postponements and reopenings. Are you able to safely/quickly evacuate the venue in the case of a mid-festival emergency? How much do you think the shitshow of a few years back contributed to the mayor's decisions?

I feel like a low ground festival in NYC that takes place annually during the beginning of summer T Storm season needs to have better contingency plans than what I saw this weekend. What would you do differently next year, in the same position (if anything?) In other words, did you learn anything? At my job we call this a "postmortem with root cause and corrective actions" :)

I appreciate the response - I do disagree on the statement "you can't do anything but cancel the day"... We just saw that meteorologists can be wrong! In fact that's a like, common trope about the weather calling biz... I just thought that 97% means <100%, let's just wait and see.

I know you guys are just as, if not more, disappointed in the way things played out - it seems like 'cancelling the whole day at 12pm' was not fighting as hard as you could to make it work. Given the 6+ hours of clear weather we had + the brief way the storm actually hit, I remain unconvinced that your team couldn't have pulled this off.

At the very least, if this were to happen again you should have a strong argument with the powers that be to not treat meteorology as an exact science. When that will be is anyone's bet I suppose!