On Sunday when the Origin stage closed the Glade organisers made an announcement saying that there was a weather warning and a massive storm was due again. They reccomended that people left that night and although me and someone else from the campsite weren't arsed my mate wanted to leave thatcham that night (and his mates) and our campsite was absolutely deserted. About 6 tents full of people had left early on the monday.

We ended up going to stay at a friends house near London and I haven't heard what it was like yet. Was there a storm and did anyone have additional trouble leaving on the monday?

the weather was fine on monday

It was already raining (relatively lightly) by 8am on the Monday. I was off the site by about half past noon, so dunno if there were storms later in the day.

there was no storm on monday - i was on site until about 9pm that day and there was light drizzly rain and a bit of wind

Yeah I think it was just as much scare tactics as it was them being considerate... I rec they just wanted to clear the site as early as poss... Dammit I paid to be able to camp till Monday so I stayed... Was all good until I saw the 6 hour que for tractors then had to pay the extrotinate fee of 20 quid for the priveledge!!

No one cared how we got out. Just cared about cashing in on our misfortune..

funk_yeah! wrote:Yeah I think it was just as much scare tactics as it was them being considerate... I rec they just wanted to clear the site as early as poss... Dammit I paid to be able to camp till Monday so I stayed... Was all good until I saw the 6 hour que for tractors then had to pay the extrotinate fee of 20 quid for the priveledge!!

Reggie and me are bringing one of these next year.

Becky and I decided on the way home we were bringing llamas....lol

I'm bringing one of these,

I'm hiring a 4x4, being sensible

yea when we got back to my girlfriends house and checked the local weather it became apparent that it was just a tactic to start the massive job of getting the site clear early.

bongobil1 wrote:yea when we got back to my girlfriends house and checked the local weather it became apparent that it was just a tactic to start the massive job of getting the site clear early.

Dodgy tactic if that's the case. Haven't they heard the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf?

I hope he doesn't cry wolf too loudly. I'm half a mile from a river on critical flood alert....

Inastate_ wrote:On Sunday when the Origin stage closed

just tryin to clear of the trancers before they got stuck in to there liquid acid...

They made the same announcement at the main stage too, they read out what ended up on the laminated posters around the site later that evening.

There were more severe weather warnings in place, and thats what they were, warnings. The MetOffice can only predict what nature is going to throw at us, so if theres a chance of another flood, it was a good thing that they made people aware of the chance, and we all made our own decisions based on that.

It was raining at 4:30am monday morning when i woke up to clear the campsite

By the time the warning was given me and the other half were way over the drink drive limit so we stayed!

was given in the breaks tent too after mala...who annoying ly wasnt allowed to play 1 more track ....booo!!!!

yeah i think they were scare tactics also..we braved it out till monday also!!

When I checked the met office web site Sunday lunch time they were predicting rain all day for Newbury on Monday.

SiCo wrote:When I checked the met office web site Sunday lunch time they were predicting rain all day for Newbury on Monday.

And it did indeed rain (lightly) for much of the morning. No idea what happened in the afternoon, as I was long gone by then.

it was fine got out at 3pm in 25 mins on a makeshift bridge once the farmers had fucked the exit up