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Event Info:
Raleigh Wide Open III
(http://www.raleighconvention.com/grand-opening.php - broken link)
Raleigh Wide Open III Flyer
Info Flyer (broken link)
Stupid decision by the city. I cannot believe we have a state of emergency and the city is asking people to show up for an event that should be postponed. I pray to God that no one gets hurt.
actually the weather was really nice. I actually met some of city emergency management people who had a booth in the convention center. I did however miss "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum
Yeah, I don't blame the city for moving forward with the event. Sounds like it was still very successful despite the weather (which ended up being very nice Saturday Afternoon anyway). Besides, I'm sure rescheduling the event would have increased the overall cost so they avoided wasting taxpayer money.
Friday night was nothing worse than a regular rainstorm, and I was out walking home from Landmark Tavern in the pouring rain at 1:30am, so I have firsthand eyewitness experience of the "wrath of Hanna". No big deal. In fact, it didn't rain for most of the evening, especially durring the time of RWO (which ended at 10pm). Not even any wind, really. I did hear that the wind picked up in the early morning hours Saturday and tossed a few tents around, but I think most everyone was asleep at that time. Saturday the weather was really quite good for the majority of the day.
The media made Hanna seem much worse than it was (at least in the Raleigh area), with the exception of a few areas that had flooding. Downtown did not see much action weatherwise. If you had no idea that it was a tropical system you would have just thought it was any other rainstorm.
The media made Hanna seem much worse than it was (at least in the Raleigh area), with the exception of a few areas that had flooding. Downtown did not see much action weatherwise. If you had no idea that it was a tropical system you would have just thought it was any other rainstorm.
Agreed. The only differentiator was that there was a lot of rain in this rain storm. In one 24 period, Raleigh caught up to the deficit it had since Dec. '06!
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