However the tent jsut below us under the strain of the water that was now knee height, the tent was buckling under the strain and was a complete mess. We had to check wherever there were people inside as we hadn't seen the owners all morning. When they returned after it calmed down all of their belongings were completly wrecked.
Other campers came to our aid by putting our bags in their tents and one family even baby sat my 1 year old sister at the time while we unpegged and moved everything out of the water.We were lucky, the only thing that got wet were the clothes we wore that morning when we resucued ourselves.
The orginal creek and the new river formed to make one great mass of water running down the hill. The joining was where our tent was. When we woke up that morning it felt as though we were camped on a water bed. Once we realised the situation we were in we had to get up quickly and noticied that we were not the only ones in danger of having all their clothes etc wrecked.
I was there that year. As i was with family we were camped in the family field. We camped close the a fenced off creek. When the rain came the creek burst its banks directly where our tent was camped. Not only that but the rain from the top of the hill had formed its own new creek/river and was running down towards our tents.
The sun shone and made the ground hard. Then the rai...
The sun shone and made the ground hard. Then the rain came and flooded all the low lying campsites while people were sleeping. Next the toilets flooded and spilled raw sewage all over the flooded campsites. Not nice. Here you can see one poor chap swimmning back through the sewage to to and reclaim his tent.
a festival for the upper classes now
it was around 1990 when glastonbury died,
kylie,jay zee ,,,,phil collins next year LOL
the reggae/ roots/peel stage is were i would go...fuck the pyramid
(passed away 2005 at Glasonbury. A local guy, much loved by all & much much missed). Peace x
When we woke up that morning it felt as though we were camped on a water bed. Once we realised the situation we were in we had to get up quickly and noticied that we were not the only ones in danger of having all their clothes etc wrecked.
We camped close the a fenced off creek.
When the rain came the creek burst its banks directly where our tent was camped. Not only that but the rain from the top of the hill had formed its own new creek/river and was running down towards our tents.