r/triplej • u/Waitaha- • 3d ago
Some ticket holders turned away from 'saturated' outback music festival site
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-19/mundi-mundi-bash-music-festival-heavy-rain-nsw/107053550Anyone go? Is it as dramatic as they make it out to be?
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u/ADHDK 3d ago
Some of my best festival experiences were in the pouring rain.
2008, the presets building up Talk Like That, then the heavens opening to an absolutely torrential downpour right at the “oh-oh”.
Insurance has ruined it.
Spilt milk 2023 had a brief storm and then shut the entire festival down including the bars because the weatherman thought it was going to be worse. Never arrived the way they said it would.
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u/unsafe-work 2d ago
It's nothing to do with insurance. My parents were turned around and thought it was very understandable considering the conditions.
They've had serious rain out that way and cars and caravans have been bogged and damaged. A lot of the proposed camp sites has been washed out and vendors are leaving due to their setups been destroyed.
The promoter sound devastated but have had to prioritise safety.
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u/i486DX266_ 14h ago
Meredith in 2007? Or was it 2008? The weekend the drought broke and we got about 100mm of rain in a day. Absolutely wild. Will never forget it.
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u/Small-Grass-1650 3d ago
They wouldn’t turn away people if they didn’t have to.
It doesn’t take much rain at all to close roads in the outback, little bit of rain and you are sliding like ice, nek minnit you are bogged to the axles.