Thursday, February 16, 2012

It never rains....

This afternoon, Endymion's captain told the Times-Picayune that they're doing "everything we possibly can" to roll on Saturday despite the wet forecast.

Last year, Endymion cancelled the Friday night before it was set to roll, saying even early thunderstorms would cause problems for its mammoth floats, which must get in position several hours before the parade is set to begin.

"Endymion is going to wait as long as it possibly can… we are doing everything we possibly can to go Saturday," Kelly said. Last year was a different story. We don’t want to go on Sunday."


Nobody wants Endymion to roll on Sunday. Especially those of us who are concerned about the ever-increasing problem neutral ground clutter along the Uptown parade route where Endymion would undoubtedly be re-routed. This week, Gambit has been helpfully keeping us up to date on the horrific things the Endymion crowd has been doing to Orleans Avenue during the week leading up to the parade. We're expecting the Uptown route to be bad enough as it is this weekend. Moving all that bullshit across town on top of it only compounds the problem.


Meanwhile, from that same article we get this.

Kristin Danflous, captain of the Krewe of Iris, said Thursday that her organization has no intention of parading in heavy rain like last March, and is working to secure an alternate spot.

"I hope everything falls into place and hopefully it doesn’t rain, but we are not going to parade in torrential downpour like we did last year,' she said. 'That was awful."


The reason that quote makes me giggle a bit is last year, before the "torrential downpour," the Iris captain was quoted in the paper with a similarly arrogant sounding, "It doesn't rain on Iris." Well this year, they "are not going to parade" in it. You can almost hear the pearls being clutched.

Don't get me wrong. I love watching Iris, but their Uptown Ladyism is showing a bit.

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