First year

Rilling · Post by **Rilling** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:56 pm

Hi I'm Rilling. This was my 1st yr at BM. I heard about it 18 years ago and vowed to go....Things happened in that place we call the "default world" and I misplaced my bookmark. Last year my 18 yr old son announced that he was going to BM. Raised him right I guess. When he returned with amazing stories I recommitted to my previous vow and vowed not to disavow it. My husband, our son, now 19, and our close friend and I experienced BM together this year.

I will see you next year and every year after.

Rilling

Teo del Fuego · Post by **Teo del Fuego** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:03 am

nice story...hope you had an amazing time! Always prepare for weather like we had this year but realize this was atypically tough (and even then it wasnt all that bad)

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:22 am

We were watching the storm come in on Thursday (not Fridays storm) and a girl said to me...I'm perpared for dust, Sizzling Hot days, freezing cold nights, but I'am NOT perpared for RAIN....

I thought about it and RAN for my CAMP...took down my closet, STUFFED ALL bedding & contents of closet in truck....wheeooooooooooooo saved by the FERN CAMP girl...and it didn't rain YEEEEAAAAAAA....*next year*
-this was my 5th- I will be perpared for rain...yes I know (iwasalwayssupposetobeperparedforrain)

Friday's storm rolled in and it was like livin' ground hog day movie...except for it ended with blessing rain...(thats what we call afternoon showers in Hawaii)

AND AN AMAZING RAINBOW

(I have never seen a brighter one and I live in Hawaii and grew up in Seattle)

The Playa is such a wonderful place it was so great to hear the whole CITY SCREAM RAINBOW....ahhhh Mother Nature showing off for us

Proving once again that she is A TRUE ARTIST

Post by **mdmf007** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:45 pm

Not many are prepared for significant amounts of rain on the playa - a little rain storm will turn th eplaya to goo that sticks to everything. Impossible to drive on too.

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:14 am

I hope it will rain a good bit one of these years. The gooey playa won't kill anyone, but it will be fun to adapt and watch others get along with it.

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:33 am

And sometimes it can rain a lot. In 2000 (I arrived on the playa that year on Tuesday) it rained every day through Saturday morning. The rain was so heave Friday night that the entire city just shut down. You couldn't ride a bike and walking was nearly impossible. But it dried up fairly quickly Saturday day and by the time the burn came around, the weather couldn't have been clearer or nicer. But I remember during the middle of the week, midday, wearing long sleeve shirts, jeans, and a windbreaker. Comparatively speaking, 2007 was paradise.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:41 pm

Yeah, 2000 was a hell for me too. I brought 200+ gallons of water
for squirting people with(first year with the water cannon).
Needless to say, this didn't work out as planned and we ended up just dumping the majority of it. I slept for three nights with wet feet
because the bed was longer than our tent before deflating it
and giving up on the air mattress. The good thing was that I had a half
dozen paint scrapers in my toolbox as these were necessity
for walking around without "platform" shoes. It really sucked for trying to cook bacon outside also.

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:09 pm

Hmm, i wonder if I could invite some sort of wet playa shoes. I am thinking of some sort of platform. Probably wouldn't work anyway.