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Wait, youre looking at the forcast already!? Lol. Its supposed to be raining at my house right now and it isn't as of yesterday’s forcast. They were wrong about where and how strong Florence was going to be. I literally do not worry about Halloween weather until a day or 2 before. Rain is really fickle. They seem to be a little better at predicting temperature, which i worry about more. Summer weather needs to end, post haste.
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I don't freak out about the forecast until about 10 days out and it literally changes every single day leading up to Halloween! These guys are just throwing darts and hoping it's close to correct. Hell, last week they kept calling for rain for one day and it that one day kept getting pushed back until it actually rained. They do that for my Halloween almost every year and most years it's been fairly dry.
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I live in the gulf coast, so Halloween is like the tail end of hurricane season and it has been worse in the recent memory. We've gotten storms like 5 out of 6 years. Terrible, pretty much cancelled everything type storms. 
That being said, I would in no way trust a forecast that is even a week out - 3 days seems to be the best any of the best can really pinpoint with accuracy. After that, it's all conjecture.
That being said, I would in no way trust a forecast that is even a week out - 3 days seems to be the best any of the best can really pinpoint with accuracy. After that, it's all conjecture.
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I usually have to deal with rain on Halloween; that's one of the main reasons I stopped making animatronic props and have started incorporating more organic materials.
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The rain is not as of a big concern for me, however the wind is. We can get some pretty nasty wind storms and it makes it a challenge anchoring everything down so they don't blow away or blown over and damaged. Last year I had to take down and set up my stuff 3-4 times due to wind.
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Good point. Wind is far more unpredictable, and most times they do not forecast wind. Even mildly strong wind can be destructive.
The wind here is always killer so everything I build is built with the wind in mind and I always have repairs throughout the season with things that get blown over or utterly shredded. This year, all of my tombstones, instead of trying to stake them into the ground or pile rocks around them, but a new heavy wooden base painted up to look like stone. The bases weigh 25 pounds each so they're not going anywhere, plus they give a really stable platform for motors and the like. Luckily, no rain here. Haven't had rain on Halloween in decades. Just crazy, gusty wind that ripped the roof off the house a couple of years ago.
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My display had to be adjusted and scaled down due to wind last year. One of my giant inflatables didn't go up and the spider had to be on the ground instead of the roof. Also, I kept having to gather up my tombstones and bring them in so they didn't end up in the neighbor's yard a lot. I'm upgrading more tombstones this year so I don't have to keep uprooting my display all the time. I'm still not sure how to secure other things, but everything I've been buying the past 2-3 years has had to be some kind of weather resistant/proof. No "covered outdoor use only" for things I would want to leave out all the time... Which has lead to me saying "no" to a ton of props that I would like to buy. It does save me money and force me to look into reproducing a better quality version of the items on my own so I guess it isn't all bad.
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I'm sorry. Hopefully it won't being during prime ToT hours? My forecast turned out nice overall so I won't complain about a little wind stealing my fog. I know I roll the dice every year with my yard. As long as we don't have another Hurricane Sandy event, I'll be happy because they literally shut down my town for days and basically cancelled Halloween that year.
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worst halloween weather ever ... well, at least for me :-(
the last 2-3 weeks or more, we had unseasonably wet conditions ... and extremely heavy rain, but then i've never had to battle a monsoon
today, 10/31, we got a ton of rain again, pretty much rained all day and yes, some of it was extremely heavy
this year, i decided that a canopy might be a good idea ... and it was ... until the heavy downpour collapsed it
got another identical one but "reinforced" it with additional supports ... and it worked great until another heavy downpour threatened it as well, but added more supports under the 1 end where rain from off of the front roof began to pool and it worked ...
so, even with all of the rain, i think we got 250 tots ... last year it also rained, but stopped when it got darkish, & we has 450 tots ... year before that we had 500, so i'm happy that so many showed up tonight even though it was more stressful than any other year ... the last 2 years, i had to forgo the outdoor projections
hope that everyone had a gr8 night ... we did, but we're exhausted and didn't put out as many props as we typically do due to the rainy weather leading up to the big night
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the last 2-3 weeks or more, we had unseasonably wet conditions ... and extremely heavy rain, but then i've never had to battle a monsoon
today, 10/31, we got a ton of rain again, pretty much rained all day and yes, some of it was extremely heavy
this year, i decided that a canopy might be a good idea ... and it was ... until the heavy downpour collapsed it
got another identical one but "reinforced" it with additional supports ... and it worked great until another heavy downpour threatened it as well, but added more supports under the 1 end where rain from off of the front roof began to pool and it worked ...
so, even with all of the rain, i think we got 250 tots ... last year it also rained, but stopped when it got darkish, & we has 450 tots ... year before that we had 500, so i'm happy that so many showed up tonight even though it was more stressful than any other year ... the last 2 years, i had to forgo the outdoor projections
hope that everyone had a gr8 night ... we did, but we're exhausted and didn't put out as many props as we typically do due to the rainy weather leading up to the big night
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Glad to see you got a couple hours at least Looks like you had a great turnout. I woke up to almost white out snow Halloween morning. I seriously thought it was going to be a no go that night, go figure.....the first year I've built anything new in a while!!! As is typical here in Colorado, if you don't like the weather wait five minutes or drive five miles. By 1pm it had stopped snowing, the sun came out and by 5pm there wasn't even a trace of snow left on the ground. Even the wind died down this year
Looks like you had a great turnout. I woke up to almost white out snow Halloween morning. I seriously thought it was going to be a no go that night, go figure.....the first year I've built anything new in a while!!! As is typical here in Colorado, if you don't like the weather wait five minutes or drive five miles. By 1pm it had stopped snowing, the sun came out and by 5pm there wasn't even a trace of snow left on the ground. Even the wind died down this year1 - 18 of 18 Posts
