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Hurricane
Nicole Abbreviates 2022 Native Rhythms Festival |
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What the NOAA track projection
looked like at 1PM on Wednesday, November 9th. Nicole
was to come ashore just south of our festival grounds in
Melbourne.
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Uncertainty
surrounded the 2022 Native Rhythms Festival as we
entered the week of the festival because Hurricane
Nicole, offshore central Central Florida and headed our
way, threatened intolerable weather and safety
concerns.
By 5AM on Monday, November 7th, a large, disorganized
system north of the Greater Antilles out in the Atlantic
became well enough organized to be classified as a subtropical storm and
given the name Nicole. This was just 3 days before
Thursday's first day of the 2022 NRF.
By noon on Wednesday,
November 9th, Nicole passed over the northern Bahamas
and strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. This is
when our team was supposed to be out marking out
vendor booth locations in our Vendor Village. The
winds here became stronger and rains became heavier. |
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At 3AM on Thursday, November 10th, Nicole made
landfall just south of the festival grounds in Vero
Beach as a Category 1 hurricane. Our schedule showed
vendors would soon be arriving to set up. But that
couldn't happen. Nicole began her turn north to begin
her northwesterly trek across the Florida peninsula,
but further west than projected earlier, and moving
faster than many hurricanes we'd seen. By 1PM on
Thursday, the eye was all the way across the state
near Tampa, while we were still in the outer bands.
Our NRF board
met and decided to proceed with the weekend's
festival, but with setup delayed to Friday and other
Friday activities cancelled. It was a gamble, but the
weather Friday was beautiful and continued through the
weekend. Fortunately, we only had 2 vendors cancel,
and neither of these was due to the storm. Our deep
appreciation to all of our loyal (and new) vendors who
showed up in spite of the uncertainty to help make the
2022 Native Rhythms Festival a resounding success. |
Background
on This Year's Theme and Logo
Painted Raven's Annette Abbondanza introduces this year's theme
and logo.
Index
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Getting
the Word Out
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