[Ansteorra] GW 2013 Attendance

[Evil Sara]

I heard this year he is looking into a water tower, as that is the only way
to solve the water line issues.  The number of camps and number of split
lines is too much for the city water lines to maintain.  And as someone
else mentioned, it's just 10 days a year to the city, so it's not thier
responsiblity.  I honestly have no idea how much a water tower will cost,
but I can imagine it's not cheap.

In our camp we solved the outages by running a tank system with a subpump
like you have to do for in camp showers.  Someone was sure to refill during
water on times, and when the water was out we had a reserve.


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Robert G. Ferrell <rgferrell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 3/19/2013 8:40 PM, David Brown wrote:
>
>> Provide the money. Does he not charge for the site? What does he do with
>> that money?
>>
>
> Huge infrastructure and overhead, large staff, hotel, golf course, and
> additional properties, not to mention mortgages, loans, and other debts.
> King's Arrow is a major enterprise with major costs associated. The money
> we pay to attend Gulf Wars does not give Larry enough income to do much
> more than maintain things as they are. His other income-producing events
> (church camps, Boy Scout retreats, etc.) have dropped off significantly
> since Katrina and that has impaired his ability to make improvements. He
> does manage to make improvements every year, despite this. For example, the
> merchant area had three additional breaker boxes and two more lights
> installed this year, as well as a common tent in the food court.
>
> Larry really does go above and beyond for the SCA; we've been his most
> reliable income source for many years. While Gulf Wars is going on, he
> essentially does not sleep. He makes or supervises repairs, grades the
> roads, mows, buries garbage, runs the restaurant, pays the bills, deals
> with the myriad issues of the hotel, maintains his own fleet of golf carts,
> keeps the golfers happy, answers dozens of phone calls a day, keeps ice and
> sodas stocked, deals with many plumbing problems, acts as landlord for many
> different tenants on the property (with all the maintenance issues that
> entails), and is generally on call 24/7.
>
> To be brutally honest, we get more out of Larry and his property than he
> gets from us in return. Gulf Wars is an institution now, like Pennsic.
> King's Arrow Ranch has 22 years of the SCA's sweat, blood, toil, laughter,
> and tears instilled in it. Starting over at a new site is not something I
> personally can comfortably contemplate.
>
> What does he do with that money? He provides us with a place to make magic.
>
> CoB
>
>
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