ST - Elfsea Springfaire Site

[Chiara]

The last time that they had a weather alert out there and the site was being
used by the Amtgarders all the emergency services were available and used
with great efficiency. A tornado touched down on the site. The city put the
members up in hotels until their cars could be retrieved. This was before
the roads were finished.

I would also like to let all of you know that all the major improvements on
that land have been made by the Amtgarders and I understand that they own an
interest of the land as well. They have worked it for the last 5 years
building up the roads and leveling the ground. It is a huge effort on their
part. Many private donations on their part have been collected to do all
this work. If you want showers and restrooms in the numbers that can
accommodate us know that they will be part of the effort to get them in.
This may be a great opportunity for you all to work jointly on improvements
with them.

I can put you in touch with the individuals that are the movers and shakers
of this project if anyone wants more information about the details of the
site. I believe they started an autocrat's book specifically for this site
years ago and update it after each event as it is this area's chapters main
site for all events. They even rent a tractor specifically for this event
incase there is ever another weather emergency again. All the cars had to be
towed out last time there was a bad rain storm.

Sincerely,
Franchesca Havas
McKinney, Texas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Conal Fitzgerald" <conal at drunkenbard.com>
To: <steppes at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: RE: ST - Elfsea Springfaire Site


>
> > The Tanglewood Forest site is lovely, and improving
> > dramatically.  I hope y'all will come to Spring Faire
> > and enjoy it.
>
> It is a nice site, and far enough from major roads that you don't even
have
> to hear cars going by.  However, therein lies one of its problems.  Has
> anyone been in touch with the Sheriff's dept and whoever provides
ambulance
> services down there to make sure that they've learned where the place is?
> Even for those of us who have been a few times, and had to swim out during
> the flood, that road can be hard to spot.  I wouldn't want my life to
depend
> on an ambulance driver trying to find it based on phoned-in directions,
> without benefit of it being marked on a map somewhere.
>
> > I don't believe it's large enough to accomdate Steppes
> > Warlord.
>
> I can just see that one.  15-story tents and 3-tier stadium seating around
> the listfield.  Not to mention the need for a parking shuttle from the
> KMart.
>
> > Perhaps in the future, after additional
> > development is completed, but I doubt Warlord would fit
> > on that site within the next two or three years.
>
> It's more of a small-to-medium event site, unless they've made a lot of
> changes since I last camped there.  While there are a few fairly remote
> sites, there's really not enough straight-line distance between most of
the
> campsites to get very many loud encampments away from an equal number of
> quiet encampments unless you make the loud ones sit in each others' laps.
>
> Conal Fitzgerald
> conal at drunkenbard.com
>
>
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