[Steppes] Re: Weather at Steppes

[simone]

Broken O Ranch in glenrose were Guardian of the Tor has been held the last 2
years has a vast amount of land above the flood line. and is relitivly in
expensive. you would have to bring in water and portajohns . Liminted
electric on site.  and the Site owners are very much SCA friendly

Simone
----- Original Message -----
From: <sunnifa at housewhiteshark.org>
To: <steppes at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Steppes] Re: Weather at Steppes


> For my part, I am willing to carry water and forgo electricity. If I
> absolutely need electricity, I have a portable 6 hour battery pack that
> will run anything, nearly. Wild animals will mostly stay away,
> especially if people make their garbage inaccessible. I would prefere a
> site mostly clear of nettles and prickly pear.
>
> Primative, but grassy/clear. Keep in mind that enterprising young lords
> and ladies might be willing to haul water for those who can't, for small
> fees or barter.
>
> Sunnifa
>
> wjwakefield at juno.com wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, how much land do we need to hold a Warlord sized
> > event?  And how primitive will we put up with?
> >
> > Would we carry water from a well?  Can we do without electricity?  What
> > about nettles, burrs, fire ants, etc?  Wild animals?  All things we
don't
> > have to worry about at Canton...
> >
> > What would we be willing to pay in site fee for a very primitive area on
> > private land around Weatherford?  (extremely remote possibility).
> >
> > We need to clarify our criteria if we decide to look for another site...
> >
> > Suzanna, herbalist
> >
> > On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 18:12:00 -0500 Cairenn Day <cpenny at swbell.net>
> > writes:
> >
> >>We got out of Burnett, at least a couple of times, a Couple of hours
> >>before most of the site went under water.  I am sure the flooding
> >>patterns have changed and probably it also floods worse than it
> >>used
> >>to.  A lot of development in that area.  Canton is in a slightly
> >>wetter
> >>part of the state and it may somehow be in a 'rain shadow' caused by
> >>the
> >>Metroplex.  I have lived in the same house my entire life and our
> >>weather patterns have changed.  In the 1950's, our area got a lot
> >>of
> >>heavy storms, large hail and in '56 a tornado within a half mile,
> >>sometime in the '60's, this began to change and now the storms hit
> >>a
> >>couple of miles north or south or west.  I can be driving through a
> >>driving rain, until I close to home and the rain will let up.
> >>Rupert
> >>used to not believe it, but after living here for a number of
> >>years,
> >>even he believes it.  It may be that Canton has the opposite
> >>problem.  I
> >>looked at the state parks web site and there doesn't seem to be any
> >>possible sites there, I haven't heard back from my e-mail, yet.  A
> >>lot
> >>of weather goes north of the Metroplex, we will probably need to
> >>get
> >>southwest of the area, to avoid some of the rain.  Is there
> >>anything
> >>down around the Cleburne/Glen Rose area, that's not on the
> >>riverbanks?
> >>
> >>Cairenn
> >>
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