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Welcome to the Lockn' Forum - The home of the original Lockn' Music Festival family!
Please note: This forum is in no way officially associated with Lockn' Festival or its promoters.
storm stories
Post by emly on Sept 19, 2015 14:55:24 GMT -5
We were just hanging in the staff camp when it hit. Lockn's security staff was entirely under a big reception tent, but the rest of us were camping out in the field. The rain was hard but pretty normal, and then the wind just surged, tents started flying across the field, and I ran to get under a popup with 4 guys holding onto it. the wind picked up the tent and the men fell down holding it. 2 of them ran, and me and this other guy were just on the ground clinging to this tent. there was no visibility at all, it was hailing and just deafeningly loud. it sounded like a tornado. we just stayed on the ground. when it was over, I went around asking if people were okay and nobody was hurt. the entire site was completely trashed. pop up tents were torn to pieces, camping tents all down, stuff strewn everywhere. some of the damage we saw included car windows smashed and a pop up tent lodged onto the hood of a minivan. I also heard a rear view mirror was torn off the side of someone's car and a lot of other cars had damage from flying debris. We didnt hear about the state of the festival until a couple hours later. Almost all of us staff were dismissed from work for Thursday and they werent letting anyone on the festival site unless they were required to be there, so we just hung out in the campsite all day.
Old Head
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Dave Mason!!
Number of LOCKNs attended: 6
Post by Andie Bee on Sept 19, 2015 19:05:22 GMT -5
Old Head
Help me scrape the mucus off my brain!
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
Number of LOCKNs attended: 6
Post by war fart on Sept 19, 2015 19:27:22 GMT -5
We were just hanging in the staff camp when it hit. Lockn's security staff was entirely under a big reception tent, but the rest of us were camping out in the field. The rain was hard but pretty normal, and then the wind just surged, tents started flying across the field, and I ran to get under a popup with 4 guys holding onto it. the wind picked up the tent and the men fell down holding it. 2 of them ran, and me and this other guy were just on the ground clinging to this tent. there was no visibility at all, it was hailing and just deafeningly loud. it sounded like a tornado. we just stayed on the ground. when it was over, I went around asking if people were okay and nobody was hurt. the entire site was completely trashed. pop up tents were torn to pieces, camping tents all down, stuff strewn everywhere. some of the damage we saw included car windows smashed and a pop up tent lodged onto the hood of a minivan. I also heard a rear view mirror was torn off the side of someone's car and a lot of other cars had damage from flying debris. We didnt hear about the state of the festival until a couple hours later. Almost all of us staff were dismissed from work for Thursday and they werent letting anyone on the festival site unless they were required to be there, so we just hung out in the campsite all day.
"You call this rain? Lemme tell ya about the microburst of '15..."
5/24-27 Dark Star Jubilee Legend Valley Thornville OH
6/13-16 Beardfest Hammonton, NJ
7/7 Outlaw Music Fest Hershey PA
7/18-21 4848 Festival Snowshoe WV
8/2-3 Billy Strings Bryce Jordan Center Penn State
8/29-9/2 - Karnival of the Arts (East) Kempton PA
9/19-22 Infamous Weekend Pops Farm VA
Post by emly on Sept 19, 2015 21:26:11 GMT -5
Everything I had in the tent was completely soaked, so the first few days camping were pretty rough and tumble. we hung stuff out to dry on the broken tents lol
The Answer Man
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Shakey Graves
Number of LOCKNs attended: 7
Post by Sneake on Sept 19, 2015 21:41:57 GMT -5
We're all here because we're not all there
Post by emly on Sept 19, 2015 22:07:17 GMT -5
We were also told storm damage was the reason the cell phone service was spotty the entire festival.
Old Head
Help me scrape the mucus off my brain!
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
Number of LOCKNs attended: 6
Post by war fart on Sept 19, 2015 22:15:12 GMT -5
We were also told storm damage was the reason the cell phone service was spotty the entire festival.
5/24-27 Dark Star Jubilee Legend Valley Thornville OH
6/13-16 Beardfest Hammonton, NJ
7/7 Outlaw Music Fest Hershey PA
7/18-21 4848 Festival Snowshoe WV
8/2-3 Billy Strings Bryce Jordan Center Penn State
8/29-9/2 - Karnival of the Arts (East) Kempton PA
9/19-22 Infamous Weekend Pops Farm VA
Old Head
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: BECKBECKBECKBECKBECKBECKBECKBECK
Post by jrtmom on Sept 20, 2015 0:17:20 GMT -5
I was there for the storm...I have lived in Virginia for 61 years and never have seen a storm like that. I was inside my tent and had it totally flatten on me for 20 minutes. I was trying to hold it off my face with my arms and legs. The sound the storm made was like a freight train so I was waiting for the tornado to hit, but they said it was "just a microburst". Well,this "microburst" uprooted trees, snapped others, and made origami out of everyone's ez ups and tents. I remember lying there thinking that my husband could just use my tent as my burial shroud, and praying, "Lord, if you're gonna take me now just make it quick". Be very glad you weren't here...seeing my tent flatten on my face is something I don't wanna see again...
Some poor guy in an RV had his awning totally ripped off his coach, and several of the portos got tipped over. I wouldnta have wanted to be in one of those, especially the ones that landed door side down!
Driving around in a golf cart on Thursday we came across a dumpster that was 5' by 20' entirely full of EZ up frames. Kinda like an elephant graveyard...spooky!
I was a volunteer who was supposedta work on Thursday, and although they weren't letting anyone in, they made us sit at the volunteer tent in case they needed us. That was the longest 5 hrs I've ever spent in my life.
Old Head
Help me scrape the mucus off my brain!
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
Number of LOCKNs attended: 6
Post by war fart on Sept 20, 2015 7:29:56 GMT -5
5/24-27 Dark Star Jubilee Legend Valley Thornville OH
6/13-16 Beardfest Hammonton, NJ
7/7 Outlaw Music Fest Hershey PA
7/18-21 4848 Festival Snowshoe WV
8/2-3 Billy Strings Bryce Jordan Center Penn State
8/29-9/2 - Karnival of the Arts (East) Kempton PA
9/19-22 Infamous Weekend Pops Farm VA
Old Head
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Dave Mason!!
Number of LOCKNs attended: 6
Post by Andie Bee on Sept 20, 2015 8:08:18 GMT -5
Merry Prankster
Look, a squirrel!
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: BIG Something
Post by mccjeff on Sept 20, 2015 9:11:49 GMT -5
What happens if I take both?
Old Head
Help me scrape the mucus off my brain!
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
Number of LOCKNs attended: 6
Post by war fart on Sept 20, 2015 9:16:29 GMT -5
5/24-27 Dark Star Jubilee Legend Valley Thornville OH
6/13-16 Beardfest Hammonton, NJ
7/7 Outlaw Music Fest Hershey PA
7/18-21 4848 Festival Snowshoe WV
8/2-3 Billy Strings Bryce Jordan Center Penn State
8/29-9/2 - Karnival of the Arts (East) Kempton PA
9/19-22 Infamous Weekend Pops Farm VA
Old Head
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: BECKBECKBECKBECKBECKBECKBECKBECK
Post by jrtmom on Sept 20, 2015 11:38:50 GMT -5
Post by emly on Sept 20, 2015 11:53:40 GMT -5
Also heard that people ran from the huge white reception tent because they thought the whole thing would collapse. I was told there was one injury on the festival site, but I think they were treated and we're fine.
There actually a xvideo on the Lockn YouTube with a guy saying if it was during the festival people could have been killed. W
I met a guy who said he called his wife to tell her he might not make it.
Post by emly on Sept 20, 2015 12:42:51 GMT -5
Merry Prankster
Disguised as a squirrel
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Anyone? Anyone?
Number of LOCKNs attended: 6
Post by smosey wales on Sept 21, 2015 14:35:23 GMT -5
And downtown, on more than one occasion, a microburst hitting the gravel roof of a tall building blew those rocks hard enough to break windows in a shorter building across the street.
I saw the video of the Lockn storm and it reminded me of hurricane/trop storms I've seen.
Feb 12 Billy Strings NFK
Feb 18 Marshall Tucker Band Philly
Feb 25 Marcus King Band NFK
April 6 Rosanne Cash NFK
April 15 James McMurtry NFK
April 20 Little Feat VaBeach
April 21 Blackberry Smoke NFK
July 2 Last Fair Deal w/John K VaB
July 23 Dave Mathews Band VaB
July 26 Robert Earl Keen C'ville
July 28-31 Floyd Fest BFE
Sept 24 Southern Culture on the Skids VaB
Nov 19 Dark Star Norva
Dec 3 Sky Dog VaB
Old Head
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Carlos Santana
Number of LOCKNs attended: 6
Post by buddy74 on Sept 21, 2015 16:26:05 GMT -5
This is the full interview. They played an edited version this past Sunday on the show. It (Sunday's show) was replayed on Sirius this morning and I think they said it would be played again this week, maybe Wed. afternoon(?). Jon Dindas was on the Sunday show giving an interesting account of Wednesday's storm and the next 36 hrs. involving the restructuring of the festival.
The Answer Man
If I could add one artist to the 2023 lineup: Shakey Graves
Number of LOCKNs attended: 7
Post by Sneake on Sept 21, 2015 17:03:28 GMT -5
We're all here because we're not all there