re: WAFB says over 200,000 people expected at Spanish Town

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WAFB says over 200,000 people expected at Spanish Town

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Not discounting how big Mardi Gras is for towns in Louisiana. It's still huge even if a fraction of those people show up. But they don't have an easy way to accurately track this and they tend to over estimate it to boost their own tourism and "economic impact" chops.

When it comes to Mardi Gras...multiply that number by .7 if the weather is nice. By .4 if the weather sucks.

New Orleans claims to get 1,000,000....its probably between 600,000-700,000.

Baton Rouge says they get 200,000. I think it's probably more like 140,000.

New Roads says they get 50,000. I think realistically it's closer to 35,000.