re: Endymion says it cannot reschedule due to tractor shortage, new policy

I don’t understand why they cancelled it to begin with - just scrape the stupid drunk off the road and roll on.

Now that they changed the rule allowing them if they require generators, can they roll behind Orpheus?

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Now that they changed the rule allowing them if they require generators, can they roll behind Orpheus?

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Haha


Having now ridden in Endymion for my 8th year, i can say without a doubt this is not going to happen.

They got our money for the year and they are not about to worry about 2020.


Man, they probably won’t even feel obligated to float riders from 14 + on of any type of discount or credit toward 2021 dues.

That’s how they roll

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"The Kerns don't have enough tractors to go around," Kelly explained, 

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There's a bunch of sugarcane baws that have tractors that could pull those floats.

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"The Kerns don't have enough tractors to go around," Kelly explained, "There is no way that we would be able to do it."

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Couldn’t they just get a couple of Ford and dodge pickups to pull floats?

Or is there some arcane rule that requires tractors?

In Houma, they use pickups to pull floats.

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Yea it’s not happening. We already got instructions on when to go get our leftover stuff off the float starting tomorrow

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Going Wednesday.

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The part on canal where it happened is a zoo

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Why is that?

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There's a bunch of sugarcane baws that have tractors that could pull those floats.

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Except it doesn’t work like that.


Kinda like all the internet people after Katrina seeing pictures of all the flooded school busses in the bus lot, and preaching how NOLA could have used all those busses to get people out....Who is gonna drive them? Where are they gonna go?—no hotels for hundreds of miles. Gas? Gas money? Many of the people stranded were poor as dirt Drivers insured? Driver responsible for old and sick people on bus when they have a heart attack from being old and on a hot school bus for 36 hours? Where do all those people eat? Money for food? Medications? money for lodging for 50 people?
...and, oh yeah, these things all need to all be sorte out in 24 hours with a cat 5 coming up the pipe.......not gonna happen—-easy to be a keyboard warrior from 1000 miles away.



Regarding tractors...

They have to be insured. What if ole baws tractor is not maintained properly, and something bad happens as a result? Kern’s tractors all fall under his insurance as a service provider, and are maintained by him, and have hitches welded on for the purpose of pulling floats.


And how are you going to get a hundred tractors from all over south Louisiana to NOLA last minute? Logistics.


Next people will be suggesting getting a few oilfield baws with jacked up King Ranch F350 Duallys to pull floats...you want a baw with a New Iberia haircut responsible for pulling 100 riders on a mega float through the streets of NOLA?

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Next people will be suggesting getting a few oilfield baws with jacked up King Ranch F350 Duallys to pull floats...you want a baw with a New Iberia haircut responsible for pulling 100 riders on a mega float through the streets of NOLA?

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As opposed to the guys that are employed by Kern 1week out of the year and look like they won the special ed lottery?

If each float had two to four people walking escort alongside like band chaperones you could manage the idiots without dealing with the idiotic tandem issue or barricading the entire route. Also I was at Endymion and some of those tractor operators clearly didn’t have much seat time.saw a couple almost stall out and jerk the floats pretty good. Really surprised they weren’t pulling them with hydrostatic tractors.