re: Not looking good for the weekend parades

The happy hour GFS model run shows why you don't get too hung up on the forecast this far out. Shifts the rain back to a bigger issue Sunday and has the heavy band well east fricking up Joe Cain Day in Mobile.

Still got 2"+ through Mardi Gras day, that is consistent. Just drops more o it Sunday and Monday. Obviously, subject to change but this should illustrate the idea. There's going to be a stalled front across the area. Little rainy impulses will ride it and dump a little rain, exactly when is for a magician or psychic to answer at this point.

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So now Thoth and Bacchus get the rain? Any chance its gets pushed into Monday?

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I interpreted that as everyone gets rain, but now Sunday is just blessed with the worst part of the rain.

You’re the only one saying anything remotely positive for Saturday, so I’ll blindly follow this.

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It’s still so far out

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True, last weekend when I looked this past Sunday it showed a wash out as of either Thursday or Friday. Sunday was perfect.

This just blows for all parades. Obviously I’m concerned about Sunday but I hate it for all parades.

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So you've already been with her, which means you already have them. You should save the insults for someone that can actually make good ones.

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Your buddy call for that backup, or did you just see a friend in need?

I’ll think of all the clever comebacks when I’m stuck inside with all the rain this weekend, maybe I can bounce a few more off and see if you approve.

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Thoth is as big as Endymion, member-wise, or it's VERY close.

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Actually, Endymion is about 3100 and Thoth is about 1700.

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Really it was only in 2006, after Katrina, when NOPD and the rest of the city were at a personnel lowpoint. You still had tons of people in "recovery" rebuilding homes, and all the resultant debris and trash lingering all over the city for months on end. Sanitation services weren't totally up and running, either.

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It happened four times. The first time was 2004 because the streetcar tracks were being laid on Canal St. The second and third of course was 2006 and 2007 - besides Mid City being a mess it was also easier from a logistical standpoint since the Extravaganza was in the Convention Center and then 2011 was the Sunday roll.

I ride in Endymion. Just got an email from my float lt. saying they are having a krewe meeting tomorrow at 6:30. He said he'd bank on them rolling Saturday unless it's incredibly bad.

To be fair, that meeting happens every Tuesday week of the parade. Is in no way due to current weather. It will be discussed, but they have same meeting every year.