Disappointing this year
by lostfantasy on 5/4/15Jacksonville Metro Park - JacksonvilleRating: 1 out of 5The show is usually great, but all of the first day was ruined. I understand that weather can't be helped, but the way it was handled was terrible. The announcement for the storm asked everyone to evacuate to their cars. They didn't tell you that you needed your tickets to get back in and ours got soaked in the rain and fell apart. They also didn't tell anyone bands were getting canceled. 2-3 got canceled in the first wave of storms. We waited it out to see Halestorm though. We managed to get to the front and right before they came on the warning went up again and we were told to evacuate. With no information from anyone at the festival, we figured they would be canceled too. We finally decided to leave because of that, got completely drenched trying to get to our cars only to hear them start playing after about 20 minutes of waiting for the rest of our party.
Even when people asked, no one would tell them what was going on. We were all pretty angry with the concert staff for failing to tell anyone anything besides the storm was coming and to evacuate.