Flooding at Glastonbury 2005

[69crafty]

Christ. I feel sorry for all the people who have left all their stuff in their tents. Imagine all the Pot Noodles that got wasted!

[Jimmmeeehhh]

where on the site was this?

[goonerash]

@Jimmmeeehhh ...bottom of pennard hill, up against the railway embankment.

[DigitalPrinciples]

The moral of the story: NEVER pitch your tent at the bottom of a hill.

[PotterMelanieDisney]

ummmmm................that happened to my tent at isle of wright festial this year!

[1mc001]

And only one person tried to save their tent lol

[balf1111117373]

Oh noooooooo my weeeeed

[mess1n]

Me and a friend were staying in the same tent, on an air bed. I woke up to the screams of my friend, with the ceiling of the tent about 5 inches from my face. We had to swim out haha.

[YawFuthaMucka]

Top tip, do up your zips!

[jimmyshitbags]

hahaha that would be so shit. i hope that wasn't the first day.

[Alfourthousand]

that sucks

[mycurse333]

I just watched a concert at Glastonbury on Paladia channel i think there was Muse MGMT and Slash and a few others lol

[MCFCRuss]

thats what happens when u pitch yer tent at the bottom of a hill, you gotta be there wednsday for a decent spot

[amigiac]

If you camp at the bottom of a hill in a ditch... etc...

[yppih07]

Wow im so lucky it stayed sunny when I went this year lol absolutely brilliant experience!

[frankieroandMCR]

Holy Shit o.o

[MaccerG]

Isnt glastonbury fun!

[DPTG23]

every fucking year eavis will give it loads about how much money they spend on draining for the site, and every fucking year this happens, thats how it feels

[ljmike1204]

damn a pool in front of youre tent nice

[PortoBot]

in front of your trent?! its in the tent!

[W1C1W]

when I awoke, thought I had pissed myself,

then I realized,

thats a bloody lot of piss mate

[aggrovator1983]

haha this is why i dont even take a tent...just acid and my wallet

[KEVtoCATH]

HOW MANY DIED

a festival for the upper classes now

it was around 1990 when glastonbury died,

kylie,jay zee ,,,,phil collins next year LOL

the reggae/ roots/peel stage is were i would go...fuck the pyramid

[rick182z]

he actually died during glasto?

[BespinBob]

RIP Ben S. We all miss you!

(passed away 2005 at Glasonbury. A local guy, much loved by all & much much missed). Peace x

[rick182z]

did he drown?

[1mc001]

@BespinBob What happend may i ask?

[lucasmical]

fuck teh flooding the festivals great!

[joebione]

However the tent jsut below us under the strain of the water that was now knee height, the tent was buckling under the strain and was a complete mess. We had to check wherever there were people inside as we hadn't seen the owners all morning. When they returned after it calmed down all of their belongings were completly wrecked.

[joebione]

Other campers came to our aid by putting our bags in their tents and one family even baby sat my 1 year old sister at the time while we unpegged and moved everything out of the water.We were lucky, the only thing that got wet were the clothes we wore that morning when we resucued ourselves.

[joebione]

The orginal creek and the new river formed to make one great mass of water running down the hill. The joining was where our tent was.

When we woke up that morning it felt as though we were camped on a water bed. Once we realised the situation we were in we had to get up quickly and noticied that we were not the only ones in danger of having all their clothes etc wrecked.

[joebione]

I was there that year. As i was with family we were camped in the family field.

We camped close the a fenced off creek.

When the rain came the creek burst its banks directly where our tent was camped. Not only that but the rain from the top of the hill had formed its own new creek/river and was running down towards our tents.

[busterbone]

We get flooding here in The Tex-ass too -mucky mess.

[ElvisGT2002]

What do ya expect ? Its a minging sh*thole to start with

[bloodythumbs3]

NOW THATS A ROCK SHOW!!!

[SpLeNdZ]

lol ..forgetting we do live in england.

were kinda used to that.

Glastonbury all day long,superb gig

[muheclen]

ekkkk but you know its always better live.....

[beatbasher]

Why you'd wanna pay so much money for this is beyond me. I'd rather watch from the comfort of my sofa.

Uh-oh, I'm getting old.

[ickledemon]

I was there...thankfully i was on a hill so we only got drips coming through he top of the tent!! I felt so sorry for the people who turned up on the friday wanting to pitch up!!

[mothercruncher]

I was there- the flooding MADE that event. Dunkurk spirit!

[PriestGodNeverPaid1]

damn thats bad don't want that to happen on wercher

[XxZuRagxX]

that's not glastonbury, its the norfolk broads

[trippydog]

Haha.... maybe they'll learn not to camp at the bottom of a hill!

[Rellizate]

It's not like you really have a choice when it's that crowded!

[gusb42]

Camp high kiddies!

[soulsista6]

god i remeber that....... i think im guna pitch on a hill this year!

[bearsagainstevil]

I took some still photos of people diving down to get cans of beer they left in their tents I dont think they knew the toilets were over . I camped on the top of the hill as im a old glasto hand , best festival in the country i will be there again this year

[tomcarswell]

Nay...THE WORLD!!!...and yeah always camp on a hill. by the cinema field is best in my opinion

[F1R38RAND]

We were right in the middle of this. We remember the lightning early in the morning and it started to pour down. A "river" formed, coming down the bank so we went to have a look and by the time we got back the tent was gently filling.

[F1R38RAND]

My girlfriend had put everything in the ruckascakcs and had tidied them onto the air beds, everything was floating so we put our bags on and legged it. Very nasty situation. Laugh when we look back, though.

[F1R38RAND]

"Ruckascakcs? What the hell am I on? Sorry; that was a really bad one. I'm blaming this "£4.99 Supermarket kkwydcboasrd".

[chriscooke108]

That was funny I didn't feel sorry for them, shouldn't have been so lazy and stayed at the bottom of the hill instead walking to the top of the hill (which isn't much effort considering what usually happens when it rains there).

[saievans]

To anyone who pitched up on wednesday it was touching on 30 degrees and the brook at the bottom was merely babbling at the time! Besides, didnt the river come tear arsing down the hill taking out everything in its way? err yes it did I think!

Im still goin to camp at the top this year!

[Rellizate]

Come on. The hill fills up fastest. You have to be lucky to get a place there.

[uber1and]

that friday in 2005 was so grim. I was camped about 100m from there but managed to escape any flooding. Thank goodness for Pear Cider!

[YouStarXX]

HaaHaa i camped in the middle of a hill :]

Thank God

I Had to move my tent at 4am :[

[erasershed1976]

Camping on top of a hill is better, opposed to camping at the bottom of one.

[pmpants]

Excellent video, our tent was just above the loos! great times!

[xsweetrevengex]

God it was awful, yet fun, amazing weekend

[hangovermonkey]

Jeez. Now I realise how I had blocked this incident out of my mind and was seeing things through rose tinted glasses! We were just up from there and only just missed being washed away by the sudden river that filled that part of Pennards Hill!

[JJ62]

Reading/Leeds are NOTHING compared with Galstonbury, my friend. Believe it....

[indieflex]

It's all about Reading/Leeds Fest.

[dayglowjoe]

Pah! Reading/Leeds is commercial sponsership rubbish. It's just band stages and nothing else. I would rather see a band at their own gig. Cos glasto has the bands, then it also has dozens and dozens of other amazing tents for totally random underground acts, performance art, totally new music you never heard of before. Loads of random stuff, and you can wander around all night, unlike reading/leeds.

[amrstephens]

no way! I have exactly the same shot from the same place on my mobile! Yours is much better quality... good work!

[PixieAstraea]

naw no one drowned, some guy died of a drug overdose though. after the floods there were scuba divers going into flooded tents to make sure no bodies...everyone put smiles on their faces and had a great time anyways!

[1000rpm]

It wasn't too bad actually. Unless you camped in this particular dip. Check out my vids to see a more sunny view.

[shyboynyc]

What a disaster. I read that one man drowned.