The Weather Network – The Glastonbury Festival kicked off its 35th year with four feet of flood water
Listen to The Weather Network This day in weather history podcast on this subject, here.
This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast from The Weather Network featuring stories about people, communities and events and how the weather impacts them.
—
The Glastonbury Festival is a five-day music and arts event that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. It was first created in September 1970 and has been held (almost) every year since. And in 2005, things got off to a bad start.
On Friday June 24, 2005, the Glastonbury Festival was about to kick off its 35th year when a thunderstorm hit the area.
Just found an old CD of photos from @glastonbury 2005. Most will have to get on Insta/Facebook, but when I tell you there’s gold, I mean GOLD pic.twitter .com/UmahIwQp0j
I have just found an old CD-rom of photos of Mo Stewart on Twitter: “Just found an old cd of photos from @glastonbury 2005. Most will have to go up on Insta/Facebook but when I say there’s gold I mean the GOLD pic.twitter.com/UMAHIwQp0j/Twitter” 2005. Most will have to get on Insta/Facebook, but when I tell you there’s gold, I mean GOLD Mo Stewart on Twitter: “Just found an old cd of photos from @glastonbury 2005. Most will have to go up on Insta/Facebook but when I say there’s gold I mean the GOLD pic.twitter.com/UMAHIwQp0j/Twitter”
— Mo Stewart (@The_Mighty_Mojo) Mo Stewart on Twitter: “Just found an old cd of photos from @glastonbury 2005. Most will have to go up on Insta/Facebook but when I say there’s gold I mean the GOLD pic.twitter.com/UMAHIwQp0j/Twitter”
The festival sold out in three hours and 20 minutes. A total of 112,500 people secured tickets for the anticipated festival. Headliners for the 2005 festival included The White Stripes, Doves and The Killers.
Click here to subscribe This day in weather history
Opening day was delayed as heavy rain and thunderstorms flooded the areas. Some areas of campgrounds, festival sites and even bathrooms received flash floods of up to four feet.
Dozens of tents were lost underwater and lightning destroyed power lines. Festival-goers were seen swimming to the tents to collect their belongings.
As it’s #Glastonbury week, here’s a throwback to my tent in 2005. It’s the beautiful big green next to the gazebo 😂 One I’ll never forget #50yearsofglastonbury pic.twitter.com/9NMMF1fKkE
How is it Mazzarazza on Twitter: “As it’s #Glastonbury week, here’s a throwback to my tent in 2005. It’s the beautiful big green next to the gazebo 😂 One I’ll never forget #50ansdeglastonbury pic.twitter.com /9NMMF1fKkE/Twitter” week, here is a throwback to my tent in 2005. It’s the beautiful big green next to the belvedere 😂 The one I will never do Mazzarazza on Twitter: “As it’s #Glastonbury week, here’s a throwback to my tent in 2005. It’s the beautiful big green next to the gazebo 😂 One I’ll never forget #50ansdeglastonbury pic.twitter.com /9NMMF1fKkE/Twitter” Mazzarazza on Twitter: “As it’s #Glastonbury week, here’s a throwback to my tent in 2005. It’s the beautiful big green next to the gazebo 😂 One I’ll never forget #50ansdeglastonbury pic.twitter.com /9NMMF1fKkE/Twitter” Mazzarazza on Twitter: “As it’s #Glastonbury week, here’s a throwback to my tent in 2005. It’s the beautiful big green next to the gazebo 😂 One I’ll never forget #50ansdeglastonbury pic.twitter.com /9NMMF1fKkE/Twitter”
— Mazzarazza (@Madgefan33) Mazzarazza on Twitter: “As it’s #Glastonbury week, here’s a throwback to my tent in 2005. It’s the beautiful big green next to the gazebo 😂 One I’ll never forget #50ansdeglastonbury pic.twitter.com /9NMMF1fKkE/Twitter”
Although the start of the festival was delayed, the sky cleared in the afternoon. Festival-goers put on their boots and waded into the festival.
Nine people were injured at the festival and the storm caused millions in damage. The 2005 Glastonbury Festival is known as “Farmageddon”.
For more about the flooded Glastonbury Festival in 2005, listen to today’s episode of ‘This Day In Weather History’.
This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast from The Weather Network featuring unique and informative stories from host Chris Mei.
Subscribe to “This Day in Weather History”: Apple Podcast | Amazon Alexa | Google Assistant | Spotify | Google Podcasts | iHeartRadio | Covered’
Thumbnail: Courtesy of Hilary Perkins/Wikipedia/CC-BY-SA-2.0
