Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. One thing you can absolutely expect at our event site are weather extremes. Over the seven days of the event we can go from hot (and windy) to cold (and wet), and everything inbetween. And then there’s the unexpected… hail, lightning, cyclonic winds, flooding and dust storms.
The Blazing Swan event organisers have excellent plans and people in place to deal with emergencies. However, severe weather is an emergency which affects everyone at once. That means at least 3,000 people onsite and another 300 in the town of Kulin – and some of those people are the people whose job it is to help you in an emergency. When emergency services are spread thin, your Theme Camp might not be at the front of the queue. Severe weather, and it’s aftermath (including impassable roads and power outages) can also make it harder to get around the large event site, or even TO and FROM the event site.
So a good severe weather plan for Theme Camps involves doing what we can to reduce the impact of severe weather on our Camp, and to help us bounce back better afterwards. We may still need outside help, but if we can survive a little bit longer without it then we’re helping everyone – our own people AND Blazing Swan. One of our Theme Camp crew developed a ‘model’ severe weather response plan for Blazing Swan Theme Camps a few years ago. We’ve continued to improve and adapt it. Plans are good, but it does need to be said there’s another very important P. The key to any plan’s success is the people.
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