A well-liked music competition has been lashed with heavy winds and rains, turning its pristine floor into muddy fields and bogging dozens of vehicles.
A Day on the Green went forward with its deliberate competition at Mt Duneed Estate, close to Geelong, on the weekend regardless of forecasts of damaging winds and thunderstorms.
By Sunday, tractors had been required to get bogged vehicles out of the paddock.
Crowded House, Angus & Julia Stone and The Waifs headlined the premier music competition, which value upwards of $129 for entry.
Attendees partied into the evening regardless of the stormy climate, with social media photos depicting many donning raincoats and tarps amid the downpour.
Mt Duneed Estate issued a press release on Sunday the place they stated they had been “upset” by the impression of the climate.
“The organisers expected last night to be wet, but definitely not to the extent that it became,” a spokesman stated.
Tractors had been deployed early on Sunday morning to assist transfer vehicles bogged within the slush in a single day.
Local farmers and volunteers even pitched in to maneuver the autos and by 12.30pm, there have been solely 14 vehicles left onsite.
“Please make your way to your cars ASAP as we have a lot of tractors waiting with very few people at their cars,” a Mt Duneed Estate spokesman stated on Sunday.
“Thanks so much for you patience. We are all doing the best we can.”
Roundhouse Entertainment, the competition organisers, stated the occasion continued after “extensive consultation” with stakeholders.
“We take the safety of our patrons very seriously and work diligently with police, emergency services and other stakeholders to ensure this,” a spokesman informed The Herald Sun.
“All decisions made are done based on the advice to hand.”
An analogous state of affairs unfolded in Aberfeldie, Melbourne as organisers behind the Illuminate the River competition pulled the pin attributable to damaging wind gusts of over 85kmh.
Minimum temperatures throughout Victoria are forecast to drop beneath 15 levels subsequent week as a chilly entrance strikes throughout Australia’s southeast, making it really feel “closer to Winter”.
“It’s not quite as nasty a change for NSW and Central Australia as we’ve seen a couple of times already this month,” Sky News Meteorologist Rob Sharpe stated
“But it’s remarkably cold, we’re almost into Summer now and we’re still talking about Winter-like weather in the southeast of the country.”
