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 Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:52 pm
let's see...
band camp- 95 degree heat with no clouds and everyone got severe sunburn (I still have horrid tan lines from it) because they wouldn't give us time to reapply sunblock
practice-downpour, lightning right overhead and they still made us march
also incredibly windy; guard had to not use flags because every time they did a toss it would land twenty feet away and they didn't want people getting hit
not to mention the horrible cold. My lips got stuck to my mouthpiece. Snapping horns down hurt like hell.
competition-again, incredibly windy and downpour. Not fun.
then there's the legendary mud bowl. I wasn't there, but my sister was. At one competition several years ago, the rain was really bad and the competition had already started, so they couldn't just cancel. Most bands dropped out, but we marched anyway. People were ankle deep in mud, at the shallow side. Shoes, socks, lots of things lost in mud. But, hey, our school won for once! The school had to get an astroturf field after that.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:15 pm
ugh, it sucked! it was our homecomming night, horrible!!
there was snow on the ground and the majorettes were in there smallest outfits and i play flute and piccolo most of the band could'nt even play anymore we had to play a song like that for 10 minutes, mind u we were standing still, it was horrible!! crying
that or
the day i passed out from heat exhaustion,i was carried off the field >< it was so hot and in our full uniforms most of us were dizzy and sick, but we marched the whole day and woke up at 7 to march the whole next day sweatdrop
that was our worst worst but i'm only a freshman so i have plenty to go through lol ^^
pm if u wanna talk heart
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:44 am
it was a over time practice that ran until 9.30
so it was dark
and then it started to hail
a below freezing temperature trumpet mouth piece is bad enough, let alone when you can't feel your hands
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:25 am
once it was kinda cold out and we marche in the pouring rain which isnt good 4 woodwinds so we put them under the bleachers when we finally got to go into the school we walked back and it stopped raining >.<
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:24 am
Once, a big squall decided to kick in right in the first 12 seconds of the first football game of this past season. We didn't even march. We ran...to the nearby school. My sousa also got a nice reservoir of water.
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 5:04 pm
Massive sleet and hail while we were out practicing. Note that it was about 45 degrees out at said time, and it was awful. We had to run the pit in as quickly as possible, and my poor woodwind comrades and I feared for the lives of our instruments.
Bandcamp this year. 95-100* heat, everyday, bright sun, multiple people passing out or getting sick. For TWO WEEKS about 7-8 hours a day outside. I love band camp 8D. (Note that this is in Ohio, which is not somewhere that should ever be that warm)
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:42 pm
wow i mostly came here to read what you guys have gone through. pretty crazy. im a freshman and my first year all the competitions were nice. perfect weather(some a little hotter and some a little colder), one day it was insanely windy. during practice though it starting pouring and everyone was soaked. the funny thing was it started pouring when the intense music started then let up when the slow prettier music started. it was pretty cool. but then guard had to dry all their flags. which took up alot of room. and we actually performed veeeery well during the rain. my absolute woooooorst day to march was my first day of band camp. i was at a wedding the first week when everyone else had cool cloudy weather. it was the hottest day of the year (which is pretty hot cuz i live in south US). i started getting over heated and puke coughing. awful awful experience. i had to sit out for like 20 minutes or so.
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:54 pm
100+ degree heat. And on top of that, it was humid. We actually had the News Channel whatever number come down, and the thermometer said 145. o__O Then again, the thermometer was in her pocket before she took it out.
And then we had a hurricane come through. REALLY strong wind. Not a good day for the guard and sousaphones.
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:46 pm
I haven't experienced much for bad weather. I think my worst was our first performance last year. It was raining and the wind was blowing so hard, you could hardly see (I distinctly recall having a difficult time watching the senior drum major, as I had water blowing into my eyes). The field was so wet, we marched in our jeans and t-shirts to keep from destroying our uniforms early on. Added to that, it was our first performance...
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Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:01 pm
[ ] Snow accompanied by strong winds. It was weird, because it started when we went on the field and pretty much stopped when we got off. Things in the pit were falling over and our backfield drum major got taken down by a backdrop. It was scary. []
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:24 pm
snow, and once It was literally raining baby spiders. gonk
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:57 pm
I think the worst conditions would be when it started POURING! And be pouring, I don't mean "pouring", I mean Texas rain, because everything is bigger in Texas.... except for snow...
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:21 pm
I live in Alaska, on an island.
So when it says something like 40 degrees which is what the forecast said, it usually means it's like 32 degrees, So we were marching along, and then it starts sprinkling... The next thing we know, it starts raining harder! So at the end, we're all soaking wet, and our instruments too...
Best weather I ever played in... it was 60 degrees, the sun was out, but bees kept coming towards us, and some of the other girls and I would break the formation to run away. [: It didn't help that the saxophone-ists were being dorks.
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:47 am
Usually, its not too bad in Houston, rain wise...
Don't start talking about humidity and heat though, in 95+ degree weather with high humidity (I'm talking above 90 on barometer) the evaporative cooling our bodies use to cool us off doesn't work. My band rehearses on a pavement parking lot, so all that heat is also reflected into our faces. The first thing we all stress to incoming freshmen is that they are allowed to fall out during practice or whatever if they need water or feel ill. In the first speech our head director gives, he tells us its more important to the staff that we stay healthy and alive than pushing ourselves past our limit. Its kind of scary, we have at least one ambulance emergency, because of the heat/humidity, every year between July and November...
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:08 am
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