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what the hail?! i survived the edina art fair hailstorm of '08!! barely. what a surreal experience... when i think about what we went through on the corner of 50th and france at 6:15pm on saturday, may 31st... it seems almost like a dream, or more like a nightmare. *sigh* apparently, the storm was to miss us... i wasn't too worried. we tied down to our weights and zipped up what tarps we could in the 5 minute warning we had, and then...
while standing in 8 or so inches of rushing ice water, in a soaking wet dress and bare feet, being pelted with ice balls the size of brussel sprouts, holding up a crumbling tent and watching, with horror, the poor glass blower in the booth next to me try and protect what work he could and looking to my equally wet and horrified husband in the opposite corner who was trying to hold his end of the tent down in the massive gusts of wind... i wondered, "why the heck am i doing this?!" "i need to abandon ship and run!" honestly though, i was probably "safer" with my now destroyed tent over my head than out in the street with no protection at all. so i stayed in there and rode out the 15 minutes that seemed to go on forever... when it finally did stop, and we were able to step out into the street again, the adrenaline began to wear off and the shock of it all started to kick in. i had 4 inches of hail inside my booth! it looked like someone dumped giant styrofoam balls everywhere. walls were bent... some of my paintings were buried in ice...
here is a link to a very amateurish video i shot with my camera... please pardon my potty mouth... i was in shock.
"oh-my-goodness" just like laumeier, there were booths blown totally away... people who lost everything... and just like laumeier, i fared better than expected. i lost a few pieces... some suffered minor water damage... i lost my tent (well, two tents actually.... long story), but we weren't hurt, and the majority of my work is okay. i've got a new and much better tent already ordered and on it's way. :) it should be here just in time for the stone arch art festival in two weeks, which (fingers crossed) hopefully has much better weather than what i have been through this season so far! que sera! it's all part of the game, i guess.
on a lighter note! :) my last two shows were both one day shows in the same bright and sunny weekend. the marion arts festival and the valley junction spring art market. i won 3rd place at marion and best of show at valley junction!! i've got a pretty ribbon and a darling trophy sitting in my studio to remind me that "you love me! you really love me!"
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