{"id":3648,"date":"2011-05-19T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2011-05-19T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:59:51","slug":"rain-and-hail-put-thorntonfest-under-water-annual-city-festival-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/rain-and-hail-put-thorntonfest-under-water-annual-city-festival-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain and hail put ThorntonFest under water; Annual city festival cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/_qM6V6-HRzM0\/TdVZeqHrCKI\/AAAAAAAAEi4\/UaIIJGEsOew\/s800\/2011-05-19_115434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Thornton Multipurpose Fields at 108th Avenue and Colorado Blvd were flooded by heavy rains and hail on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. (City of Thornton)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/_qM6V6-HRzM0\/TdVZeqHrCKI\/AAAAAAAAEi4\/UaIIJGEsOew\/s288\/2011-05-19_115434.jpg\" alt=\"The Thornton Multipurpose Fields at 108th Avenue and Colorado Blvd were flooded by heavy rains and hail on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. (City of Thornton)\" width=\"288\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Thornton Multipurpose Fields at 108th Avenue and Colorado Blvd were flooded by heavy rains and hail on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. (City of Thornton)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s bout of severe weather dropped more than 2 inches of rain and buried parts of the city in a blanket of white hail.\u00a0 All of it was too much for the City of Thornton\u2019s Multipurpose Field which was submerged by the deluge and the city has announced that ThorntonFest has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the Saturday forecast calls for a nicer day, we must make the call now,\u201d Thornton Community Services Executive Director Mike Soderberg said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofthornton.net\/Departments\/ManagementServices\/Communications\/NewsReleases\/Pages\/Thorntonfest2011Cancelled.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a press release<\/a>. \u201cAttempting to host an event on fields this wet would result in tens of thousands of dollars in damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/severe-weather-pays-a-visit-to-thornton-time-lapse-video-captures-hail\/\">Severe weather pays a visit to Thornton; Time lapse video captures hail<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The annual festival draws tens of thousands of visitors and is highly popular with residents. \u00a0All related events have been cancelled as well with the exception being the Cottonwood Classic 5K.\u00a0 That event will still take place at 8:00am at the Thorncreek Shopping Center.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the severe weather yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/City-of-Thornton-Colorado\/113903586116\" target=\"_blank\">the city posted images of the fields submerged<\/a> under water.\u00a0 Thornton has recorded 2.25 inches of rain in the past 24 hours and parts of the city saw hail reach depths of 3 to 4 inches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is more disappointed than our staff,\u201d Soderberg said. \u201cThey work for hours preparing for these events and watched Wednesday as all of that work flowed down Grange Hall Creek.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For all the latest Thornton weather news, follow us on <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thorntonweather\"><strong><em>Twitter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> and \u2018like\u2019 us on <\/em><\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThorntonWeather\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u2019s bout of severe weather dropped more than 2 inches of rain and buried parts of the city in a blanket of white hail.\u00a0 All of it was too much for the City of Thornton\u2019s Multipurpose Field which was submerged by the deluge and the city has announced that ThorntonFest has been cancelled. \u201cEven though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/rain-and-hail-put-thorntonfest-under-water-annual-city-festival-cancelled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rain and hail put ThorntonFest under water; Annual city festival cancelled<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[127,387,732,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}