Woodstock ’99 is a perfect example of overcrowding as well. Human waste was literally getting into people’s tents. When floods amassed from the over abundance of human waste and dirty water it all flowed down, right towards the campers. Not only that, but they were located on the edge of a hill above the main camping area. Port-o-potties and showers were all located in one place, rather than strategically dispersed. Between the water situation and the fact that people had to walk across a mile and half of boiling hot tarmac, over 700 people throughout the weekend were treated for heat exhaustion. Ironically, the water fountains were destroyed by the very people who needed it out of sheer frustration and anger towards the festival organizers. Some believe that the festival developers did that on purpose so that they could squeeze every cent out of their attendees, but, when people saw that bottles of water were a staggering $4, and that there were only a few free water fountains that had lines longer than some Disney World rides people began to, to put it lightly, get frustrated. Although, what the organizers thought was a good idea was to tell pass buyers not to bring food and drink to avoid “spoiling”. Here is another question - what do you think the festival organizers forgot to tell the large amount of people that were buying tickets? To bring water. It’s probably common sense, but what do you think that many people would need during the three extremely hot days? Water. During it’s run, Woodstock ’99 was actually the 3rd most populated city in the state. What isn’t uncertain is that there were far more than 250,000 people in the crowd from people sneaking in and using fake passes to gain entrance) that were attending, and working at the festival. The festival took place in late July, and the summer weather was coming down hard on the 200,000+ people (some reported that close to half of million people were in attendance, but that figure is unreliable because sales of passes were capped at 200,000. Woodstock ’99 fell into a hellish landscape laden with crime and destruction. From the lineup to the location, everything was flawed and once things started to spiral out of control no one knew how to get things organized again. but, in the case of Woodstock ’99 it doesn’t even seem like anyone took caution with anything they did. Can organizers make educated guesses and estimations on how their event will work out? Of course. Can music festival producers tell the future? Of course not.
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