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Note: While it’s true that many things are based on actual events, the characters contained within this strip are not meant to be direct analogs for actual people. They are not based off of people living, dead, or undead and any resemblance is coincidental. Nor are they based off of Ferrets.
Because that would be weird.
Smooth move exlax!
This sounds like it’s a fun Bork Con lol.
So, funny story regarding Nan Desu Kan here in Denver… We had some jacks spray painting styrofoam in their hotel room. Bad news: it tripped the chem sensor on the fire alarm. Good news: We can apparently evacuate the convention floor in about 5 minutes.
Thankfully, we got the clear to go back in and got everyone back inside about 10 minutes before the tornado sirens started going off. So, once again, I can, as a convention staffer, read your comic and say, “Yep, that’s happened to me.”
I have Bad Weather Stories. I have Convention Stories. I do not have any Bad Weather Convention stories, though have heard quite a few.
Keep doing cons long enough, and the odds say you’ll end up with your own eventually 😛
I hope you see this, Trae. I finally made it to your website(s). You gave me your cards at the geek.kon in Madison and I said I’d leave you a note so you knew I actually visited your site.
Anyway, keep up the good work.
Most likely, though as a country boy form Nebraska I confess I’m less worried by bad weather than I might be. So long as the tornado doesn’t hit the house, it’s not worth worrying about.
Not a story about a convention i was involved in, just one i attend every year.
3 days before the convention is due to start there is heavy rain, which follows several months of rain. That night a local river backs up, and all the drainage in the area of the convention hotel goes wrong.
The basement and ground floor of hotel get covered in Sewage. Hotel is closed. Suddenly convention which has been running smoothly, despite having added a massive once off event that would bring in an extra 200 people (normally 500 person con), is now in all sorts of trouble.
They managed to get space in another venue, which had issues but was at least open. They managed to have con booklets with maps for the right venue, and they communicated issues well.
But i can only imagine how bad it was for those poor convention runners.
Yeah! Tornado Con! 😀
Two years (three?) ago I recall the crazy snowfall we had at NBC. It wasn’t “inclement weather” proportions, but my poor friends did run out into said snowstorm to get me medicine. Con plague hit me hard on day one.