The organisers should have expected a month's rain in 72 hours ??? and planned for it ???... are you guys for real ???
Please folks .. look out of the window occassionally - and not the one Bill Gates invented - .. there's a REAL WORLD out there, with real problems and sometimes no sensible solutions. Fairford is part of the Cotswold Water Park area ... note the word WATER ... the water table is very high, and there was ABNORMAL rainfall... hence it flooded.. is that concept so difficult ??? I'll repeat it ..
Abnormal rain = flooded ground
A contingency plan can only cover a foreseen event ... 31 days rain in 3 was not foreseen ... ok .. make a plan in case it happens again .. but these folks are NOT clairvoyent ... apparently many of the writers here suffer with/are capable of 20/20 hindsight .......so easy that way isn't it ??
Having seen some of the work that was done to try and keep it going, I would like to say THANK YOU to those folks who worked long and hard, and still ended up with nothing to show for all their efforts... there were many of you .. and every single one deserves praise.