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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 2518012" data-attributes="member: 10479">Well, it will be hot.  But the place is completely shaded by trees and it is a pavillion.  Being a park, we'll get the best of whatever breeze there is and we'll be protected should there be a light sprinkle.However, if there is a raging thunderstorm or it turns out to be one hundred and ten degrees in the shade with no wind, we'll see that posibility coming based on the general forecasts earlier that week (and right up to that day) so we'll have ample time to have some sort of contingency set up.  There will probably be only about fifty or so of us and between the convention center proper and all of the various halls attached to the numerous hotels, downtown Indy can easily handle two to three times what Gencon throws at it now.  The place I stayed had a perfectly good gameroom/meeting room with a pool table and other whatnots, including doors that opened up onto part of the Canal Walk, that went unused practically the whole time I was there.  I'm sure we'd have a good number of options available to us.As an example, if we made the call that morning and told people to check and see if "two Canadian flags are flying instead of one" to mean the outdoor venue is OFF, people could easily swing through whichever hotel is hosting the Canadiana Suite for last minute instructions (or to help carry some of the picnic fixins!) before venturing the few blocks over to the park across Ohio Avenue.It's also not that tough to set up a couple of fans as a cooling station, and there's even the possibility of using a small, portable generator if there is no onsite electrical source.  C'mon, work the problems, people . . . <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />(Fick - Once you make some headway and gain a contact, maybe you could inquire if there is an electrical source and if there is an extra charge for it (if, indeed, reserving the space is possible and comes with a fee).)</blockquote>

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