CANCELED! – 3/17 – St Patricks/Mardi Gras Parade – Call For Volunteers!

[Tim Kelley]

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A few of Arlington County’s programs are participating in the Clarendon Mardi Gras parade again this year and BikeArlington would like some volunteers to ride their bikes, and help throw beads and candy to the screaming masses! For those who have done it in the past, you can expect a similar procedure. Does anyone want to chime in with their experiences?

This year the kids from Phoenix Bikes are going to be riding with us again and we hope to have lots of friends from the forum come out too. Unfortunately, with the National Bike Summit happening at the same time and BA being understaffed, we’re not actually going to be able to ride in it. Our partners at the Car Free Diet and WalkArlington will be there again though.

If you want to participate, just leave a comment here on this thread and we’ll have more details on specific timing when the organizers give them to us–likely just a day or two beforehand. You can count on it being sometime from 6:30pm-9pm, or so.

Here is the official event details website: http://clarendon.org/mardi-gras/

And some photos from last year: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.440387282696460.93698.205971902804667&type=3

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[Tim Kelley]

@consularrider 79556 wrote:

So far the weather doesn’t sound too promising for Monday, March 17. Is this event cursed or doomed this year? :confused:

Top Men are monitoring the situation and will be the forum apprised of any changes.

[Tim Kelley]

FYI, here are the staging details for now:

“Monday, March 17th is the big day! We are in staging area 1 (#9 in parade order) which is the south side of Wilson Blvd between N Barton and N Adams. Staging begins at 7p and everyone needs to be in place by 7:30p. The parade will start promptly at 8p.”

[Tim Kelley]

Check back for updates!

Hello to everybody—We now have 46 entrants for the parade on St. Patrick’s Day, so thank you for participating. They are calling for a bit of snow on Sunday night (naturally) but they haven’t said anything about it turning into a big storm, and the high on Monday is supposed to be above freezing, so for now, the parade is a GO! If the situation changes, I will keep you posted.

Due to changes in the mix of participants, I need to make some relatively minor revisions to the parade order, and make new staging maps. I’m in the process of doing that now, so expect another email later today with more information.

[cvcalhoun]

Are we still on for tonight?

[PotomacCyclist]

12:25 am, March 17 post:

“Clarendon-Courthouse Mardi-Gras Parade is cancelled – again by snow on St. Patrick’s Day. What are the odds?”

https://twitter.com/Clarendon_org/status/445415623775223809

[PotomacCyclist]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=857995667549393&id=119033308112303&stream_ref=10

From the Clarendon Alliance Facebook page, 12:34 am today:

“The 2014 Mardi Gras Parade, which was cancelled due to snow, became the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. THE 2014 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE IS NOW CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW. What are the odds?”

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clarendon-Alliance/119033308112303

[Tim Kelley]

Cancelled! We’ll let you know if it gets rescheduled.

[rcannon100]

Have they thought about a fourth of july parade? Might not be too much snow then….

[cvcalhoun]

Sigh! The roads aren’t even bad at this point, and there are still several more hours in which they could be plowed to allow people to get there. Clearly they have never heard of Rule 5 or Rule 9!

[Tim Kelley]

An April Fool’s Day date is being explored for the new parade date. I’ll let you know if that actually happens.

[cyclingfool]

@Tim Kelley 79967 wrote:

An April Fool’s Day date is being explored for the new parade date. I’ll let you know if that actually happens.

Great… now it’s going to snow on March 31 or April 1. Thanks! :rolleyes:

[PotomacCyclist]

Or it might start off a series of derecho-related bike event cancellations. You never know what’s going to happen this year.

[cvcalhoun]

Ack! I could have gone either of the two previously scheduled times, but I have a rehearsal for Actor’s Nightmare (playing Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30, April 4 -19, 2014) that night! And given that I’m already missing the final dress rehearsal to be at the BAFS Happy Hour, I really can’t miss another rehearsal in the same week.

[baiskeli]

@cyclingfool 79998 wrote:

Great… now it’s going to snow on March 31 or April 1. Thanks! :rolleyes:

Or it will be an April Fool’s joke and there’s actually no parade.

[Tim Kelley]

No parade this year! See you next year.

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