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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: vincegun on February 18, 2013, 07:21:34 AM
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Just throwing this out there, but weather.com is showing potential for snow on friday/saturday in the york area. Light wintery mix and rain/snow showers, respectively.
I doubt it'll be a problem or anything, but the more you know.
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We already have yo monies! Bwahaha!
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I was just about to make a weather related post.
It would take a lot for us to cancel the event. That said, everyone please be careful!
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It will be nothing.. I remember in 2009 we got 12+ inches on the thurs - friday before Fites and we all made the trek.
Images to prove it they are attached
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I totally forgot about '09! Was that the year the snow plow caught on fire? I will have to see if I can find pictures of that.
There was a plow outside the hotel... ON FIRE!
EDIT/UPDATE: Nope, that was 2006!
(http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=497&g2_serialNumber=1)
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I have almost come to expect snow during the big winter lan. More years have had snow than not. I am just thankful I havent seen any naked lan goer's doing snow angels outside.
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The only way the event would cancel would be if the hotel itself was closed and the doors locked.
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If they do that: http://i.imgur.com/QMlEhJC.gif (http://i.imgur.com/QMlEhJC.gif)
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I remember '09. The turnpike West of Harrisburg was shut down. It was bad, but the show went on!
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Nuuuuuu mah monies!!!!!
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Local weather site for the area of the LAN party.
http://www.abc27.com/weather (http://www.abc27.com/weather)
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The blizzard in 09 was terrible, I think I was one of the last few to drive I084 before they shut it down.
Don't jinx us!
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Yea, the weather seems to hit every other year.
This thread got me wondering, how many years has it been since you guys started having the event at Park Inn vs the other Holiday Inn it was at before? That year was my first LAN event, been here ever since...
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That was .. 2007 I think. We uh... exceeded the power capabilities of that previous venue very quickly :)
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Yea, the weather seems to hit every other year.
This thread got me wondering, how many years has it been since you guys started having the event at Park Inn vs the other Holiday Inn it was at before? That year was my first LAN event, been here ever since...
2007 (http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_itemId=8354) was the only year we were at the Holiday Inn in York. We tried working with them getting the power we needed. Day of the event we came to find they didn't do it the way we agreed and rented a generator. They were not pleased with how much it cost them. I like the height of the ceiling at that location, it kept a bit cooler.
But FITES actually has been having their LANs at the current venue since 2002 I believe, but in the upstairs ballroom (http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_itemId=406). In 2004 (http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_itemId=5276) they had an event at an auction house. In August of 2006 (http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_itemId=3053) we moved to the downstairs ballroom, but only half of it. But FITES kept coming back to the Park Inn (formerly Holiday Inn) because they have done good by us. (RE: Powa)
More FITES history than you needed right? ;)
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Yea, the weather seems to hit every other year.
This thread got me wondering, how many years has it been since you guys started having the event at Park Inn vs the other Holiday Inn it was at before? That year was my first LAN event, been here ever since...
2007 ([url]http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_itemId=8354[/url]) was the only year we were at the Holiday Inn in York. We tried working with them getting the power we needed. Day of the event we came to find they didn't do it the way we agreed and rented a generator. They were not pleased with how much it cost them. I like the height of the ceiling at that location, it kept a bit cooler.
But FITES actually has been having their LANs at the current venue since 2002 I believe, but in the upstairs ballroom ([url]http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_itemId=406[/url]). In 2004 ([url]http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_itemId=5276[/url]) they had an event at an auction house. In August of 2006 ([url]http://gallery.fites.net/main.php?g2_itemId=3053[/url]) we moved to the downstairs ballroom, but only half of it. But FITES kept coming back to the Park Inn (formerly Holiday Inn) because they have done good by us. (RE: Powa)
More FITES history than you needed right? ;)
actually, that summary was pretty kewl, you should have a "History of FITES" post somewhere! And yea, that old venue had those high ceilings, but I like the current location (as long as we don't get kicked out of the hardware bar like last year, lulz).
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They ran out of Makers Mark : /
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actually, that summary was pretty kewl, you should have a "History of FITES" post somewhere! And yea, that old venue had those high ceilings, but I like the current location (as long as we don't get kicked out of the hardware bar like last year, lulz).
I didn't hear about you guys getting kicked out. HAHA!
But maybe we should do a history page. I thought there was more info on our about page, but seems there isn't. Maybe a project good project for us to do at some point!
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First bigger LAN was in one of the upstairs (ground level) rooms at the (then) Holiday Inn in June of 2004 and held 100 people. I remember this because I was moving into my first apartment the day after. I wasn't staff for this LAN, but have been for every other one. Man, a history page would take some thinkin' to remember.
To go waaaayyy back.....before we had these large events we were just 20-30 guys in a basement in Port Trevorton, PA. None of our "founders" are involved any more, but I've been around since the third "small" LAN (second one held in Port Trevorton) since 2003.