To the community,

Twenty-thousand festival-goers in town during winter, when we hope to have snow, would be tricky to deal with during a situation where the roads are closed and gas line to town is cut for a week as it was early in 1986. Heat? Food? Sanitation?

How about evacuating those 20,000 to 27,000 people plus the 21,000 residents during a wildfire if there are festivals during other times of year? Since the Santa Rosa fires and Angora/Cascade fires we know our town is dramatically at risk. There will be more illegal camping and camp fires around the college, Bijou Park and off Pioneer Trail with festivals in mid-town during mild weather.    

If the City Council continues support for SnowGlobe and considers three more festivals, I implore them to increase the patrolling of our surrounding meadows and woods. I can leave town during these festivals so the pounding doesn’t really matter to me, but I sure want my home to return to.

The City Council will be discussing the SnowGlobe contract with the possibility of extended it for many more years March 6. The meeting starts at 9am. If you can’t be there, this is their email: citycouncil@cityofslt.us — for comments.

Thank you, 
Diana Hamilton, South Lake Tahoe