San Antonio's Muertos Fest will go on regardless of thunderstorms in forecast

This yr’s Muertos Fest would be the largest but, that includes greater than 90 ofrendas from native teams and organizations. Credit score: Michael Karlis

Muertos Fest, scheduled for this weekend at Hemisfair, will go on regardless of a major likelihood of extreme thunderstorms late Friday afternoon by way of Saturday, organizers advised the Present.

The three-day gathering, which payments itself because the nation’s largest Día de los Muertos pageant, will get underway at 5 p.m. Friday with its Lighting the Candles of Reminiscence ceremony, adopted by a tribute to the late conjunto icon Flaco Jiménez at 8 p.m.

Bexar County shall be underneath a flood watch from 7 p.m. tonight by way of 1 p.m. Saturday. Remoted thunderstorms are anticipated drop 1-3 inches of rain on elements of San Antonio, in keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service.

Even so, Muertos Fest co-programmer Cristina Martez stated the pageant will go on as deliberate.

“Our mantra is that it’s not going to rain,” she stated. “However, it’s a rain-or-shine occasion. The forecast doesn’t appear to be it’s going to have an effect on occasion occasions, in order that’s what we’re hoping for. Nevertheless it’s rain-or-shine.”

Now in its thirteenth yr, that is the primary time Muertos Fest has operated as a three-day-event. What’s extra, this iteration is anticipated to be the most important but, together with greater than 90 ofrendas from native teams and organizations.

Given the amount of occasions going down downtown this weekend, metropolis officers are encouraging residents to make use of VIA’s Park & Journey service, which is able to supply free rides to and from downtown on Saturday, or take a rideshare service.

VIA’s Park & Journey service operates from Brooks Transit Middle, Crossroads Park & Journey and the Frost Financial institution Middle.

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