Feeling heat at EDC
Sun, creativity out in force on first day
THE sun was in full force Friday as Electric Daisy Carnival attendees stood in line at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, anticipating the opening of the gates for the first day of the three-day event.
Already they were feeling the effects of the triple-digit temperatures.
Close to the front of the line, a woman in a bathing suit top struggled to sit down. She put her head down, her blond, matted hair cascading over her face. Three girls fanned her as she sat. Next to her, a man with a rainbow skull tattoo on his chest poured water on her head and patted her neck with a tie-dye bandana.
As event staff were alerted, a member wearing a blue
Insomniac Experience T-shirt radioed for a medic.
“We have a lightheaded female over here,” she said.
Another staff member joined, offering support to another overheated woman, just feet away.
“They know they’re coming for three people, right?” she asked.
Minutes later, the crowd made way for another girl, being led by her friends. They were seeking some way to keep cool in the 108-degree weather.
Ian Catacutan balanced a few cubes of ice on his head as he waited the anticipated hour before the gates opened at 7 p.m.
Seconds later, they slipped off and shattered.
“Darn it, my ice,” he said. But a bag of ice sat at his feet. And he wasn’t the only one trying to keep cool.
“Can I ask for an ice cube?” A girl in black fishnet tights asked Ian. She came from Colorado with her husband. At 10:30 p.m., she said, she would watch her sister get married.
“Her dress is a little skimp
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ier than mine,” Amanda Hirsch joked. “It’s pretty much black lingerie.”
As the crowd snaked along the
1.5 miles of the speedway toward the promised land, the attendees put on a fashion show of sorts, with some of the estimated 100,000 patrons in tutus, string thongs, and furry black leg warmers. Another woman, adorned with glittery makeup and fake eyelashes, sported a fanny pack that warned concert goers to stay off drugs.
John Lewis from Sacramento wore countless beaded bracelets and curlers in the shape of Deadpool and
angel wings on his arms.
“Stay hydrated,” he said of his plans for the weekend.