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Splendor in the Grass ticket holders are urged to attend today after the first day of the music festival was canceled due to wet and muddy conditions. Key points: First day of Splendor in the Grass canceled amid heavier-than-expected rain Many who have tickets to set up camp find themselves flooded or unable to enter at all Organizers urge everyone with tickets to come today, making sure they are safe Hundreds of people who arrived on the first day of the three-day event on Friday found themselves stuck in a queue of cars for up to eight hours to get in, only to be met by a flooded campground. Organizers made calls to cancel the main stage act in the afternoon, as heavy rain was expected. Held in North Byron Parklands in the New South Wales region of Northern Rivers, festival co-founder Jessica Ducrou said it was the “worst weather” the festival has experienced in its 21-year history. “We’ve had muddy events before, it’s nothing new to us but I think the amount of rain the North River

Chaotic scenes emerge from the popular NSW music festival as heavy rains wreak havoc on attendees. Participants traveled to North Byron’s beautiful four-day festival, Splendor in the Grass, yesterday to start at 5pm. But bad weather has drenched the area, with some people forced to choose between sleeping in flooded campgrounds or in their cars. Tents were submerged in water, with some residents forced to seek alternative accommodation. ( ABC News: Tobias Loftus ) Load Others complain of waiting in long queues just to get into the site. Some frustrated ticket holders have taken to social media to raise their grievances. “Already in the car queue for 8.5 (hours), still potentially three hours to get to camp,” Harry Nicol wrote on his Twitter after midnight. Load Alex Gubbings told ABC News it took him about 12 hours to enter the Splendor page. “I think we were in line at about 4.30pm and we only got in at 4am,” Gubbings said. “It’s not moving, that’s for sure. I don’t think I’m going i