If a photo was taken from this same angle yesterday, you would see wall-to-wall sweltering school children and their frazzled, desperate parents shoulder to shoulder around Big Tex at the State Fair of Texas.Like my friend Tracy, who unfortunately took his family to the fair on Monday and ran into the perfect storm: Columbus Day, a concert by the Jonas Brothers, and a day off for Fair Day for 22 Metroplex school districts.
The Dallas Morning News had this quote from Steve Ledbetter, manager of the fair's gates department: "This is one of the largest crowds I have seen in the history of the State Fair of Texas. They were just so compact in there, like sardines in a can."
Did I mention the high temperature was 94? And that was in the shade at DFW International, not on the asphalt jungle of a crowded Midway.
If you've ever been to the State Fair of Texas on a busy day, Monday was even worse than you can possibly imagine, according to Tracy, who spent a total of four hours just getting into and out of Fair Park.
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