It was set up to be one of the biggest weekends of the summer festival circuit, but Mother Nature had other plans for thousands of dance music fans. Both Veld Music Festival at Downsview Park in Toronto and Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park faced major weather disruptions as severe summer storms rolled through the Great Lakes region bringing heavy rain, lightning, and strong winds that forced attendees to scramble for shelter.
Severe overnight rain poured down across downtown Chicago, swamping Grant Park with up to 4 inches of water and transforming key thoroughfares into mud pits. The national weather agency in Canada…
