As pointed out earlier, Halloween is not exactly a “holiday”. Besides - what if tornadoes, or lightning, was forecast? Would you still have a problem with postponing it? How about if there is a tornado alert on July 4 - do you just say, “Sorry, but there will be no fireworks this year”? (I was in a Kansas City suburb in 1992 when there was a tornado warning on July 4; most of the fireworks shows were moved to July 5. On the other hand, in 2012, the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington was stopped halfway through because they had to evacuate the area ahead of an incoming storm, and they didn’t finish it at a later date.)
My main worry would be, there are people who still drive at night on Halloween, and driving in heavy rain is bad enough without having to worry about hundreds of kids in the streets.
There was a TV show recently (IFC’s Out There) where Halloween was cancelled by a major storm, so they moved it to the spring (and called it “Springoween”). This had the advantage for the kids in that stores don’t usually stock “fun size” candy except around Halloween, so everybody was handing out full size candy bars.
What surprises me is the ability of towns to coordinate “official” dates (and, in some cases, hours) for trick-or-treating with all of the people who live there with any degree of success.
Yeah, really. It’s raining here and I am freezing my butt off but the kids are going out no matter what happens. Unless they don’t want candy. Their call.
I think the real difference is that now parents almost always go out with their kids on Halloween and THEY don’t want to get wet and cold.
Note that I will not be trick or treating with my kids. They are 10 and 8. They are allowed to go to any house that is within their normal roving grounds.
I will be inside watching a scary movie and drinking beer.
I don’t understand people acting like rain is a bad reason to cancel something. Everything that takes place outdoors is canceled when it rains. Nobody, adult or child, goes out and just stays out in the rain for hours.
And it’s even worse when you’re in costume getting candy. I assume you don’t mean just letting the kids stay out in the rain and get soaked, but no rain protection is perfect. It works fine for small trips, but trick or treating takes hours. You’re going to muddy and damp and any makeup running down your face. Your candy is going to be moist to wet, and thus nearly useless.
I guess a poncho might work, but then you lose out on getting to wear costumes, unless you can reconfigure your costume to use a poncho and waterproof gear.
I can’t imagine wanting to trick-or-treat in the rain. Of course you should move it if you can, just like you would any other organized event.
Oh so this is pretty much just all about you and your son.
Where I live we’ve heard it’s probably going to be storming all night. My solution is to take my kid to CiCi’s and then hide the candy we have for trick-or-treaters and let her have a candy hunt. If it clears up we’ll get out, but my 8 eight year old is afraid of storms so unless I can get someone to turn off the wind and rain we’ll just make other plans. Maybe you should try to come up with an alternative your child will find super-duper exciting. Go egg some houses or something like that. I wouldn’t suggest toilet papering though.
It’s been scheduled in this area for decades, as far as I know. It was definitely scheduled 20 years ago and I think it was scheduled for a long time before that. People just do it when it’s scheduled because that’s how it works. There is no enforcement, but even if there was, there are no children out at the wrong time because there is no other time to do it. Maybe there will be tonight because it was only changed 12 hours beforehand in my city, but that would be because people already looked it up and saw that it was supposed to be tonight, not because this is the traditional night for trick-or-treating (even when it was always on a certain day, I’m pretty sure the traditional local day was the 30th).
This is exactly how it’s been everywhere I’ve lived, which granted, is limited to various parts of Northern California. I have no reason to think about moving it because we have no weather issues (we might get a little rain, but rarely), no one cares if it’s Sunday or other church day, and Friday and Saturday nights mean you can Trick or Treat a little later because no school the next day.
Yeah all of Indy moved it to tonight, and it really wasn’t that bad last night. It rained some, mostly before the scheduled time, and it got kinda windy and rained hard after the scheduled time, but mostly the kids would have gotten a bit wet and that’s it.
I know this is bad spirited, but last night we ended up going to a neighboring town with some family members to trick or treat. It was about 60 with maybe a few sprinkles.
However, tonight, the “safe” night, has constant drizzle and it’s in the 40s. Haha!
It rained here all night and our ToTers were just soggy. We got a lot fewer of them than usual, which meant I had plenty of candy to reward those hardy souls out there getting wet.
In fact, I have so much leftover candy that I’d be happy if someone rang my doorbell today. The pizza delivery guy just got candy in addition to his tip.