# The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade '24 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2024, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-macys-thanksgiving-parade-24/1010995 "2024-11-30T22:56:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-macys-thanksgiving-parade-24/1010995/2 "2024-11-30T23:18:36Z")
See also my thread on the parade: > [@AMA: I Marched in the 2024 NYC Macy's T-Day Parade !1! Woot!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-i-marched-in-the-2024-nyc-macys-t-day-parade-1-woot/1010936): > > Hi folks - Courtesy of a certain well-connected Doper who shall remain anonymous I had the rare privilege yesterday of marching in the famous parade. His role is that of a balloon “pilot”; the guy in charge of getting one balloon put together, inflated, crewed, walked down the parade route, and deflated, all without mishap. He’s assisted by about 7 other experts traveling the route with him, and about 90 mostly unskilled drones holding the lines that control the path and altitude of the balloo… The rain (and wind) were forecast to be far worse than they turned out to be. I suspect the telecasters’ scripts, prompt sheets, or whatever they yabber from were written long before the reality of the weather occurred. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-macys-thanksgiving-parade-24/1010995)._