[Nodxa] Hara Arena Closing/ HamVention is Moving

[Williams, G (AF8C)]

Curiousity impelled me to count parking slots.

The Hara Arena is claimed to have 4000 parking places.

I tried to count the visible parking places at the
Greene County Fairgrounds on Google Maps satellite
view.  I found slightly over 400 spaces. In the still
photo view of the team standing on the tarmac,
zoomed in, I see a parking place numbered at "426".

Granted some of the grassy area has faint lines on it
as if that area can be chalk striped for a much larger
number of vehicles. So perhaps there is space for 800
slots? Well, that's approximately a maximum capacity of
20% of the parking area of the Hara Arena.

It will be curious how the 2017 Hamvention planners will
work around that problem. Have buses from a neighboring
mall parking lot? Vehicle parking or fleamarket parking
on the grass in the rain?

--73, Glenn, AF8C