La Sombra Posted April 27 Posted April 27 (edited) Posted with moderator permission. This past Friday morning at the Southwest Regional Championship, aka Hell on the Border, in Fort Smith Arkansas, there was some severe weather. Heavy rain and wind destroyed four vendor’s tents and damaged a significant portion of their wares. The vendors who were impacted were @Scarlett, @Riverboat Red, SASS #71733, @Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 and @Nellie Blue #54399. (Red lost a significant portion of his paper inventory and Nellie lost 100% of her soap inventory due to the storm.) For the record, Red sells leather items, tumblers, and paper products, Nellie was selling her homemade soap, Possum was attempting to sell his 3D printed reloader accessories, and Scarlet was selling her normal inventory. Other than Scarlet (https://bulletsbyscarlett.com/). Nellie-Blue’s website is nellieblue.com (She will not have soaps for about 4 weeks to allow them to age.) I do not know the others websites. Please reach out to them and consider buying something from them to 1) offset their losses and 2)offset their travel costs which their match sales help cover. It is just the Cowboy Way. Thanks, La Sombra Edited April 28 by La Sombra Found Nellie’s website 13 3 3 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted April 28 Posted April 28 1 hour ago, La Sombra said: Posted with moderator permission. This past Friday morning at the Southwest Regional Championship, aka Hell on the Border, in Fort Smith Arkansas, there was some severe weather. Heavy rain and wind destroyed four vendor’s tents and damaged a significant portion of their wares. The vendors who were impacted were @Scarlett, @Riverboat Red, SASS #71733, @Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 and @Nellie Blue #54399. (Red lost a significant portion of his paper inventory and Nellie lost 100% of her soap inventory due to the storm.) For the record, Red sells leather items, tumblers, and paper products, Nellie was selling her homemade soap, Possum was attempting to sell his 3D printed reloader accessories, and Scarlet was selling her normal inventory. Other than Scarlet (https://bulletsbyscarlett.com/), I do not know the others websites. Please reach out to them and consider buying something from them to 1) offset their losses and 2)offset their travel costs which their match sales help cover. It is just the Cowboy Way. Thanks, La Sombra This ^^^^^^^^^ 3 Quote
Scarlett Posted April 28 Posted April 28 Thanks, @La Sombra I appreciate all the reaching out! My products survived pretty well. The tent was 200+ yards away - Nellie and Possum Skinners tent was beyond mine - they were originally on the far side of the tree in the picture. Riverboat Red’s tent was beside mine. They had FAR greater losses than I did. While it was a pain to get everything dry after quickly packing it up in pouring rain, we are good. This community, the Match officials at Judge Parker’s Marshals are fantastic! They couldn’t control the weather - and this weather was NOT forecasted - they offered help and flexibility if we wanted to try to stay and shoot the match. Riverboat Red went home - as did Tommy and I. Nellie Blue and Possum Skinner persevered and shot the match! Kudos to them! Riverboat Red’s website is https://reds-specialties.myshopify.com/?fbclid=IwRlRTSARdA21leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeALdxvqFVjwvrUoODI0KBVV-hJUE1AsT-N33ke7onP-4SveNpi8GlxGws5u8_aem_zLRdGliLXvvpyNx5U75JEA Hugs and love! Scarlett 7 Quote
Tell Sackett SASS 18436 Posted April 28 Posted April 28 I have to disagree. Thunderstorms were in the forecast! High winds are always a possibility with thunderstorms!! I experienced similar events at The Great Spaghetti Western a couple years ago!! Quote
Scarlett Posted May 1 Posted May 1 On 4/28/2026 at 10:59 AM, Tell Sackett SASS 18436 said: I have to disagree. Thunderstorms were in the forecast! High winds are always a possibility with thunderstorms!! I experienced similar events at The Great Spaghetti Western a couple years ago!! Appreciate the support! 🤦🏼♀️ Tommy and I have been vending for TWELVE YEARS all over the country. The only place we do not set up our own tent is End of Trail. We know what we are doing. Weather similar to what happened in Arkansas has occurred however, we have NEVER had our tent break away from the tie downs, much less travel 200 yards on the wind. We are not so ignorant as to not check the weather. We checked it all day. We checked it before we left the range at about 7-7:30 Thursday night. We continued to check the weather before we went to bed! There were NO high wind advisories or thunderstorm warnings in my weather app. @Riverboat Red, SASS #71733, @Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 @Nellie Blue #54399 lost a lot of their hard work - that they make themselves. My stuff got wet and was all over the place. To imply that this was just something that happened that they should just get over it pisses me off. They are each fine cowboys and cowgirl who give a lot to this sport. If your comment was only directed at my post? I’m too polite to say what I want to say… so I’m not gonna say anything. Next time, how about not saying anything. Scarlett 10 1 Quote
Tell Sackett SASS 18436 Posted May 1 Posted May 1 Don’t know if you’re mad at me Scarlett, but all I said was that thunderstorms were in the forecast! And they were. Bad things happen in thunderstorms! No matter how secure! I’ve seen it & experienced it. I wouldn’t trust any tent in a bad thunderstorm. Mother Nature has the last word! Of course Im sorry for you & the others! I thought that went without saying!! My comment was merely about the forecast. Maybe we looked at different ones? 1 Quote
Cholla Posted May 1 Posted May 1 It looks like you're lucky you didn't need a lion, tin man, and Scarecrow to help you. 1 2 Quote
Kid Rich Posted May 2 Posted May 2 It was close, I offered and Owl Eye Olga helped her get her tables in her van. kR 1 Quote
watab kid Posted May 3 Posted May 3 gotta help outwhen you can .most appreciate it very much , helps all of us in the end 1 Quote
Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 Posted May 3 Posted May 3 The help we received at the range was incredible and truly appreciated. By the time I was notified that our canopy was blown away and our stuff scattered everywhere and could get down there, our stuff was already gathered up by a few very helpful cowboys. The canopy was a total wreck, but nearly all of our goods made it through without damage. Nellie Blue's soaps, however, did not fare so well. To those of you who have reached out inquiring about our Dillon loader accessories, thank you. 2 1 Quote
Scarlett Posted May 4 Posted May 4 On 5/2/2026 at 8:23 AM, Kid Rich said: It was close, I offered and Owl Eye Olga helped her get her tables in her van. kR You and Owl Eye Olga were the perfect help! Your sense of humor and calm was exactly what we needed at that moment!! Thank you thank you thank you!! Hugs! Scarlett (and Tommy) 2 1 Quote
Scarlett Posted May 4 Posted May 4 5 hours ago, Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 said: The help we received at the range was incredible and truly appreciated. By the time I was notified that our canopy was blown away and our stuff scattered everywhere and could get down there, our stuff was already gathered up by a few very helpful cowboys. The canopy was a total wreck, but nearly all of our goods made it through without damage. Nellie Blue's soaps, however, did not fare so well. To those of you who have reached out inquiring about our Dillon loader accessories, thank you. It was crazy! Some of your parts were in Riverboat Red’s wreckage and some of it was strewn clear the other direction! It was wild! Hugs!! Scarlett Quote
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