How in the world do you get 6 hours behind? It blows my mind how a lot of places didn't seem to alter their SOP for this event. We walked by a donut shop on Grand on the way to the parade that had "Sold Out" signs up. How in the hell, as the owner of that shop, do you not say, "Hey...everyone is working tomorrow from sun-up and we're going to make 10x the number of donuts we usually make!" ??

I assume it's because they had a budget like any other business. And ordering and delivering enough supplies with less than 48 hours notice to make 200,000 doughnuts may have been out of that budget.

The parade didn't seem to have anything at all. I heard food trucks applied to participate but the city (or whoever ran the thing) said there wasn't enough room.

There are restaurants around but we walked about a mile away to Martini Corner and it still seemed like half the restaurants were at capacity and not letting anyone else in.

It also helps that every fan was mostly awesome.

I was there by the stage. Could not find any family or friends that were not on the trolleys. Absolute blast. Met lots of great friendly people of all colors just enjoying what the team accomplished.

My only complaint was there were not water vendors.

I think they did a great job for the most part. They were guessing 200-350k.. Then schools let out. that is 100k+ just in kids if not more.


I read there were only 3 arrests?

Besides the poor speeches for the most part it was great. They know what to do for next time.

I think this had a lot to do with it. A lot of parents had to get the day off and figured they might as well go to the parade. I didn't hear much about it until schools shut down for the day, then it seems everyone I knew suddenly said they were going.

Final verdict.....Parade attendance was around 200,000. Sounds like those 800,000 numbers were waaay fudged....


http://www.kcconfidential.com/2015/1...ans-seriously/



However, when Kansas City’s mayor got into the crowd estimating game and certain national media started picking up on claims by “officials” that as many as 800,000 people had been involved, a reality check was in order.

According to whom? Officials? What officials? And how did they arrive at those numbers?

Enter City Hall spokesman Chris Hernandez who claimed Jacobs Method had been used

“Jacobs would turn over in his grave if he heard that count,” Evert quips. “I’d like Chris Hernandez to introduce me to the person who used Jacobs Method.”

Uh, fat chance (more on that later).

“We used Jacobs Method – exactly as he laid it out – on the Plaza – we didn’t do it here because we would have needed two dozen people to do it properly,” Evert continues. “And since that wasn’t available, I used Google Earth.”

And who did the count for KC’s mayor?

“Who did the count?” Hernandez gulps. “Oh, someone who works at City Hall, but it’s clearly just an estimate.”

May I speak with him please, I asked?

“No, because here’s the deal,” Hernandez tap danced. “It’s someone who works in my department and he just did it for us. He’s not an expert.”

According to Hernandez, said dude looked at aerial photos and somehow came up with 720,000 people, which was then “rounded up” to 800,000 to account for parade watchers on rooftops and inside buildings.”

Which brings us to Evert’s numbers, measured using a very liberal crowd density factor.

“My figure was 216,000 people using a density of one person for every three square feet,” Evert says. “We’ve all been in elevators where everybody was jammed in like sardines – but to stand like that for two hours? Go measure an elevator and tell me if you want to stand in there for a couple hours with 15 of your closest friends…But 800,000 people is total bullshit. I got 167,000 at the parade and another 60,000 at Union Station and on the lawn. That’s 216,000 and that was extremely generous.”

Lol that guy says there was only 60k at the rally?

Yes did he count the people jamming every street downtown, stuck on a bus or in traffic, and the people turned away that could not even get close. Take Arrowhead filled to capacity and times that by 5 to 6 and that would be a good start.

There's no way in hell there was anything close to a million people there. 200-300k is probably right.

Yeah that estimate is a joke. There was probably 4 to 5 times as many people there on Tuesday.

Here is the best image I could find of the 2008 Obama rally at Liberty Memorial and the estimate was 75k.

http://www.thelope.com/images/08-10-18-321.jpg