Onoue Festival

Every year, my school district Onoue holds a festival in autumn, called Onoue Matsuri. As an officer of the district sports association, I have to help with the organization of the festival. This year's festival was held yesterday. As you know, the weather was very nice early yesterday morning, so the festival went ahead as planned, so I and the other officers and helpers started preparing around 8 o'clock. Unfortunately, it started raining before 10, when the festival was scheduled to start. We were all a bit worried, but the rain was very light at first so the decision was made to go ahead. However, the weather became worse and worse, but by that time it was too late to change the schedule. The area around the tents became flooded, and most of the attendees went home.
Because another event is scheduled for today, we had to move all the tents and other equipment away. However, they were too wet to fold up, so we just carried them off to the side. They were very wet and heavy. Maybe in 2 or 3 days we'll have to go there again to clean and dry them, and fold them up and put them away.