VME was held Sunday, August 30 2015, which was the Sunday of the August Storm of 2015. All-time record August winds on Saturday at National Weather Service Seattle with gusts of 46 miles per hour. Tacoma, 54 miles per hour. 70 mile per hour gusts at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. 1.28 inches of rain at Seattle. 2 people killed. 300,000 people without power in Western Washington. On Sunday morning, Puget Sound Energy was still saying over 800 people without power on Vashon.
By my completely subjective measurement, VME was down over 50% in attendance from 2014...