{"id":455549,"date":"2026-10-03T20:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455549\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:20:47","slug":"during-muddy-acl-austin-stores-sell-out-of-rain-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455549\/","title":{"rendered":"During muddy ACL, Austin stores sell out of rain boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last-minute shoppers looking for rain boots in Austin likely won&#8217;t find anything suitable for the mud pit that is Austin City Limits Music Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a rainy start on Friday, festival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/entertainment\/article\/acl-saturday-delayed-opening-22461008.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">organizers delayed opening\u00a0Zilker Park<\/a> on Saturday.\u00a0Conditions at the grounds on the first day of the festival made for muddy moshing and regrettable footwear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Numerous stores in the Sunset Valley area \u2014 two Targets, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Walmart, Nordstrom Rack and Old Navy \u2014 all were sold out of rain boots Saturday around noon. Remaining options included kid rain boots, non-waterproof tactical boots and Crocs.<\/p>\n<p>An employee at Academy Sports + Outdoors pointed toward a lone rack of possible options. On the dolly were camo-style rain boots in large men&#8217;s sizes and kids shoes.\u00a0At Walmart, lingering options included ankle-high Blundstones or taller non-waterproof boots.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last-minute shoppers looking for rain boots in Austin likely won&#8217;t find anything suitable for the mud pit that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-455549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}