NEDERLAND — High winds have put a chill on today's events at Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, causing organizers to postpone many of the festival's signature elements.

Crews are trying to rebuild the windfallen tents as event locations are quickly shifted. The coffin races and polar plunge are being postponed until the same respective times Sunday.

"It's windy, but all the restaurants are open and all the inside events are happening," said Katrina Harms, one of the marketing organizers. "And, any music that we can will be moved into local venues."

Event organizers announced at 7:30 a.m. that today's Parade of Hearses also was being postponed. That decision, however, has since been reversed and it is slated to begin at noon today.

The pancake breakfast, film, newly dead games, ice turkey bowling, brain freeze contest and the frozen t-shirt contest are all still happening today as scheduled.

Nederland temperatures today are expected to reach 30 degrees with winds out of the west-northwest at 42 to 45 mph. Gusts could be as high as 65 mph. Sunday temperatures should be warmer than average, reaching into the low 40s, but with breezy conditions.

"We hope that a lot of people come back tomorrow, it's supposed to be a nice day," Harms said.

The festival celebrates the cryogenically preserved body of Grandpa Bredo Morstoel, now in his 22nd year as a frozen dead man. He has remained in minus-60 degree dry ice in a Tuff Shed near Nederland since 1993.

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