Worth County, IA- Rock Gone Wild Concert promoters are expecting about 10 thousand people to show up at Diamond Jo Casino in Northwood on August 20.
Less than three weeks ago people in Worth County found out the four day event was coming to the area after moving from Algona, and some aren't very excited, while others are hoping to make some extra cash.
It's the simple things like privacy and seclusion that Russ Johnson likes about living in the country. He also preaches quality family values and religion.
Now he's worrying about a four day rock festival is promoting mayhem and debauchery.
"Whenever you have a crowd of any size you're going to have certain elements that are there for the wrong reasons," he said.
Johnson is not only worried about the morality issues surrounding Rock Gone Wild, he's also concerned about what will happen when concert goers start making their way towards campgrounds.
“Well there's going to be alcohol there, so we're promoting drunken driving and public intoxication, you know these people got to get there, what happens who's liable."
Sheriff Jay Langenbau says his office is still trying to prepare for the event that aims to double the size of his county.
"Usually if something this big happens then we usually have about a year or so to get ready for something like this, but here we're given basically five weeks to start looking into it and figure out what we're going to need and if we can take care of some things here," Langenbau said.
The Sheriff says several people are voicing complaints about the event. But while some are condemning the concert, others are making the most of it.
"We're working on signs right now, we're working on advertising the fields mowed the sites are up that took a while we have showers," said Ryan Severson.
Ryan Severson is opening his farm up to campers.
"We really don't know what to expect, so we're kind of just doing this blind but we thought what the heck it's worth a try, we'll find out," he said.
Johnson hopes it doesn't backfire.
"Now they're off the property who's liable then, who's liable then you kow worth county because we allowed it, the neighbors because we didn't speak up and say hey we don't want this here, we don't want this kind of venue we didn't move next to it," he said.
Sheriff Langenbau says they should have a better security plan in place at the end of the week.
Rock Gone Wild is providing it's own security for inside the concert.
