ORANGE BEACH — Cam Price and others at the Flora-Bama are naturally expecting a crowd for the iconic roadhouse’s party of the year, Mullet Toss.

But another event this weekend has Flora-Bama crews expecting an unusually busy day on Thursday rather than Friday or Saturday or even Sunday.

Some guy named Jimmy Buffett has a show at the Amphitheater at The Wharf on Friday.

“I think we’re going to be bigger on Thursday night than normal just because people will be in town for the concert,” Price said. “Friday and Saturday night it’s hard to get a whole lot busier anyway.”

With the Mullet Toss celebration drawing 30,000 or more during the weekend and a Buffett sellout of 10,000 – with more fans without tickets expected to show up to soak in the atmosphere – traffic could produce some major headaches.

In addition to those monster events, the Bama Coast Cruise Car Show takes up residence at The Wharf starting on Thursday night with big show days Friday and Saturday. Last year 500 cars were on display and more are expected for the 2015 show.

Wait, there’s more.

In Gulf Shores the public beach will host the American Open Beach Handball Championships Friday through Sunday and on Sunday the Gulf Coast Region USA Volleyball Beach Series II with adult and junior teams join the fray.

The Gulf Shores Complex will be a busy place on Saturday and Sunday as well. The Southern States Athletic Conference will have its track and field meet at Blackwell Stadium. The league has six men’s teams and seven women’s teams including the University of Mobile.

On the ball fields at the Sportsplex high school softball teams will take the fields for the Pleasure Island Showdown.

There’s more yet. The USSSA will be back in town for one of its many tournaments here, Bats on the Beach, with games taking place at fields in Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Foley.

It sounds almost like the perfect storm with Kenny Chesney-like implications. Chesney’s free concert at the Flora-Bama on Aug. 16 caused logistical concerns for local governments and businesses, but were handled with much aplomb.

There’s a big difference here, however.

“With Kenny Chesney we knew everybody was going to that one spot at a certain time,” Orange Beach City Administrator Ken Grimes said. “Then we started looking at the dates and said ‘wait a minute. That’s Mullet Toss weekend.’ Then we said ‘wait a minute, that’s the date of the Bama Coast Cruise Car Show at The Wharf.’ There is a variety of conflicting events as far as the times.”

In effort to boost its Sunday crowd, Pat McClellan of the Flora-Bama said they were expected a special guest.

“We’re going to be busy on Sunday, too because he’s coming to church,” McClellan deadpanned. The Flora-Bama has highly popular Worship on the Water services every Sunday.

“Buffett’s coming to church and he’s going to be the celebrity Mullet Tosser after that at high noon,” Price said with a laugh. “I heard that from Pat.”

There’ll be no Buffett on Sunday because the Parrothead icon will be at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans.

But Grimes does expect there to be a positive impact on Orange Beach leading up to the show. Tickets for the show sold out in 90 minutes on Feb. 27.

“The Parrothead group is a pretty calm group,” Grimes said. “They like to tailgate, they like to go to the restaurants and hang out. There’ll be a lot of activity and traffic because it’ll be a really busy week. It’s going to help the month of April a lot having those extra 10,000 or so for the Buffett concert and how many else decide to come in.”

There’ll be shuttle stops around town to take revelers to the Mullet Toss and Grimes said that helps with traffic during that celebration.

“Usually our traffic issues are not too big with Mullet Toss, usually just on the east side of the bridge,” he said. “We tell people if they don’t have to go over the bridge or to the state line to avoid it if they can.”