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Looks almost biblical, doesn't it? O-O
Five dead in stage collapse at Indiana State Fair
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Looks almost biblical, doesn't it? O-O
Facetious
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That was the word I couldn't seem to come up with last night, truss. :o
Thanks for posting the catalog links... very interesting stuff indeed!
Pennsylvania? :dunno:Plasma said:
Hey! 2 years departed? :greets:
R.I.P. and I hope the people that were hurt make a full recovery.
I wonder with structures like that if it might be more beneficial for the tarps and cloth on and hanging from them to be designed to tear away more easily. It would be a major pain in the ass a lot of the time with them coming off but it might allow it to tear away and reduce the profile of the structure in high winds.
I wonder with structures like that if it might be more beneficial for the tarps and cloth on and hanging from them to be designed to tear away more easily. It would be a major pain in the ass a lot of the time with them coming off but it might allow it to tear away and reduce the profile of the structure in high winds.
I'm disappointed by the response by Sugarland. They are a multi-platinum recording artist. They should be donating future proceeds from ticket sales to all the victims.
It's an eerie photo.
Okay? Because I've seen the footage of the collapse played a minimum of 30 times on all television over the last few days.
I'm glad you mention that, because that's actually the reason why I logged in right now. I just asked the stage guy on the stage that I'm tearing down today about wind rating on the stage. He said that the skin failed because it's designed to rip off at 60 mph. The stage left skin ripped away, but the stage right didn't, so it acted like a sail. The structure itself without the skin is designed to withstand 100 mph winds.
On a side note, 4 of the people that died were truss spot operators. They were actually in the grid when the stage collapsed. It pisses me off that they weren't told to come down when the first high wind advisories were broadcast. Their lives were put at unnecessary risk, and that is unexcusable.
Oh well, **** happens:dunno:
I really find it quite tasteless for someone to make jest of of a tragedy where people lost their lives.
horrible...
what was the last pizza order made at the World Trade Center?
Two Large Planes:drama:
I agree. What the hell is wrong with the festival people? That **** should have been shut down long before it got to that point. Don't send the truss spot operators in with huge winds like that.
A ********* waste of life.
Oh, and ragincaucasian, your **** isn't funny or appreciated. What the fuck is wrong with you, man?
Spot ops have to be at their spots half an hour before the start of the show. If Sara Bareilles played a set before the stage collapsed the spot ops had been there for over an hour. Yeah, climbing up and down wire rope is a pain in the ass, and it takes a while to maneuver around truss and the ladder, but if they would've been told to come down when the advisory came through at least a couple of them wouldn't've died.
PlasmaTwa2
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The exact same thing happened in Ottawa a few months ago. Cheap Trick just finished playing and then the stage collapsed due to high winds. No one was injured though, I believe, and that was due to the fact they cancelled the even when it got too bad (I believe).
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I'm out of state right now, but I heard about this through FB and Twitter from some of the people I'm traveling with. We ended up watching coverage of it at our hotel. Very sad indeed. I knew a couple of people at the concert, but they were no where near the stage. I'm just thankful that there weren't more casualties.
This one literally hits pretty close to home, so some of the distasteful comments are really inappropriate right now.
This one literally hits pretty close to home, so some of the distasteful comments are really inappropriate right now.
Well it's liberal ragincaucasian. What more could expect from someone whose idols are Chris Mathews and Keith Olbermann - two particularly vile characters.
I actually included a link to an article on that in my first post. There was a truck driver that was injured. I actually worked on that very stage last year at Outside Lands. It's scary to think that a stage I worked on collapsed.
Another stage in Belgium just collapsed and ****** 5 people. Scary stuff...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ival-canceled/2011/08/18/gIQAYTW5PJ_blog.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ival-canceled/2011/08/18/gIQAYTW5PJ_blog.html
