Today a disaster struck Pukkelpop at Belgium. A heavy storm broke several stages. The current result is 5 people died and 11 in critical condition. Here is some footage: (For pictures: http://jangeloen.blogspot.com/2011/08/pukkelpop-2011.html) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj9VDZlSrmU[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-lgzwggWfk[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkUwiW7_198[/youtube]
saw it on the news. Really terrible. The forces of nature remain a very destructive and uncontrollable thing.
Terrible, friends and brother are fine I heard, so thats a small relieve...Man what a shitty way to loose your kids They gonne keep as much a they can going in the weekend...was the first evening... Couple days ago a whole stage in USA falls on crowd...is it me or isnt this a coincidence? this year lot more festivals...more sales...more peeps...and less investments on safety. or just freak of nature.... [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRkdwrmzYXg[/youtube]
as far as i know those should be sturdy constuctions (our vilage hosts a 4 day event in such a tent) but seeing the movies people posted is just awfull i can't say who's fault it was (if any people where at fault at all) but it's just tragic what happend and again my condolences to the families and friends
i was at some beer festival and there were some realy crappy stages to luckely none of them collapsed (it was kinda bad weather) still i think they need to spend more time working on the safety of the visitors
the vid looks so unreal, like its happening in some disaster movie. but it's real... quite some damage in at pukkelpop. :S condolences to the families who lost people in both disasters.
Yeah like cut down all the trees because they can fall over in a storm. :roll: ( Trees help to keep tents out of the wind if they stay up themselves ) Those tents are very strong already. People couldn't evacuate because of the hail outside. I've seen big bruises from the hail on ppl that ran out into the open. It was painfull not to be in a tent. And they couldn't go anywhere outside because there's just nothing there. Just farmlands. No idea how they could be working on more safety... You can't evacuate 60.000 ppl in a very short time anyway. When there's nothing wrong yet, nobody wants to leave anyway. When it goes bad it's to late. There wasn't anything that could have been done to foresee this. The ppl that orginised this have no blame. Condolances to the family's of the victims.
Yeah you are right, saw the videos...Had something similar with a small festival: everything gone in 10 min. You cant do anything about that, freak of nature (we are still mortal animals)