Nic: Keep Indianapolis in your prayers
"If we can take a break from the partisan hackery for a moment - Keep Indianapolis in your thoughts/prayers. I’ve got friends in that area and the city is dealing with tragedy and loss today."
INDIANAPOLIS – The summer evening at the Indiana State Fair turned strangely cold. The wind blew hard, then harder still, tearing the fabric from the roof of the wobbling grandstand stage.
The crowd, waiting under a thunderous sky for the country duo Sugarland to perform Saturday, had just been told over the loudspeakers that severe weather was possible. They were told where to seek shelter if an evacuation was necessary, but none was ordered.
None of the phone calls workers had made to the National Weather Service prepared them for the 60 to 70 mph gust that blew a punishing cloud of dirt, dust and rain down the fairground’s main thoroughfare. The massive rigging and lighting system covering the stage tilted forward, then plummeted onto the front of the crowd in a sickening thump. More here.
The toll in the stage collapse continues to grow and nic's comment is spot on.
