The riggers who put up stages are very experienced with the task and for outdoors venues, those stages are put up and taken down many times over the course of a tour.

I have been to tons of outdoors and indoors concerts and never saw anything even close to what happened in this case.

I think the worst weather I saw at an outdoor concert was rain....and even then the stage had a canopy over the area where the band played.


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That same storm passed thru Louisville and completely wrecked the area.

We were going to the super when the radio gave the EBS (Emergency Broadcast System) warning about a storm off to the west. As I walked into the store I noticed a wall of purple clouds in the distance.

I had never seen THAT color in the sky before and commented on it.

We walked into the store and about 20 minutes later the lights flickered. We walked out to the lot and the ground was drenched. A tree came down on the power lines and crushed part of the fence in the backyard..

That was about 6 p.m. on Saturday and the power has been out since then.

Thank goodness for generators and extension cords!!!!