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<blockquote data-quote="Milt Hathaway" data-source="post: 34366" data-attributes="member: 26"><p>Re: Another Stage Collapse</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A whole bunch of "Listen to me! I knew this was gonna happen!" 20/20 hindsight right there. Where I live watches and warnings seldom mean anything will actually happen at your particular location. I've also been involved in an incident where zero watches or warning were issued and a clear-air gust front blew through a downtown festival injuring a few people and shutting down the remainder of the weekend event. After a while of hearing them cry wolf it's no wonder that people will ignore it. Now this guy comes out pointing fingers mainly to save his industry's collective ass.</p><p></p><p>I do like the after-the-fact animated radar graphic he includes. I wonder if anyone with any power to shut down the event saw anything like that. Apparently the Weather Channel didn't have that radar data to share during their followups of the past few days. I also wonder why-when given that level of radar data-someone with the weather service didn't warn the authorities of EXACTLY what was headed to the fairgrounds. That radar not only shows existing precip and particulate, it will also calculate wind speeds. Notification of these facts might have been influential enough to get evacuations moving faster.</p><p></p><p>"We warned you that it might happen." is a cop-out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Milt Hathaway, post: 34366, member: 26"] Re: Another Stage Collapse A whole bunch of "Listen to me! I knew this was gonna happen!" 20/20 hindsight right there. Where I live watches and warnings seldom mean anything will actually happen at your particular location. I've also been involved in an incident where zero watches or warning were issued and a clear-air gust front blew through a downtown festival injuring a few people and shutting down the remainder of the weekend event. After a while of hearing them cry wolf it's no wonder that people will ignore it. Now this guy comes out pointing fingers mainly to save his industry's collective ass. I do like the after-the-fact animated radar graphic he includes. I wonder if anyone with any power to shut down the event saw anything like that. Apparently the Weather Channel didn't have that radar data to share during their followups of the past few days. I also wonder why-when given that level of radar data-someone with the weather service didn't warn the authorities of EXACTLY what was headed to the fairgrounds. That radar not only shows existing precip and particulate, it will also calculate wind speeds. Notification of these facts might have been influential enough to get evacuations moving faster. "We warned you that it might happen." is a cop-out. [/QUOTE]
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