Re: Stage Collapses at Ottawa BluesFest
I have never worked a festival where the company with the big line-array hangs didn't have someone on the crew with SmartPhone internet access constantly monitoring the weather radar. I believe they also write it into their contract that they'll lower the hang when any storm is 30 minutes away.
In the days of sailing ships they'd go as fast as they could for as long as they could, reef the sails they needed for steerage and when push came to shove......cut the rigging and let the canvas go to save the masts.
And from the Blogspot link above:
Between the hours of 6:00pm and 7:00pm the storm had travelled all the way from Pembroke to basically where I am along the Ottawa River in Westboro. That’s just over 100km. Do the math and you start to realize this storm was travelling at over 100km/h. During this travel time it got closer and closer to Ottawa, so Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the City of Ottawa at 6:35pm.
Around here the cops shut things down when the warning is issued.
