{"id":3829,"date":"2011-08-17T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2011-08-17T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:11:08","slug":"video-captures-stage-collapse-in-powerful-winds-at-indiana-state-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/video-captures-stage-collapse-in-powerful-winds-at-indiana-state-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Video captures stage collapse in powerful winds at Indiana State Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/hash\/11\/f5\/002_187.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"This video screen capture shows the stage at the Indianapolis State Fair as it collapsed. (YouTube \/ JSilas7)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-egh_7ecOMSM\/Tkw7ergpi6I\/AAAAAAAAE6g\/V0jGJfgtcy4\/s288\/2011-08-17_160026.jpg\" alt=\"This video screen capture shows the stage at the Indianapolis State Fair as it collapsed. (YouTube \/ JSilas7)\" width=\"288\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This video screen capture shows the stage at the Indianapolis State Fair as it collapsed. Watch the video below.  (YouTube \/ JSilas7)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Winds alone are not normally associated with the loss of life but a sad reminder of the dangers was seen at the Indianapolis State Fair on Saturday.\u00a0 Powerful thunderstorm winds downed a stage killing five people and injuring dozens while officials appeared to ignore warnings of the impending danger.<\/p>\n<p>The Natural Disasters Examiner wrote in a story on Monday that the warning signs for severe weather in central Indiana were readily apparent as early as two days before the storm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>For more on the timeline of events that led to this tragedy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/natural-disasters-in-national\/five-killed-dozens-injured-when-winds-topple-indiana-state-fair-stage\">see the story on the Natural Disasters Examiner<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The National Weather Service discussed the thunderstorm and high wind dangers in its Hazardous Weather Outlook multiple times.\u00a0 A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued hours before and a Warning 10 minutes before.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, officials at the fair failed to make a timely decision to cancel the Sugarland concert.\u00a0 When the winds, estimated at 50 to 70mph struck, it only took a matter of seconds for the stage&#8217;s rigging to collapse.\u00a0 Five people died and more than 40 were injured due to their failure.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy should serve as a reminder to everyone to pay attention to changing weather.\u00a0 Do not ignore weather watches and warnings, no matter what others are doing.\u00a0 The life you save may be your own.<\/p>\n<p>The video below captures the event with shocking clarity. \u00a0It may be disturbing for some so viewer discretion is advised.<\/p>\n<p>Our hearts and prayers go out to all those affected by the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SRkdwrmzYXg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SRkdwrmzYXg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winds alone are not normally associated with the loss of life but a sad reminder of the dangers was seen at the Indianapolis State Fair on Saturday.\u00a0 Powerful thunderstorm winds downed a stage killing five people and injuring dozens while officials appeared to ignore warnings of the impending danger. The Natural Disasters Examiner wrote in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/video-captures-stage-collapse-in-powerful-winds-at-indiana-state-fair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video captures stage collapse in powerful winds at Indiana State Fair<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[224,86,365,535,534,295,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3831,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}