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kári:
Just getting this out to other music-lovers, it is truly terrible.

Yesterday was the first day of the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium. However it got hit at around 7PM by a storm of unbelievable magnitude, even though it only lasted for about 15 minutes. 5 people are dead, three more are fighting for their lives and over 100 people are injured. Two stages as well as several structures collapsed, several trees were ripped out of the ground. The festival was supposed to last three days but was called off.

It's a major festival, over 60.000 people were on the festival site during the storm. Global acts like Foo Fighters, Eminem, The Offspring, ... played there. You can check the lineup here: https://www.pukkelpop.be/nl/line-up/allnames

Some images:











Some unbelievable footage:
https://www.deredactie.be/permalink/1.1090483

https://www.deredactie.be/permalink/1.1090930

Loads more on youtube.
My sister was there and we couldn't reach her or any of her friends because the network was down. About an hour later we had heard that all her friends were alright but they didn't know where she was. It wasn't until two hours later that we heard that they'd found her and that she was okay.   

lordxizor:
Scary stuff. Same thing happened the other day in Iowa that killed a few people. Glad your friends are OK.

kári:
So crazy
https://youtu.be/uJESZOGjETU

Would you believe it's 6:45 PM?

wkiml:
WTF....Indiana had this happen last weekend...Happened in Ontario as well (no injuries)

Read an article this week by Peter Frampton. stating that these festivals have 2 choices...either erect a permenant stage..thus it would be structurally stronger or stop bands from using full lighting and sound systems , since a majority of the weight on the temparary stages are from light and sound equipment

tri.ad:
That looks absolutely terrifying.

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