A fifth person died who was up in the lighting rig making a last minute adjustment to a light. The stage company is a local one from nearby Greenfield (just east of Indianapolis). The canceled the Janet Jackson show and the Grammy Song of the Year winners who were playing the night after that show. They shut the entire fair on Sunday, which is often the largest day of the entire event. The fair had been having it's best year ever, much needed for so many in the bad economy. One of the few truly family fun activities people can enjoy each year and now a darkness over it all. In the video you see an eerie cloud form just to the left of the stage and bring it all down. Fair officials said they did not expect the wind gust that early, but the weather service later claimed they specifically warned the fair that there were 60+ mile per hour straight winds leading the storm front so hopefully the truth will come out. After the collapse during the Cheap Trick show in Canada and now this, it has to raise some major red flags that safety needs to be re-evaluated. Some local claims have been made that cabling to allow for 100MPH straight winds had not been used is adding to the uproar. Meanwhile not only the direct victims who were injured, but all those present will have a dark scar to live with in their minds for a long long time. Interestingly there were no reports of rides falling or breaking in the same winds, something that does bode well for those companies which often are in the news for the wrong reasons. So this annual break from the misery of life in most of the USA today has been shattered. We really need something to raise our collective national hope right now. I haven't seen the USA this down since the mid 70's and stuff like this just seems to pile on.

On the positive side were all the heroes in the audience who rushed the stage and saved people from further harm. People do tend to pull together when things are their worst.

Brian

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