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  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Location: Edinburgh

Wondering if any one has heard anything? My friends were at the festival waiting for Green Day to play, according to them this is what happened. Around twenty minutes before they were due on stage a thunderstorm broke over head. Massive hail started falling in the middle of Thirty Seconds To Mars and the wind just got insane. People started screaming “tornado†as bits of the stage started coming apart in the wind and falling in to the crowd. Over twenty people have been taken to hospital there is believed to be at least one serious injury. According to my friend the tornado was small but side swept the festival. She believes they got his by a downburst rather than the tornado itself but she did say there was extreme rotation in the cloud base not far from where they were.

Of course festival has been cancelled for the rest of the night. Friends are pretty shook up obviously and I'm just left trouser leged I wasn't there >_>

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  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Location: Edinburgh

Jesus I'm just glad that my friends are all right, they were right at the front of the barrier when bits of the stage started coming down.

Appparently they arn't sure if tomorrow will go a head, lighting hit the stage and fried the audio visual equipment.

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  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)
  • Location: Eastbourne, East Sussex (work in Mid Sussex)

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Storm Heineken Jammin 'Festival: Twenty injured, suspended the Green Day concert

A violent storm, which hit at Venice and the province late on Sunday, has forced organizers to suspend for the second time in three years the concerts Heineken Jammin 'Festival. Twenty five hundred people injured and evacuated. Green Day concert canceled after the hardships, the organizers ensure the continuation of the program for the day today

VENICE. Many have thought the curse Heineken, the tornado in 2007 that swept away everything in the park of San Giuliano, towers, stage curtains. The fear is back in the audience and the organizers of the Heineken Jammin 'Festival last night after 20, when the sky turned pitch black and less than half an hour the storm was unleashed. Suspended the event, panic, useless greens, three wounded, a hook eye of the stage hit a Red Cross volunteer, was transported by ambulance to the hospital of the Angel, Angel and two coaches have transported 17 children Almost all minor hypothermia.

The volunteers distributed blankets. As an insult after 40 degree days of the sudden cold. The wind was very strong, it was necessary to hold with hands pegs anchor and support poles of the tents would otherwise have flown away. "The structures have held up well - last night said Roberto De Luca - proving to be safe. The storm was expected at 3 am under the weather. Cables should dry in four hours. Tomorrow (today, ed) decide any refunds. "

But also yesterday began in the sign of the heat of Africa. Temperatures above 40 degrees, to steal more than 4,000 bottles of water distributed to the 3000 exhibition irreducible waiting Green Day, 30 Seconds To Mars, Editors, Rise Against and laminate floor Sons Of Dionysus. No hoses on the crowd, by order of the police. The risk was a brief respite, then replaced by a murderous humidity.

Hard work yesterday for the Red Cross. 60 actions numbered in midafternoon, especially heat stroke, but there are many medications for bites of mosquitoes and horseflies, blisters, some drunk. A couple of boys were transferred to the A ngel tests, but they are good. If the first day were filled with 5,000 parking spaces, 18 were counted yesterday at 3,500 machines. One scalper was blocked, a Neapolitan who ran out of the park by bike. It 'was fined and was arrested he had a ticket. Yesterday also deployed about 300 policemen, 200 volunteers of Civil Defence and 400 men of the Red Cross. 117 emergency assistance for heat stroke.

And yesterday the Red Cross in Mestre was also praised by Vice Mayor Sandro Simionato: "Together with the Civil Defence are making the event safer and better." The machine of the Red Cross, with four points and two first aid centers resuscitation Saturday rescued a young man with a broken ankle and a boy hit in the face by a ball. The first day ended with 24,561 people inside the park. Tickets for the first day were mainly sold via the Internet in Lombardy (24.5%), Ontario (19%) and Emilia-Romagna (10%), Piedmont (7%). Many foreigners in the first place, the Swiss, Austrian and later American, English and Spanish. It also came from Brazil, Argentina, Australia and the Bahamas.

Translated from the original at: nuovavenezia.gelocal.it

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  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Location: Edinburgh

Thanks, seems like Weather wasn't the problem here, people knew what to do when it turned bad it was security! Apparently in that heat there was no water being given our for free and the bottled water cost a fortune hence so many people got heat stoke. When the storm hit people were trying to take refuge from the large hail and debries in tents and security flung them back out again. Redic!

Thank you for the article though Coast yoru a wee gem, reliving to know what happened can stop being paranoid now.

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