Yet Another Fatal Collapse-Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium

I can't even keep up with all these horrendous collapse tragedies.  

Here's a Google news search on the deadly collapse(s) at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium.

Two friends emailed this to me, and one put it best--what were these people doing out in this kind of storm? 

There are initial reports of a possible tornado.  I don't have time right now to dig out European radar archives, but by looking at the intensity of the storm in the videos, my guess is that you could see this thing coming.  Storms of this intensity rarely just appear "out of no where".

Horrible and sad.

Comments

[Greg Poulos]

Tragic I agree. I wouldn't call it an equipment failure here.
Trees knocked down into the tent/stage rig.
What's bothersome though, is the ongoing lack of decision making on people holding these events during storm conditions.
A tent? No one should be in a tent during a storm of this type.

Where was event management?

[festus]

your guess is right. i haven´t seen the belgian radar, but i´m just 200 km northwest in dortmund, germany. the stormfront was clearly visble on radar, way before noon german weather services predicted Xaver hitting us from 20.00 to 23.00 and that´s exactly what happened. a tent-based festival decided to close down and sent his visitors home some minutes later.