[net-gold] DISASTERS : UNITED STATES: STATES: INDIANA: Indiana Fair Officials Had Warning of Dangerous Winds
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- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:38:06 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS :
UNITED STATES: STATES: INDIANA:
Indiana Fair Officials Had Warning of Dangerous Winds
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Indiana Fair Officials Had Warning of Dangerous Winds
By Heather Gillers, Tim Evans and John Russell
The Indianapolis Star
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/
2011-08-17-indiana-fair-weather-warning_n.htm
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3bukwhc
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INDIANAPOLIS Emergency responders nationwide know what a National Weather
Service warning means: Take cover. Immediately.
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But that wasn't the message fair officials delivered to concertgoers when
they received that warning the most serious alarm the National Weather
Service can sound at 8:39 p.m. Saturday night. Instead fair officials
waited six minutes and then told 12,000 Sugarland fans assembled under a
towering stage a very different message: The show would go on.
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That was four minutes before high winds knocked over the stage structure,
killing five people and injuring more than 45 others.
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"Wow, that's incredible," weather.com meteorologist Tim Ballisty said of
the decision not to immediately evacuate the grandstand. "It pains me to
hear that because then the assumption is: Sugarland's about to come on, I
don't want to miss this."
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An Indianapolis Star review of documents as well as interviews with
weather and safety experts suggests the choice not to evacuate was just
the last in a series of decisions by fair officials and state police to
ignore meteorologists' recommendations, nationally accepted safety
practices, and even the fair's own severe weather emergency plan.
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And, contrary to the way state officials have characterized the wind gust
that brought down the stage, those weather experts insist the high winds
were neither unpredictable, nor unforeseen.
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State officials are launching their own investigation and bringing in a
New York-based engineering firm to investigate the structural collapse,
but they continue to portray it as an unforeseeable accident.
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Gov. Mitch Daniels referred to the powerful wind gust that upset the stage
as a "fluke."
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Others strongly disagree.
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"This is in no way a fluke or freak or unforeseeable," said Mike Smith,
senior vice president of AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions in Wichita, Kan.
His firm provides weather information to a variety of public and private
clients, including the Texas State Fair.
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Smith said AccuWeather issued a warning to a client near the Indiana
fairgrounds at 8:23 p.m. advising of 60 mph winds. Smith used the same
radar systems as the National Weather Service the same information
available to fair officials.
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That was 26 minutes before the collapse
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"When you get a warning, you should act immediately," said Smith, a board
certified consulting meteorologist and fellow of the American
Meteorological Society. "You should not be second-guessing. You need to
act immediately. And in a case like that, it means take shelter."
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But that was one of several warnings state fair officials and state police
apparently failed to heed.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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