Thousands of spectators were watching the band Cheap Trick perform when a sudden storm swept over the outdoor concert and toppled the main stage just before 8 p.m. on Sunday.
A severe thunderstorm watch had been in effect on Sunday night, but CTV Ottawa reporter Katie Griffin said the storm arrived with little warning and caught everyone by surprise.
"It just happened so fast," Griffin told CTV's Canada AM from Ottawa on Monday morning.
Okay, I get that severe weather is the new normal (thanks, global climate change!),but don't you fuck with Cheap Trick, Mother Nature!
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That is genuinely scary shit. Wow.
ReplyDeleteI just saw that on CNN. Crazy.
ReplyDeleteHoly.
ReplyDeleteFucking.
Shit.
I can't believe what I'm seeing. AND, no one got hurt.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, I was taking my daughter to a Cheap Trick concert at MSG. She told her grandfath - my father-in-law - about it on the phone. He said, "Let me speak to your father!"
ReplyDeleteHe got me on the phone & said, "What the hell kind of band is that - Cheap Prick?!?"
I thought to myself, takes one to know one.
"severe weather is the new normal"
ReplyDeleteNo, the new normal is that there are cameras everywhere that record this stuff. I'm sure this has happened in the pre-camera phone day. Like the tree falling in the forest no one was around to hear it like we "hear" it today.
Yeah, right. And Al Gore is fat.
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