Pukkelpop Festival Storm 2011 8/18/11

[FlauschigeFeder]

Today the kids are made of sugar and fears for there IPhone. In Woodstock they said: Rain? no, thats a happening! Its ok for me if sissi is killed by raindrops

[FlauschigeFeder]

Diese Jugend von heute, ohne Saft und Kraft. Die langhaarigen Hippies früher haben tagelang im Regen abgefeiert. Die kleinen Weicheier heute taugen nicht mal zum Hippie, die sind aus Zuckerwatte

[brecht181]

I was at the back of the tent, didn't even hear "please exit the tent" because of all the chaos

[90talisten]

LOL THEY ALL GOT OWNED!!!

[Dnbmusci]

@90talisten fuck off douchebag

[thamaster789]

@90talisten I hope you get raped by a bear and ripped into pieces, slowly.

[Ju5t1z3]

@90talisten you sick fuck, hope you die of aids

[90talisten]

@Ju5t1z3

You dont die of aids these days bitch, maybe in the 80s.

[Ju5t1z3]

@90talisten hopefully the bear from above doesn't get youre disease. Where you from troll?

[90talisten]

@Ju5t1z3

Well I am not telling you bitch, but you are from your moms stinky vagina.

[Ju5t1z3]

@90talisten i really don't give a f* but anyway i don't smell at my mums vagina. apparently you do,.. I was there, dance hall plz stfu and go play some cod in youre sad life

[90talisten]

@Ju5t1z3

hahaha bitch got offended, yeah i smell your mommas pussy daily, that stinky pussy needs a good dick. i fuck her daily and your mom loves it <333 ;)

[Ju5t1z3]

@90talisten not offended, not even near. I dont care about the mumy-smell-pussy joke cuz it is made by people with worst humor, no lifers. Cod is apparently true, I wanted to do your mum but the dog was first,..

[nawi0o]

i was on a vacation in Belguim at the time that happened, like, 2 kilometers from the festival terrain, and i was so pissed my parents didn't let me go there! well, at least until i watched the news the next day ...

[tingly7654321]

yea i was right about my comment below i now see the people in the crowd and they are huge faggots i don't give a shit they died i guess i hope they died instantly i guess

[lraXxx]

hoe ironisch dat wij die dag net aan het wachten waren op Panic at the disco!

gelukkig dat er in de marquee niks gebeurd is

[Charlotte23A]

And people still say: "God is a Deejay".

My ass!

[ROLLOneEnt]

swag

[silentscreamish]

Are you blind ? Dont you think about WHO ORDER THE STORM ???? AND A LOCAL STORM ? DONT YOU WANT TO WAKE UP ?

[AliceTheUnicorn]

@silentscreamish What do you mean? Like it's Gods work or something like that? Ha, didn't think so.

A festival isn't something evil or bad, it's just a place where people want to come together to have fun and listen to music. Why would a "God" want to destroy something like that?

In respect for the victims and their families, don't say things like that.

[TheOneAndOnlyMichel]

The answer to thes types of storms is: use geodesic domes. THey take a bit longer to set up, but they are earthquake resistant, sorm resistant, you name it. There is always a next time.

Mother nature didn't like al the noise I guess

[vittumatti]

It was definitely Netskys fault :D

[MakeSomeNoise44]

5 people died !

10 people were hard injured !

and more than 140 people were light injured !

[Cornholio602]

Was Dethklok playing?

[MrHardcorejordy]

i was there, in the beginning it was very awesome and a great festival til the stormweather came and we all had to abbandon the festival

[inst1ct]

there is only 1 things that safed those lives

not the frame but the clouth of the tent that whas so strong that it didnt break

if it was breaking than every comes out of the tent

but the organisations will next tome get the clouth that can break

[Sebizzar]

Poor people came to have a good time :'(

R.I.P. keep partying in heaven & my thoughts are with the injured!!

[MrMickovich]

i was there , at dancehall , when the storm destroyed everything. i saw discoballs falling down on people. 20 meters further , i saw a tent collapsing. Unbelievable what happened. RIP Pukkelpop 2011

[TheBlackpotatoe]

My brother and his friend almost died:(

[tele2312]

RIP Alle mensen die door deze storm zijn overleden :(

[CookiethaCat]

46 persons LIKED it that 5 persons (in total) were killed and then 70 people are injured

[bonenavond]

@CookiethaCat Maybe they like that this guy uploaded this video so they could see how big the damage was. Know we know how terrible it was that day in Hasselt. Just look at the positive side of humanity.

[CookiethaCat]

@bonenavond yeah okay... you've got a point with that

[Jerbod2]

@CookiethaCat I liked for the good quality, not for the drama.

[pakkeman]

@CookiethaCat

ofc.

[hunterofthephoenix]

it's nobody's fault.. nobody can control the weather/nature

[MrCJSful]

Lekker weertje.

[zoelovesmileyselena]

@MrCJSful OMG dat is echt geen leuke opmerking, er zijn twee mensen dood geggaan door dit weer, je bent echt een gevoeloze eikel!

[MrCJSful]

@zoelovesmileyselena wow sorry hoor, ik reageer alleen maar op het weer. ik beledig niemand, ik doe niemand pijn, ik maak alleen een sarcastische opmerking over de weersomstandigheden slimmerik

[zoelovesmileyselena]

@MrCJSful Ik snap wel dat het sarcastisch is, maar mensen zijn door dit weer wel hun dierbare/nabestaande verloren slimmerik! Het is gewoon een ongepast grapje, maar oke, volgens mij begrijp je me niet. Laat dan maar. Maar lees ook even de opmerkingen boven je, die mensen zijn namelijk bijna iemand verloren!

[prozest]

@zoelovesmileyselena wou jij bent echt een kreng.

[theleetking]

where is wiz in al this, cause i saw him run off stage like a little girl. still my hero tho.

[leuk55]

how many countries will still know what's happening with us at Pukkelpop? and then there are a few laugh that happen!

[VJeannie]

I was there!! I was looking for my family for 6 hours I thought they were dead

[hellahansel]

it's funny how nobody recognizes djbonics walking around.

[on88keys]

@hellahansel lol who is djbonics? hahahah

[hellahansel]

@on88keys djbonics is wiz khalifa's tour dj

[lastottoman87]

watch?v=yz_0qVlAisI

[ukipwarrior]

Mighty Belgium will stand strong you have withstood far greater challenges in your long and illustrious history......

[SqoundreL]

@ukipwarrior too obvious, and your intentions are shameful... but whatever...

[pinkjody]

glad yer safe, buddy! xo

[TADog1994]

I WAS THERE AND SAW WIZ RUN LIKE A BITCH!! hahaha; it was epic though

[DolceShady]

@TADog1994 Heard that, couldn't see hem running, too many people in front of me. must've been damn funny though :D

[RobertMuijzers]

I WAS IN THERE!! HAD A GREAT TIME. Too bad though

[TADog1994]

@RobertMuijzers

haha baltoe, ik zen et tunde waha xD

[lilreddroopinyahood]

man that shit was crazy...I hope Wiz would have been like my ass and got the hell out of dodge before the wind would have carried my skinny ass away..

[Pimpthebeat]

Oh my fucking god. I was there. I still can't believe it, really.

[michdaenen]

F*ck man. I was there also

[ProudToBeAGunner]

Madness, complete madness

[AliceTheUnicorn]

It wasn't the fault of the organisation! They had everything tested on stormweather because they knew it was going to storm. But something like this rarely occurs in Belgium, no one could forsee this. The storms were very local, on some places not far from Pukkelpop less worse then here. So don't blame it on the organisation, it isn't their fault.

[ChrisA7X89]

@AliceTheUnicorn

It was definately a big fault of the organisation. It was obvious that those storms were relatively strong. Each one of them in the surrounding area! You could clearly see on the radar, that a right moving storm with bow-echo signatures was heading right towards Hasselt area! That was about 15-20 min. before the downburst hit the festival! So they surely had seen it coming but they were ignorant enough to ignore it. 15-20 min would've been enough to secure most of the people

[BurningPinguin]

@ChrisA7X89

EVERYBODY involved agrees there was nothing the organization could have foreseen! Afterwards it always easy to forsee something isn't it?

The weather specialists say these things can happen in storms like this very locally. When It happens it's mostly above a foreest and goes by unnoticed. It is very unlikely and unlucky it happened above pukkelpop

Stop Rephrasing Dutch Sensational Media narrative

To accuse someone, victims need to file a complaint. Your opinion doesn't matter!

[crazymaxo]

@ChrisA7X89 This is most stupied comment i read. How do u evacuate 60000 people in 15 20 min. Let them walk in panic in to the streets. In these streest also trees were hit. 60000 people walking side by side three falling with iceballs falling on there heads. I wouldn't have like to see how many dead/injured would have been.

[crazymaxo]

@ChrisA7X89 This is most stupied comment i read. How do u evacuate 60000 people in 15 20 min. Let them walk in panic in to the streets. In these streest also trees were hit. 60000 people walking side by side three falling with iceballs falling on there heads. I wouldn't have like to see how many dead/injured would have been

[ChrisA7X89]

@AliceTheUnicorn

And yeah, maybe the testet on "stormweather" or whatever you may call it. Nah, I don't think they did. Cause THIS was a storm, a violent one to say at least. I wanna know how they "tested" it. It is likely that violent T-Storms cause heavy winds. This downburst in Hasselt had windspeeds of about ~160km/h which is F1/T3 intensity. And it was forecasted that T-Storms in this area had the potential of such significant dimensions! They should've evacuated the place! Seriously....

[AliceTheUnicorn]

@ChrisA7X89 Like many people are saying here: it's just not possible to evacuate that place with 60.000 people without panic in such a short time. Where are you going to let them go when you've let them leave the festival? AND the organisator said that they did follow the weather and specialists said the storm would go just next the festival. No one knew this would happen, it's just very very unlucky. Storms like this almost never occur in Belgium, never. So stop blaiming the organisation.

[ChrisA7X89]

@AliceTheUnicorn

You - and millions of other people - believe everything you see/hear through the media, don't you? The so called "sudden appearing" of this storm is just WRONG! It was likely that heavy storms would cross belgium this day. They knew it at least since the beginning of the day. So they definately didn't follow the weather. If so, they would've abborted the festival. And THIS storm wasn't very hard to predict. Supercell's occur quite often, in belgium also! They knew it! Believe me

[AliceTheUnicorn]

@ChrisA7X89 How would you have done this then? I would gladly know how YOU would've abborted a festival this big, without creating panic, without knowing how huge this storm was. It's easy for you to say now that "they knew". Do you honestly think that Chokri, and the rest of the organisation, would've risked this if they knew? It's his lifework of 26 years, the man looks utterly defeated. If there were mistakes made, believe me, it would've been shown in the media. Of that, I AM sure.

[SoAmbitious7]

@ChrisA7X89 Only 5 people died! 'only' isn't a nice word to use here, but there were 60 000 at the festival and only 5 people died! Thanks to Chokri and his crew, thanks to safe tents! It's easy for you to say these things, but it's useless and ignorant. I wonder, were you there? Did you lose someone in the storm? We don't need ignorant people like you, trying to blame someone. Show some respect.

[Djeemiee]

@SoAmbitious7

In Netherland they told 6 people did die.

[SoAmbitious7]

@Djeemiee Er was veel verwarring en onzekerheid, ook over het aantal doden, maar uiteindelijk blijkt dat er 5 doden zijn, 3 zwaargewonden vechten nog voor hun leven en verdere 6 mensen zijn zwaargewond buiten levensgevaar.

[Djeemiee]

@SoAmbitious7

Oke. vandaar.

[AliceTheUnicorn]

@ChrisA7X89 And just for the record: Pukkelpop is the safest festival here in Belgium, probably on of the safest of the world. Like the organisation of Dour said: if you have to stop and evacuate a festival every time there is a storm forseen, it's better to stop making festivals alltogether.

[swenneman]

@AliceTheUnicorn Exactly. It was just the way it had to be, and no human being could have changed that the storm striked exactly at the festival area of pukkelpop. Nature can be hard sometimes, and not every time people can do something about that. R.I.P.

[Rik4100]

@AliceTheUnicorn at that moment of the thunderstorm we were eating in a asian restaurant in Antwerp

but we had a severe thunderstorm too but not SO severe such as here

[jellevm2308]

"everythings good until it goes bad ..."

[VoiceCollector2012]

De organisatie is schuldig aan dit hele drama

een weers alarm was al gegeven

echt derde wereld land niveau van organiseren

[xfgher]

@VoiceCollector2012 misschien een beetje overrreactie ? hier bij ons , slechts 100 km verder heeft het slechts geregend , je kan windstoten echt niet voorzien waar die gaan opsteken ! de organisatie treft geen schuld aangezien er geen schuldige kan zijn voor een natuurramp ? de evacuatie etc verliep moeiteloos , hulpverlening arriveerde tijdig , en al bij al is de menselijke schade beperkt gebleven , het had veel erger kunnen zijn. ( kijk naar duisburg en massahysterie)

[breakbeat326]

@VoiceCollector2012

mongol

[VoiceCollector2012]

@breakbeat326 idioot

[JiS01]

I don't understand, at first they ask everyone to leave the tent, but at the end you see everyone is stil there lol..

[DolceShady]

@JiS01 I was there myself, it wasn't possbile to go outside! There was hail, like 5cm balls of it, and the wind was way too heavy.

[ohowklofrau]

@DolceShady I went outside and the first instinct was to go back in. But I stayed and got soaked in mere seconds.

[DolceShady]

@ohowklofrau crazy shit. Glad dancehall didn't collapse.

[Knuddeknokke]

@JiS01 Footage wrong edited. What you first see is the end, i presume. And eventualy he is a good cameraman because when the crowd cheers (seeing his camera) he evoid contact knowing the seriousness of the drama. (Oh and if you know what LOL means... perhaps don't use it here.)

[brecht181]

@JiS01 Do you know how much hail it was outside lol? everyone of the inside was trying to get out while everyone outside was trying to get in.. I was at the back of the tent and never heared anybody say "please exit the tent" because of all the chaos and the noise of people screaming..

[waasland13]

this is dance hall, fuck this shit, we were so lucky that this didn't fell apart because it would have taken a lot of lives ;s at this moment i was in dance hall, i ass really freaking, everybody was running outside and they were pushing scrathing and punching to get out :s

[trafoallomasmusic]

the first footage is the boiler room?

[rem00756]

@trafoallomasmusic Dance hall



[johnmassis]

Thanks for posting. I was standing in front of the stage when panic started ... Scary stuff!

[mesdoigts1]

Une pensée aux 5 personnes décédé cette nuit là.. . . . . . .

[Plinamore]

i was there too, didn't know what to do, i couldn't get out of the tent because there was too much people pushing and falling, we stayed in when it was storming.

i'm so happy i'm alive, but still a few friends of mine are missing.

[Echo008]

I was there, we ran to the backstage and went to the place where this guy was filming, hectic!

[NikkiUploads]

I'm glad they said 'Please exit the tent'. If that tent had collapsed, it would have been hell worse. This is horrible to see. Pukkelpop is in my eyes the coolest festival in Belgium. It hurts to see that people run around as if their life depends on it. Pukkelpop, or any festival for that matter, will never be the same in Belgium.

[greenday9099]

@NikkiUploads they said please exit the tent and i was there, i left the tent but i ran back in there and almost everyone did

[memeeeeh]

@NikkiUploads indeed.

[pierooke]

The tent was moving like hell , very dangerous , smartest move was to go outside en cover your head... I was there , it was crazy.

[JayCeeOH]

dude this shit is nuts

[MrJipken]

a sad day :(

[BartIckx]

@TehAWAL: Outside was safer than inside, that's why it was better to evacuate.

[mr1derful]

damn son glad ur ok

[TehAWAL]

actually i see now haha

[TehAWAL]

why the fuck did they tell everyone to exit the tent?? especially when its storming like a mother fucker outside...

[SnoozMusic]

@TehAWAL I was there, 4 tents collapsed..

[xfgher]

@TehAWAL because other tents started collapsing , those tents aren't build for that kind of weather , and whe nthose heavy structures hit your head , your gone . 5 people already lost there lives , some are stil in intensive care ..

[VoiceCollector2012]

@xfgher Many more people lost their lives as they knew it. THis is a falure of the organisation

[ohowklofrau]

@TehAWAL I was in there. The camera didn't really catch the drama of it all. The discoballs were swinging in a radius of at least 1,5 meters sidewards. They could so easily have fallen down.

The ceiling was going up and down. The tent on the other side of the way collapsed.

If the dancehall had collapsed, there would have been way more dead people.

[DubbieJWZ]

@ohowklofrau One fell down. & someone took it as a souvenir...

[callmemich]

@ohowklofrau Same goes with the boiler room...

I was standing underneath the covered part next to the boiler room when it "collapsed"

Was like I was in a nightmare :s

Never seen a storm like this in my life!

[weeardguy]

@ohowklofrau The fact that everything remained in place just make me give credits to the riggers: the guy in this video that calm though urgently speaks to leave the tent did a great job.

[Twneez]

@TehAWAL in the beginning of the vid you see the iron bars wiggling. everyone was afraid it would fall so we all got literally PUSHED outside.

[LiseCreation]

@TehAWAL because if the things fell down a lot of people would die

[wEeZy9o8]

first.

[perfectlivinvisions]

that shit cra