Great American Taxi's Delfest 2009 set.....talk about blowing the roof off the place!

This is the view from the campground stage during the severe weather at Delfest 09' We're just trying to salvage the gear.....it starts out somewhat mellow, but gets very intense, very fast. At the beginning the Front of House Sound tent is still there, but not for long! On the stage at the time were the Great American Taxi (Chad Staehly, Vince Herman, Edwin Hurwitz, Chris Sheldon) Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth, and some of the Delfest sound crew...

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[daveincville]

I think we had a supercell storm: A severe thunderstorm is a thunderstorm that contains 1 or more of the following:

- Hail that is 3/4 of an inch or greater in diameter

- Winds 58 miles per hour or greater

- Tornadoes

They are tremendously powerful and well-organized, containing rotating columns of rising air..capable of maintaining severe strength for hours; produce dangerous straight line winds, large hail and torrential rain; sometimes they spawn particularly strong tornadoes.

[staggerlee1980]

Yes....it is classified best as a Micro Burst. I've had a meteorologist watch the video, and check the data. I will be doing a telephone interview on the Weather Channel tonight at about 7:50p.m. EST as they show the video!

[sarakeeton]

Great footage of the craaaaaaaazy storm at delfest! Was this posted by Forrest? AHHH YEAH, 3/4 inch hail! Good times had for all.

[staggerlee1980]

Yes as a matter of fact this is Forrest

[Bershlosh]

i had an entire colman grill blow off the back of our car into me, as well as ridiculous amount of welts from the hail. I watched tents and pop-ups literally fly past me, down the road. port-o-pots were flipped as well, but then some people righted them. i would have hated to be the person who opened the door and realized that........

[kylejbritt1991]

I was there! That was crazy haha I had bruises all over from the hail

[goodtimes12342]

holy crap, your girlfriend got struck by lightning?

[Golgiguy]

I was at the Haymaker festival and as well as this years Delfest and have to disagree. Both were in my top 5 most fuct up storms I've ever been through but this one was much worse ie: the hail and lightning(my girl frirend was one of the many that got struck).

[libbro1]

A pretty impressive storm, but also not on my top three. I would say the mother of all storms was at the Haymaker festival in Virginia a few years ago (the one Little Feat was supposed to play at but all their stuff was destroyed).

[TBOPACY]

Two people were struck by lightning, but were fine.

We were under (and holding onto) one of the few E-Z up canopies that survived. Afterward, there was a rather large make shift 'sculpture' of abandoned/destroyed canopies and tents (although most tents were fine).

[TheMantis1point0]

DAMN

[GrouchoMarxist22]

That was fucking awesome!!!!!

Unless someone was injured, then it's not so awesome. In fact, it wouldn't be awesome at all.

[kowgrl]

I was in the T.P. that ended up flat....I jumped into my pickup just in time, but saw others pinned under the huge TP poles...No serious injuries,,,

[Davissontube]

Yeah. They'll be a clip of the Davisson Brothers Band doing "Frankilns Tower" with Ronnie McCoury up soon.