Hail, Broken Bones, Bronchitis Mark End To Sturgis '09
The Mother of All Hailstorms?
They don't call it the "Wild West" 4nothing..
Sturgis, Friday, 5:30pm.
Cops say they ran the sirens, trying to warn bikers, but it was already too late. Inside the Buffalo Chip campground alone, thousands of cars, motorcycles, & rv's were decimated by hail which began as ice-cube sized, & ran on up into the major leagues of baseball proportion. Nearly every vehicle in and around rt 34 on the hill outside of town, was damaged, some so badly they had to be towed. Inside the Chip, one of those bb-sized ice orbs smashed thru a tent, hitting a biker in the head, leaving him unconcious. (that'd be the meat wagon we heard screaming up the access road just after the storm passed.)
Band Woes...
Steven Tyler broke his shoulder. 24 hours later, Buckcherry's Josh Todd, suffering from a bout of bronchitis, bowed out, but not until belting out "Crazy B--ch" for the appreciative crowd.
ABM listeners were warned about the "devils triangle" of weird wx which seems to come out of nowhere in this area, through ABM's of Monday & Tuesday, before bike week. Those who heard the shows may have suffered less damage than non-listners. A NOAA wx radio goes a long way when there's a seemingly innocent shower on the horizon. Some bikers actually rode thru bb sized hail in the campground. How they were not knocked out, we'll never know. Dumb luck?
They don't call it the "Wild West" 4nothing..
Sturgis, Friday, 5:30pm.
Cops say they ran the sirens, trying to warn bikers, but it was already too late. Inside the Buffalo Chip campground alone, thousands of cars, motorcycles, & rv's were decimated by hail which began as ice-cube sized, & ran on up into the major leagues of baseball proportion. Nearly every vehicle in and around rt 34 on the hill outside of town, was damaged, some so badly they had to be towed. Inside the Chip, one of those bb-sized ice orbs smashed thru a tent, hitting a biker in the head, leaving him unconcious. (that'd be the meat wagon we heard screaming up the access road just after the storm passed.)
Band Woes...
Steven Tyler broke his shoulder. 24 hours later, Buckcherry's Josh Todd, suffering from a bout of bronchitis, bowed out, but not until belting out "Crazy B--ch" for the appreciative crowd.
ABM listeners were warned about the "devils triangle" of weird wx which seems to come out of nowhere in this area, through ABM's of Monday & Tuesday, before bike week. Those who heard the shows may have suffered less damage than non-listners. A NOAA wx radio goes a long way when there's a seemingly innocent shower on the horizon. Some bikers actually rode thru bb sized hail in the campground. How they were not knocked out, we'll never know. Dumb luck?
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