Edwin, AWESOME VIDEO!!! Mother nature is .... formidable!! Great footage.....
Yeah, it was nuts. We were scheduled to play from 5 to 6:30. When we arrived around 3:30, it was a beautiful day, mid 80s. I changed into shorts and short sleeve shirt and then we got set up on the side stage. Around 4:50 it started looking like might get a sprinkle, so we decided to hang out to see if it would blow over. At 5:05, all hell broke loose, it dropped 20 degrees and all of a sudden hail flew at us sideways at 70mph for twenty minutes. Then it reversed direction and then again, over and over for a total of close to 90 minutes. After about an hour of it, it felt like we had always been on that stage, clinging to our gear, and we would always be. It was our entire reality for all eternity. The area behind the stage became a torrent of frozen water, with our singer up past his knees in it, trying to keep the amps from blowing off the back of the stage. By the time it was over, he was blue practically all over and shivering uncontrollably. The whole campground was devastated, but weirdly we were the only band that missed their set entirely, as it all moved indoors to one of those big fairground buildings. At first we were told there were tornados just over the ridge, but we found it out it was a series of microbursts. Luckily, no one was killed or seriously injured, even with lightning strikes on trees that were sheltering people and a partial collapse of the main stage.
Here's a photo of the Summer Camp gig the next day.
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The Starfire also had a run-in with Hurricane Ike in Arkansas (and again further north) and a number of other notable weather events.