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Again, the decision was made based on weather reports. My guess is that TV technicians were not consulted at a time when they should have been. Any tech who has worked sporting events would have told them months ago to have an indoor contingency plan. Watching events on TV does not qualify anyone to know the safety of the situation.
The chairwoman who planned the event went onto the late-night version of Hardball with nothing but praise for Charlotte. This is important because there are frequently congressional meetings outside of DC. The drive time to Charlotte would not be significantly worse than one of their favorite spots, the Greenbriar, in Berkley Springs, WV. They do need to do make-goods for the ticket holders.
As for no rain, , earlier in the day a reporter showed up on, I think it was Andrea Mitchell's show, dripping wet from rain. Before network coverage started, it was reported on cable coverage, that it was raining nearby.
There were storms in the area as people attested to, so the claim that the DNC moved the event to a smaller venue because they didn’t want to look embarrassed by not being able to fill the stadium is in accurate, since there is other evidence suggesting that they had a 19,000 long wait list and forecasts called for a chance of storms. I’ll go with safety.
But let me tell you what they really didn’t want; storms coming in and ripping the place apart with 75,000 people out in the open, running for cover, the stage in a twisted heap of steel and wood on the cover of Time with a headline: “Who’s to blame?” That’s what they didn’t want.
Last week for the RNC got unlucky with the weather and that and an empty chair over shadowed their event.
For the DNC, talk is more concentrated on the convention, speeches crowds in center city. Not about how the stadium needed to be evacuated during the POTUS’s big speech because the DNC took a chance and safety be darned, held the event outdoors.
Funny people think a rainstorm is cause for safety concerns. I guess all those Panthers players, staff, and their fans that still go in rain are at risk. Maybe they should call those games too
All of the Charlotte weather stations show 0 rainfall in the last 24 hours. I know we have had none here and my $30 electronic weather station accurately predicted no rain for yesterday evening.
I wasn't in Charlotte, but watched it on CNN. They showed all the people coming into Time Warner Arena soaking wet. I don't know as I wasn't there, maybe they were all outside playing in the sprinklers, but I'm going to guess that it rained. That and they showed video from the Epicenter of it raining, and talked about the "dark, ominous clouds" overhead.
Funny people think a rainstorm is cause for safety concerns. I guess all those Panthers players, staff, and their fans that still go in rain are at risk. Maybe they should call those games too
Funny how people think the DNC is just like any Sunday football game.
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