Reply #12: Rally video

[jmknapp]

I haven't looked at my video footage from last night, but there are some impressive shots of the crowd I think, from the vantage point of the extreme rear (being a white-ticketed person). In the back there were some small bleacher-style stands that gave me a good perch--luckily my camcorder has good zoom.

There was a horrifying scene involving those bleachers. There were about seven rows on each and three separate units. Sometime around 11:00 one of the units collapsed completely to the ground amidst a horrible racket, and the people went over like dominoes. The medics came in very efficiently though and helped people out of the pile. It looked like there were no serious injuries, but an old lady was taken away on a stretcher.

In all, it was fascinating to arrive early and see how this all came together at the last instant, and even this near-tragedy was handled very well.

I wish there was a good way to distribute video online because even short clips are so huge in bytes.