Natural weather outdoors
The Red Rocks amphitheater is a natural mountain formation just west of Denver that lent itself to concert audiences. The area is a national park and nature has been enhanced with many rows of openair seating and a covered stage down in the valley. Concertgoers attending a Louis Tomlinson concert Wednesday night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre were hoping to see live music. Severe storms moved through the Denver area with the National Weather Service office in Boulder warning of “golf ball-sized hail or larger” near Red Rocks. People were urged to take cover from the storm. Red Rocks initially told fans the concert was under a weather delay, then officially postponed the show after many of the seats were filled. Concert attendee, Nicole Criner described the storm as an “extreme downpour” that seemingly came within minutes.
The show started pretty normally, although there were a few clouds in the sky through the opening act, Nicole said. Between the first and second act, there was rain and lightning, and Red Rocks officials informed the crowd of the first delay of the evening. After the first delay, she said they were told the concert would resume, so people went back to their seats. Eventually, Criner said there was an official announcement that the venue highly recommended people to take shelter in their cars. From there, she said it began to hail, first smaller pieces then an “extreme downpour” within five minutes, with hail up to the size of golf balls. Nicole and her sister found a sign and took cover under it. “There really isn’t much protection once you get out (to Red Rocks),” Criner said. Her glasses were swept away in the downpour, and she and her sister took refuge in a car that was passing by, offering those still outside shelter. “Most cars in the parking lot had hail damage,” Nicole reported. “Some windshields were shattered.”
Nicole described the storm like a tsunami that came within minutes. The video below shows the deluge and hail coming down a staircase as lightning flashes in the sky and alarmed concertgoers run for shelter. “About 10 minutes before the hail started really coming down, I got hit with a small piece of it, and didn’t realize it was hail until it started coming down on us out of nowhere.” Jessie Mueller and her friends who found shelter in the bathroom said. “We are unharmed, but some of my other friends got caught in it and now have broken bones and bruises,” Jessie said. “I saw just piles and piles of hail, and it looks like it had snowed in the seats of the amphitheater when we finally got out of the bathroom.” Metro Fire Rescue in Lakewood, Colorado said seven people were transported to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, and a total of 80 to 90 people were treated at the scene for injuries including cuts and broken bones… Nicole said she still plans to return to the postponed concert when it is rescheduled.
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