This evening, while we were at the Foothill football game to watch one of my kids play in the band, a nasty hailstorm hit our neighborhood, with some areas of our complex getting a nice covering of hail, as seen above.
Meanwhile, at the Foothill game, which is located at College and the 95 in Henderson, when we got to the stadium at half time, there was a little bit of lightening in the area. Then as time went by, the storm got closer and closer and by the time the 4th quarter hit, the lightening and thunder were quite close to the stadium.
Then, when with about 2 minutes left, the rain started and when the game ended, it was pouring out and the lightening was directly over the stadium but yet the idiot band director, who had the tubas on the top of the stadium- nice lightening targets, decided that was a good time to play the school fight song. In the pouring rain. with lightening and thunder all around.
Either the band director ought to be fired or charged with child abuse for putting these kids in danger. Further, I am quite sure that playing brass and other metal instruments in the rain is also not good for the instruments. But hey, it's just expensive instruments paid for by the tax payers of Clark County or the instruments are privately owned by the parents in band.
As the spectators were leaving the stadium, there was some hail, heavy winds and a severe thunderstorm warning was issued.
The game was televised live by Cox cable Channel 12, MyLVTV, for Thursday Night Lights, so was that the reason why the game was still being played in a lightening storm?
I don't know who, but many people put the fans, students and athletes were were put in danger. was it the officials? School administration? The cops? And certainly the band director deserves a lot of blame for making the kids to play a song in a near empty stadium while it is pouring, thundering and lightening outside.
But hey, we have big egos to protect and commercial revenue to save.
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