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This is the best pic I've taken of the cannons by far. That's Bertha in the middle.
See that little stack of glow sticks over to the right? That would be 'The Man' as in the 'Burning Man'.
The man is 72' feet tall, if that helps give you an idea of scale. Those little specs..those are people.
The prior year (2000) I had helped Jim fill the cannons & got to fire them off.
After my turn at the firing board, I went out to one of the smaller cannons with a fire extinguisher
to do fire safety. Right as we were about to start up again, it occured to me to radio Jim about worst-case
scenarios. "Jim? Number 4 is clear, but I was wondering...uh, how do you know when the extinguisher isn't
doing any good & it's time to haul ass out?" ~radio silence~ "Erin, don't worry about it...you can't run FAST enough."
Uhhh. Maybe this isn't such a good idea.
It amazes me that I am insanely safety paranoid in the real world, but the minute you get me to Burning Man, my
brains go right out the window.
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