Baloonfest 1986 Cleveland.

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benjeeboi1231 on November 29th, 2021 at 12:27 UTC »

Ecological disaster

gotora on November 29th, 2021 at 12:28 UTC »

Cool picture, but good lord they must be still cleaning up all that latex.

zork3001 on November 29th, 2021 at 13:04 UTC »

Severe storms the night before had caused significant damage across Northeast Ohio and capsized a boat. It washed ashore the morning of the launch, but the two fisherman were still missing.

The U.S. Coast Guard were searching for the men by helicopter and by boat, when the balloons began raining down on them. That forced the pilot to land and made it virtually impossible to recover the men.

“I caught the guy flying the Coast Guard helicopter and he said it was like flying through an asteroid belt, you just couldn’t see,” Zurcher said. “And the balloons on the water looked like heads, and the men weren’t found until several days after the balloons.”