WFAA’s Teresa Woodard graduated from Texas A&M in 1997, two years before the accident. She worked as a reporter in College Station until days before the collapse.
okay I'm not going to lie... and I'm trying to be nice, but this was very weird and tone deaf. Like OVER half of this is just of her and she wasn't even there. The smiling is also very off putting.
Seems like a paid PR stunt. I am working with an TAMU retired professor currently and he explained this tragedy much much differently. Also explained to me that the University was sketchy about how they investigated the tragedy and the fact that the University President stayed in his position for another 4 years following this event.
I remember when this happened and I found out 12 people died I was like how? Then I see 19 year old kids working 50 feet in the air and moving logs into place with a crane. Oh, that's how. This just seemed like a complete disaster waiting to happen.
Although the cause of the collapse isn't talked about here, I disagree with commonly accepted failure of the center post. This was a teepee shape and the strength of such a structure relys on triangulation of the sides without a center post. Unless wood was not added evenly and equally during construction, straining the center post. This could not have happened as described. Cables or chains holding the stacked bundles into individual bundles seem a more likely cause. A center post wouldn't even be necessary in such a teepee.
It wasn't a teepee shape but a wedding cake configuration. I don't know if the centerpole failure was the cause or not (it did break) but one reason for the collapse was that the logs on the upper tiers were wedged into the lower ones. The current, off-campus, bonfire design has all logs touching the ground. It is still a wedding cake type config, but isn't quite as big. The old Aggie Bonfire design was the teepee shape, but that ended sometime in '70s, I believe, when they went to the configuration that worked until the collapse in '99. There was also a minor collapse with either no or few (insignificant) injuries in 1994 (I think) where they were able to reconstruct it quickly before the burn. I think had they taken the hint from 1994 and redesigned the stack, this event wouldn't have happened.
I also asked that to myself watching this. In my university, I am an Aggie. An aggie is a student taking up a course under the College of Agriculture. So Aggie came from "Agriculture". I heard that Texas A&M known for students whose parents are farmers. But I still don't know though if our Aggie is the same with their Aggie.🥴
@@killat1293 I also asked that to myself watching this. In my university, I am an Aggie. An aggie is a student taking up a course under the College of Agriculture. So Aggie came from "Agriculture". I heard that Texas A&M is known for students whose parents are farmers. But I still don't know though if our Aggie is the same with their Aggie.🥴
