Topic: TAR Disaster Curse

[chill_sd]

Now that the final city has been revealed, this is no longer a spoiler. This happened a few days after the finale was filmed nearby.

This is a little too close.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/07/06/boblo-boat-burns-detroit-marina/763257002/

Detroit — Generations of Metro Detroiters recall cruising aboard the Boblo boat SS Ste. Claire, but those cherished memories went up in flames Friday as the historic steamship caught fire while docked along the Detroit River it plied for nearly 90 years.

[Xoruz]

Star City, which was shown a couple of weeks ago on TAR Israel, had a massive fire on Wednesday.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/02/19/fire-hits-star-city-in-pasay

[topaz]

My home city & country: Manila, Philippines will be feature on next week's episode of TAR 32 & last October & early November, 5 typhoons had struck here.  And there was massive floods and destruction had brought it in some provinces in Luzon especially in Manila. 

[Alenaveda]

Here we go again. A minor earthquake happened tonight at the province of Córdoba in Argentina where the race was filmed some months ago.

[ghmorello]

Nashville, the Season 34 finale city, had a mass shooting at a school.

[freds]

An earthquake happen near Marrakech, Morocco (TAR25 Leg 5 and 6) https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/08/africa/morocco-6-8-magnitude-earthquake-intl-hnk/index.html

[Tober2005]

I don't really know if this ever happened on the Amazing Race or not, but I head that on the news last month that there were wildfires spreading all over Maui and people had to evacuate from their homes with nothing much to do. Don't know if it's still happening now or not.

[ianthebalance]

Is it really a disaster curse if it happens many years later? We can't attribute every disaster to every hit anywhere ever visited by TAR as part of a disaster curse

[LandonM170]

Is it really a disaster curse if it happens many years later? We can't attribute every disaster to every hit anywhere ever visited by TAR as part of a disaster curse

This is what I am thinking. TAR has gone to half the world, it is expected something will happen.

[Alenaveda]

What's been happening during the last days in Iceland still counts as part of the curse?

[G.B.]

Is it really a disaster curse if it happens many years later? We can't attribute every disaster to every hit anywhere ever visited by TAR as part of a disaster curse

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, the original "disaster curse" was the prevalence of disasters occurring after filming, but before airing. Examples of the actual curse include TAR6 Sri Lanka, TAR8 New Orleans, etc. This thread has since devolved into "TAR was here once and something bad is happening", but hardly anything here actually reflects the curse anymore.

[ghmorello]

After the Irish leg trailer was posted last night, Irish singer Shane MacGowan (lead singer of The Pogues) died at 65.

[BourkieBoy]

The mass shooting in Prague the other day that killed 16 and injured 25

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-22/prague-czech-shooting-fifteen-dead/103257814

[redskevin88]

The mass shooting in Prague the other day that killed 16 and injured 25

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-22/prague-czech-shooting-fifteen-dead/103257814

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43419675
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia#Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia_(1989%E2%80%931992)

[ianthebalance]

Not saying it isn’t sad but someplace visited 6 years ago isn’t part of the TAR Disaster Curse

[ghmorello]

After just visiting Japan, one of Japan's biggest anime studios, Studio Gainax filed for bankruptcy.