>Hi everyone !
>I am wondering if this is somewhat off topic, sorry if it is...
>I don't really know how many of you would know (I guess all those in Sydney at
>least would know) of the "thredbo disaster"... if you don't let me just give
>you a quick summary.... Land slide near a ski resort village caused two
>resorts to fall onto each other. There were 20 (i think) people who were
>thought to be amongst the rubble. So emergancy crews are hard at work even now
>to find the people. So far 10 (?) bodies have been found. On the saturday just
>gone, the workers discovered a person alive. And they spent the whole day
>trying to get him out. Which they did.
>As I sat there watching on saturday I kept thinking about "the rest of my
>life" episode of PG. I mean, the people were saying that they think they were
>2 metres from the guy, and I kept thinking "I hope they're not talking to him
>through a pipe" and that they're further from him than they think (which
>happened to be the case) And I just kept thinking about all the bits of the
>episode and kinda finding parrallels to what was actually happening. Did
>anyone else do this ? Or am the only one who actually sat there the whole
>saturday watching ?
>Mayo
I did the same thing. Your right there were many parrallels. I also
vaguely remember Sarah's commens when she was woking on getting the
story for the paper about how unreal in seemed to be up on top of a
building and to have this desater underneath her. By the way for
anyone interested there were only 19 people traped in the landslide 1
of the missing turned up in country NSW.
Natacha
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