Have You Ever Been In A Disaster?

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Excepting this thread!

I often wonder what it would be like to be involved in and survive a disaster, e.g. plane crash, earthquake, tsunami, or whatever. I have this strange desire to be on the perimeter of a disaster and watch it all unfold.

Anyone here have a 'live to tell the tale' disaster story?

Been balls deep in yor Da

johnr1 wrote: »

I havent been, but my bollox of a so-called friend was queueing to go into one of the twin towers when the plane hit......if only......
(yes, he would have deserved it):D

I really, really want to hear an explaination for the above, got to be something of the sexy type.

The majority of 2010 was a disaster for me.

I was walking along the street in my hometown of Villeurbanne (Lyon) when a nail bomb exploded outside a jewish school. It was lucky the school's clocks were fast (and possibly the bomb's late) and the kids had exited some 10 minutes before, no one was killed I think (don't even think any pedestrians got hurt !). I was in a perpendicular street so we saw it happening from a safe distance.

edit : I found a video of it !!!

http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/justice-et-faits-divers/video/I04223925/terrorisme-en-france-attentat-a-la-bombe-devant-une-ecole-juive-a-villeurbanne.fr.html

... and excuse my fuzzy memory, the tv presenter is saying there were actually 11 people injured, one in a serious condition (a passer by in fact), and it wasn't that the school's clocks were fast, they were in fact late, and the school bell hadn't rung yet, so children were still inside their classrooms ! The bomb had apparently been timed to explode when they were exiting... imagine. :mad: Who the hell can do something like that ?

I was in a disaster all right... The Great Killaloe Boating Disaster of April 2010!
(NOTE: It was only a disaster because the Coast Guard sold the story to the papers and embelleshed it about 5,000%)

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0403/killaloe.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0403/breaking14.html

http://www.thurles.info/2010/04/03/12-people-rescued-near-killaloe-bridge/

"plucked from the freezing waters" - lol

The actual facts:
Boat hit a rock and damaged the gearbox, so we couldn't accelerate
Boat was NOT taking on water as claimed, we had a bailer working on it as well
I was one of the two lads who were "plucked from the freezing waters" - in actual fact we all got out of the boat to try and push it in to shore, the water was barely up to our knees, and I got my foot caught under a rock, one of the lads stayed behind to help me and the boat drifted too far out into the lake for us, we didn't want to get wet so we just sat on the river bank and waited for the coast guard
The coast guard took almost an hour to arrive and the gards drove past and offered us a lift back to the gaff
There was a girl on the boat as well
We had hardly any drink and the skipper hadn't had any

But yeah, "dramatic rescue" "boating disaster" "lives were nearly lost" etc