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Massive Avalanche Takes Out French Ski Lift -- With Skiers On It
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Posted on 03/05/2012 2:55:38 PM PST by nuconvert

No one was reported hurt, so you can relax and watch these crazy videos of a ginormous, late-afternoon, wet avalanche at St. Francois-Longchamps, France, in the Savoie, destroying a quad chairlift. Some 70 people were on the lift and, incredibly, not one was injured and all were evacuated within two and a half hours.

(Excerpt) Read more at grindtv.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Sports
KEYWORDS: avalanche; chairlift; france; skiing
2 videos at link above
1 posted on 03/05/2012 2:55:47 PM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Were they all French?


2 posted on 03/05/2012 3:00:11 PM PST by Blado (Obama's brain is a coprolite from the Late Soviet Era)
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To: Blado

Je ne c’est pas


3 posted on 03/05/2012 3:02:50 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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my french is pretty rusty....maybe that should be sais. - doesn’t look right


4 posted on 03/05/2012 3:04:34 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

“sais”


5 posted on 03/05/2012 3:06:51 PM PST by Rio
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To: nuconvert

Quel dommage!

I can’t believe I wasted a whole year in French Class.

Jeez, I could have been doing something useful like watching Oprah or The View.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!


6 posted on 03/05/2012 3:15:53 PM PST by Blado (Obama's brain is a coprolite from the Late Soviet Era)
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To: Rio

merci


7 posted on 03/05/2012 3:17:06 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

It only took so long to rescue them because they all repeatedly kept surrendering to it.


8 posted on 03/05/2012 7:07:07 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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