Posted on 08/19/2017 9:42:06 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
BARCELONA - An Emmaus woman vacationing in Barcelona, Spain this week says she is lucky to be alive after Thursday's attack.
In less than a week, the vacation of Cathy Fiorillo's dreams, turned into a nightmare.
"I've never felt this feeling before. It was beyond fear…even though this happened in a millisecond...I felt like it was slowed down and in slow motion," she says.
Cathy, a theatre and speech professor at Penn State Schuylkill, landed in Barcelona Saturday, with her boyfriend Dr. Joe Purcell, from Morristown, N.J. That first night, they visited the popular boulevard known as Las Ramblas and over the next several days proceeded to have the trip of their lives.
Joe suggested they go back to Las Ramblas after a boat ride Thursday night, but Cathy's foot was hurting, so instead, they went to a cafe closer to their hotel, just two blocks away.
Then, as they were finishing dinner, it happened.
"All the sudden, this herd of people started running toward us, saying 'gun, gun'...and I heard a gunshot, just like three times 'boom, boom, boom'," she remembers.
Cathy says they ran, with the masses, and ducked into a store, where the owner pulled down a large metal gate, and a group of strangers huddled together inside.
"We were being attacked by terrorists, and we knew it. We knew it," she tells us.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfmz.com ...
I guess this has to be Pennsylvania. That other Emmaus is in Israel proper.
‘A Conservative is a Liberal Who Has Been Mugged by Reality.’ ~ Irving Kristol
Needs an update!
‘A Conservative is a Liberal Who Has Been the Victim of a Terrorist Attack.’ ~ Diana in Wisconsin
We shall see. ;)
“‘A Conservative is a Liberal Who Has Been the Victim of a Terrorist Attack.’ ~ Diana in Wisconsin”
You’re being optimistic.
If she’s infected with the mental illnesses called leftism she’ll end up believing she deserved it.
Not too far from me. It’s a liberal little enclave. I think Wolf Blitzer has family there.
I know OF the goofy broad. Home of Yuengling beer about 10 mi.s up the road.
“If she’s infected with the mental illnesses called leftism she’ll end up believing she deserved it”
And ask if she can have another.
Maybe the trip home will really put her on the road to Emmaus
“Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
I’ve walked up and down the Ramblas several times...I was there again just last Oct...
I recognized the stores in the videos...
My Dad lives in Emmaus.
Would be interested to know what her politics are!
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