Posted on 10/09/2007 8:54:27 AM PDT by CedarDave
***Now you’ve done it. Folks from all over will be asking what a swamp cooler is.***
It just shows there not from God’s Country! And I wish I was there now!
Yes, when you fall out of the sky you tend to get hurt.
In the only balloon fatality that I personally witnessed, that's how the guy died. However, the cause of the fatality wasn't the impact, but the fact that the top panel on the balloon failed, causing it to deflate while in flight.
But the bottom line is that the raw numbers are meaningless. The relevant statistics would be per passenger mile, or per passenger trip. And you would have to sort out the trips to the mall from other trips for the numbers to be relevant to the claim made in post 7 to me.
Indeed, I wonder. You live in an area where you could replace the cellulose in the pads with ponderosa/pinon pine shavings, if you have one at all.
Answered my own question. Didn’t read far enough.
Updated at 10:20am -- 3 Hurt in 3rd Rio Rancho Balloon Mishap
Geez!
Let’s see 5 injured and one killed in hot air balloons, meanwhile down at the Cottonwood Mall everyone seems to be safe and accounted for.
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