Posted on 01/29/2006 2:59:03 PM PST by Anne_Conn
..."We are experiencing a national tragedy in Poland right now," my new friend, the courageous and talented Polish journalist David M. Dastych wrote in an email this morning.
For 500 people inside an exhibition hall in the Polish city of Katowice, the very worst had happened: the roof collapsed in on them.
As Dastych reported, rescue attempts to save trapped souls were frantic and fraught with the dangers of sub-zero temperatures in one of the worst winters ever for Poland. In this frigid scene, at least 66 people were killed and another 160 injured, some of them critically.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Poor souls! Poland has been our steadfast friend for many years. Are we making any offers of assistance in this disaster?
I can't help remembering the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome (the best named building in Minnesota since it's held up with hot air.) They presumed said hot air would melt any snow so didn't plan for its removal. Alas like the rest of liberal hot air this promised much and delivered little. Snow downed the dome in the first couple winters. After repairing and reinflating it they promised to remove future snow via cranes, no doubt with union labor. Come the next big snow they removed it too quickly, the dome rebounded into the cranes, ripped and collapsed again. A perfect icon of liberalism.
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