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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jan 19, 2017 - 07:43am PT
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ditto... looks horrendous... that's just the top of a 3-story hotel poking through the debris.
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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Jan 19, 2017 - 08:54am PT
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Ouch. such a beautiful country and hit by the moving earth again.
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Beatrix Kiddo
Mountain climber
ColoRADo
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Jan 19, 2017 - 09:52am PT
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Angelo is in Abruzzo. Anyone hear from him?
Edit:
He's ok.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 20, 2017 - 09:38am PT
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I have not been impressed with the Italians' response. First there was NO RESPONSE for about
THREE HOURS. Then they sent scores of rescue vehicles up the road behind a Tonka Toy
snow blower that appeared to quit so they had a half mile long queue of vehicles stuck
in single file. And they couldn't muster any choppers bigger than A-Stars to take personnel
and equipment up there?
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stefano607518
Trad climber
italy/austria/switzerland
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Jan 23, 2017 - 12:25am PT
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this event have a return time of approx 150 years as per size of the trees in the bow....
so actually it is a very uncommon situation. the problem is that down there snow is normal but so much is an exceptional event.... with some organizatorial cons.
flying up in the heavy stom was not doable (night time btw)
only way by ski...high avalanche danger as the approach is exposed...
or trying to open the street by plowing... which takes time
so the delay.
altought i seriously doubt a 15min response time will have saved the poor which where buried under 3m of heavy snow...
the luky ones have been "merely" trapped in their rooms or so.
the response to my knowledge (compare it with Austria/galtur accident) was in line with the doable.
cheers
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Jan 23, 2017 - 12:30am PT
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After the l'Aquila quake in 2009, Italian professional cyclist, Danilo Di Luca, who is from the Abruzzo started a campaign to sell pink bracelets(pink for the Giro d'Italia's magila rosa or pink jersey as opposed to Lance Armstrong's yellow bracelet for the maillot jaune or yellow jersey of the Tour de France). The funds were targeted for the earthquake victims. I have one around here somewhere.
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Hoser
climber
Vancouver,Rome
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Jan 24, 2017 - 06:37am PT
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I have not been impressed with the Italians' response.
Ever been to Italy?
Some of these places are pretty far away...with some pretty limited access points
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Adamame
climber
Santa Cruz
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Jan 24, 2017 - 09:45pm PT
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I been talking to with Angelo who is Abruzzo now. His brother is on The Abruzzo SAR team and was sent in to help. It was a grim andpreventable tragedy that is due to corruption in the Italian government. First of all big money got it built where it shouldn't have... so there could be a view of the sea. Second, they knew an avalanche was imminent a day before and the people wanted to escape but the corrupt politicians wouldn't buy or maybe pocketed the money for new turbine plows which would have helped. They were trapped knowing it was going to happen. So awful. The avalanche moved the hotel 12 meters off its foundation. Mind blowing. Angelo's village is ok so far.
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