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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoo! Here we go, folks! Break out the
rappelling kits for everyone
(Hah. Betcha all thought it was gonna be champagne.)
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I prefer a real harness and an eight descender. Remember the gloves!
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)with the harness just jerry-rigged out of rope. And I didn't like it.
Fortunately, nobody was shooting at us on the one occasion I had to do that.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Car skidded off the road into a canyon.
I could not see more than ten feet due to the water volume, punctuated by lightning strikes.
When I reached out patients, they were dead. I called off the body recovery...until the damn storm passed. It was plain too dangerous. No, the coroner was not too happy, until they got on scene.
As I put it, it's good to be young, dumb and invisible. Never asked my kids to do what I wasn't willing to do.
I got over the young and invisible part...
Happy new year, hopping I get a pretty quiet one, though turning on the scanner in a little while.