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Monday, March 28, 2016

oessa: 19.9216713,99.0405333

oessa:

19.9216713,99.0405333

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Sunday, March 27, 2016

thats-the-way-it-was: World Trade Center, New York...

thats-the-way-it-was:

World Trade Center, New York City

September 11, 2001

Photo: David Surowiecki

This shit was live on television.
Every generation has their moment that they never forget. Can I trade this one in for one where I don’t see people jumping out of buildings to their death? Is that possible?

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Saturday, March 26, 2016

sweetpeche :reblog for easter

Friday, March 25, 2016

"Lonely, long, absurd walk home."

“Lonely, long, absurd walk home.”

- Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries Of Franz Kafka: 1910 - 1923
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Writing for money.

Suddenly, I couldn’t remember how to write the letter “N”.
So far, life is proving more difficult than initially thought.

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"In the end, we’ll all become stories."

“In the end, we’ll all become stories.”

- Margaret Atwood
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Neither gay nor Jewish. Not that I’m opposed to being...

Neither gay nor Jewish. Not that I’m opposed to being either, I’m just not … and yet, the saga continues.

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velmatv: Nick Lowe - ‘So It Goes’ - 1978 And so it goes and...

velmatv:

Nick Lowe - ‘So It Goes’ - 1978

And so it goes and so it goes
And so it goes and so it goes
But where it’s goin’ no one knows.

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

from-around-the-globe: Hyatt Recency Kansas City Walkway...

from-around-the-globe:

Hyatt Recency Kansas City Walkway Disaster

On July 17, 1981 two vertically contiguous walkways collapsed onto a tea dance being held in the hotel’s lobby. The falling walkways killed 114 and injured 216. At the time, it was the deadliest structural collapse in U.S. history, not surpassed until the collapse of the south tower of the World Trade Center in 2001.

The rescue operation lasted 14 hours and was performed by many emergency personnel, including crews from 34 fire trucks and EMS units and doctors from five local hospitals. Trapped survivors were buried beneath more than 60 tons of steel, concrete and glass, which neither the Hyatt’s forklifts nor the fire department’s most powerful jacks could budge.

Dr. Joseph Waeckerle, former chief of Kansas City’s emergency medical system, directed the rescue effort establishing a makeshift morgue in a ground floor exhibition area, using the hotel’s driveway and front lawn as a triage area and helping to organize the wounded by greatest need for medical care. Those people who could walk were instructed to leave the hotel to simplify the rescue effort; those mortally injured were told they were going to die and given morphine. Often, rescuers had to dismember bodies in order to reach survivors among the wreckage. One victim’s right leg was trapped under an I-beam and had to be amputated by a surgeon, a task which was completed with a chainsaw

Several rescuers suffered considerable stress due to their experience, and later relied upon each other in an informal support group. Jackhammer operator “Country” Bill Allman took his own life due to the stress.

And… It was 100% avoidable. Had it been built as drawn, this wouldn’t have happened.

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