Author Topic: 41 Chile troops missing in 'snow tsunami' feared dead (Read 230 times)

DREDIOCK · « **on:** May 20, 2005, 06:53:03 PM »

I dont get it.
What the hell kind of Army do they have.
If this pic is accurate to the area, they had everything they needed to survive

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-05-20-chile-soldiers_x.htm

JB73 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:09:50 PM »

i have to ask

W T F is a "snow tsunami" ?!??!?!

Halo · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:27:46 PM »

Maybe they couldn't spell avalaunch.

Chairboy · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:28:40 PM »

Is it a fancy name for avalanche? If so, we have those here too. I don't imagine the word 'avalanche' grabs peoples fancy quite as much as 'tsunami' following what happened at Christmas.

Kinda like how after 9/11/01, every criminal was labelled a terrorist. I even remember reading an article about some politician calling vandals 'terrorists' because they tagged neighborhoods, or something equally asinine.

Want to get your bill passed? Say it fights terrorism. Wanna get your byline published by the AP? Refer to an avalanche or blizzard as a 'snow tsunami'.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #4 on:** May 20, 2005, 07:29:28 PM »

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Originally posted by JB73
i have to ask

W T F is a "snow tsunami" ?!??!?!

In the article thats how the senior militay commander discribed it.

It was the biggest storm that hit that area in a decade.

Still if they used just a bit of common sence like NOT trying to march through a blizzard and had some basic survival skills none of them had to die.

SkyLab · « **Reply #5 on:** May 20, 2005, 09:11:08 PM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK

Still if they used just a bit of common sence like NOT trying to march through a blizzard and had some basic survival skills none of them had to die.

Exacly right. Hunker down, the storm will pass.

What was the rush?
I have to assume they had food, sleeping bags and tents.

If not.....well that would be asking for trouble.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2005, 01:08:46 AM »

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Originally posted by SkyLab
Exacly right. Hunker down, the storm will pass.

What was the rush?
I have to assume they had food, sleeping bags and tents.

If not.....well that would be asking for trouble.

The tents would have been a plus but not a must.

Look at the trees in the background of the pic.
Exellent shelter beneith their boughs.

bunch · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2005, 02:03:24 AM »

WW1 ace & Sikorsky test pilot Igor Segievsky was in a Chilean Tsunami once, but it was the regular water kind