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Slide: survivors.

A2- The Terrace Standard, ede Septonibr 8, 2004

grateful for aid |

Just ‘moments: after Wik.
~liams was freed fromthe _
Slide, strapped. into a -bas~":
ket stretcher and: pulled ta.”
_ Safety, ‘the: mountainside 2

- let loose again.

“I. would,“haye® been =:
~ buried.’ I would. have. been =

“gone for sure.”
ge _| a a

Hours” before; he ‘and =

Allen. Jones, .70,.had- dri
ven to: Bell- Il:

‘liams*”

~ wark.one day. éatly..-

_ “We were just-20 iniles..
“We -
- game around a corner’and
> we couldn't see: anything,..~

froni hame,”” he said.

it was! raining cthat’-hard.
. Everything» “was”
black? *.

That's ‘when they: ‘hit, the. ©
‘edge’ of. the: slide. Williams

~~. got out to: push the car:

came. down: and: ‘it “just
swept: me. away.”

a He ‘became’ wedged un *
~ der: “a

- At first‘his ‘head Was. under ae
the water and. mud,., but”
"... Somehow, ‘he’: :managed | to“

"get. his “nose”. and” eyes.
above’ the surface. °

Up to his-neck in VA cone.” :

“crete: like mixture: Of. mud,

Tog. °

Tt feels’ ‘like * you ‘re “ee.

; cased, in 2 “tomb.” ue

that’ § “the @ dase
chainsaw; oe ‘me ‘oul OF

34.km
north,’ ‘of Terrace on High-
way 37 —.to: pick-up. Wil: |
girlfriend, - Jenny”
- Parnell, wha?d. gotten, off .

pitch:

‘members feeling calm.
~“P'figured this: was -it,
here’: 5.19 sense of. fight.”

cing it. because’ 1 can't gel

out of here. Poe
Suddenly,’ “out, of: ‘the

darkness and the-lashing | ~ —
wept, away: by a caséad/ .

rain, heesaw ‘People, com-.

; ing ‘towards. him; -
“He. heard: someone. say, ca

then get” a

-else until he. regained’ Full
“ consciaushess. later: on* in!
“ hospital -and “learned” his :
‘companions
~ alive,

nA: few: “of. “the missing

. pieces: have. been: filled: in
“by reading: néwispaper : ‘ace,
. counts of His: rescue.

‘He ; believes. if” the’: iwo-

Americans’. hadn't” ‘found
~|. shim, ‘he’ doesn't think res-

“AIT cof: a’: sudden: L
looked up and’ T-heard the:
“roar. and I just . said. ‘Runt? *
The.-dam: burst: ‘and. she.

cue. crews : “would” have |

. been’ ‘able: to locate’ him...

“They: ‘wouldn't: have:
seen me. With- the : ‘roar of.

“the wind‘ and the:rain; they.
we wouldn’ t: have heard. me.” :
-He ‘still -can’i. quite: be °
ad lieve: what: happened: - :

= But: he’s. ‘prate fill’ ~ tO.
everyone. who : ‘helped’ -

“saved: his: life. particularly.”
the: hunters, who. feached
os pita first.

“Alle Jones, 10; ‘doesn't

. o semeinber ‘much. ‘about. the’.
--pocks, and” ‘debris, Wil:
. Hams grabbed : hold of a

accident — - just. that the car.

-was on top of the slide be-* a

: fore anyone. saw it.
“Like the: ‘others, ine: got. 7
~ out. of the. vehicle. and was

“were: “still

*

TERRACE TRIO’ s car after the mudslide hit aan :

* ing wall of mud. 5° ~:

‘watch. -and..my.. glasses
‘did my. ‘pants! But-they got

escuers : also“

teirieved
moriey, clip. : .

to. safety.

ose and ears,"
And: ‘like Williams,

“ “and. bruises:

. He" Il: ‘be: on the: mend.

“For ‘some time, but: counts

himself. lucky. to. have. been

“T-lost my. ‘shoes and 1 my:

lieve: I:

-them' back."!: One. of his

“He: said: young. people
“helped. him out I of the. mid:

“were digging - ‘mud: out of.
“my -mouth and out ‘of - my os

“terrier cross,

- suffered: ‘terrible: scrapes”

saved by’, ‘guick- acting’ mF
~ strangers. — “whoever: they mie

were

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“EM It's.a. ‘gift of God; Y ‘bee.
don't know what -:
“else it'could-have been. It’
"was just ‘plain: luck: ‘that:
“they “came zalong: when -
othey. did. a
The. accident’: lefe: Par
sonell ‘shaken. She: will. be
os Mn-the embulance, they off, work for. as long asa -
-mionth, : a
Jones’: ‘Ss - “pet: Shih Thu
Trouble, was ..|"-".
“also lucky. She'd been in. |”

the car when'the slide hit, -
but. she, stayed ‘there, safe
and ‘sound, .until’ she- was .
“found by clean up, crews: “

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