Happy Independence Day
July 4, 2009
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Juliane Koepcke is a living miracle
Read this and wonder how she survived the plane crash…
It was Christmas Eve, 1971, when Koepcke, then aged 17, and her mother boarded a Lockheed Electra turboprop for a flight from Lima, Peru, to Pucallpa in the Amazonian rainforest. Her parents, both famous zoologists, ran a research station in the jungle studying wildlife.
The flight was supposed to last for less than an hour and for the first 25 minutes everything was fine, Koepcke recalled.
“Then we flew into heavy clouds and the plane started shaking. My mother was very nervous. Then to the right we saw a bright flash and the plane went into a nose dive. My mother said, ‘This is it!’”
“We were headed straight down. Christmas presents were flying around the cabin and I could hear people screaming.”
As the plane broke into pieces in midair, Koepcke was thrust out into the open air:
“Suddenly there was this amazing silence. The plane was gone. I must have been unconscious and then came to in midair. I was flying, spinning through the air and I could see the forest spinning beneath me.”
Then Koepcke lost consciousness again. She fell more than three kilometers (two miles) into the jungle canopy but miraculously survived with only minor injuries. Ninety-one other people aboard Flight 508 died.
After 10 days, starved and exhausted, Koepke finally came upon a small boat and a hut on the river. She stayed there, hoping to be rescued. The next day a group of Peruvian lumberjacks found her and brought her to the next town.
Read the article of how she made it thru the jungle for 10 days to a river and rescue.
July 3, 2009
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Another senior doing what they like
Katie Watson is still hunting the land she grew up on and hopes to be doing more of the same when she turns 94 in September.
Her most recent addition was a 19-pound turkey she got about a half mile from her home near Richfield in Stanly County while hunting with her grand-nephew, Kevin Barringer, on opening day of the spring turkey season.
Barringer helped Watson to her blind and put decoys out. He was 200 yards away in his own pop-up blind.
Watson used her call, and about five minutes later the gobbler showed up. One shot with her 12 gauge Browning automatic, and it was hers.
source: 93 years old and still hunting: Katie Watson bags gobbler on opening day
June 30, 2009
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this heat is killing me
We have had August temperatures for all of June with high humidity and no rain…
The official NWS station in Victiora TX recorded only .01 of rain for June…
With my emphysema it is hard to breath when I go outside…
June 30, 2009
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Rachel and her Mercury Comet Chariot
This is an unusual love story involving an 89-year-old woman and her beloved Chariot. The two have been together for decades and traveled more than 540,000 miles across this nation’s highways and side streets.
I was impressed by her knowledge of her car and the way she has taken care of with records to show each and every part replacement.
Is Rachel Veitch still going strong at nearly 91? Is her beloved “Chariot” still going strong at well over half-a-million miles?
Source
Why Rachel carries a gun? Is Chariot OK? What does she love most about America? Here are the answers.
June 28, 2009
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