Well, one hour more of faith certainly wasn't the answer God sent.
"Just Another Hour...We Can't Give Up Hope" (click title to entry - thank you)
Reported by: Elizabeth Schubert
Email: eschubert@13wham.com
Last Update: 4/07 10:36 am
(4/07/10, 10:35 am) - It was rainy that day. I remember because I was still a one-man band reporter in West Virginia, and I was trying to shoot video and find people to interview all while holding an umbrella. It wasn’t working too well.
January 3, 2006. At roughly 6:30 am the day before, January 2, an explosion rocked the Sago Mine in Tallsmanville, WV. Thirteen miners were trapped. The families were holed up in a small, white church, waiting desperately for news about their loved ones trapped hundreds of feet below.
The place was a media circus. Live trucks were lined up along the narrow road that led to the mine. Correspondents and producers from CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS chatted away on cell phones, doing an occasional live shot.
I had an intern with me that day, named Rachel Stockman. She nudged me. “Don’t freak out,” she said. “But Anderson Cooper is about ten feet away from us.” I think we broke into nervous giggles....
Very, very stern action. ONLY after the fact, though.
April 7, 2010
Manchin vows 'very, very stern action' (click here)
Gov. Joe Manchin on Wednesday promised swift and harsh action if investigators find that violations by Massey Energy caused the mine explosion that killed at least 25 workers and has raised new questions about the coal industry's safety practices.
By Ken Ward Jr.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gov. Joe Manchin on Wednesday promised swift and harsh action if investigators find that violations by Massey Energy caused the mine explosion that killed at least 25 workers and has raised new questions about the coal industry's safety practices.
"We'll be very, very stern to act if we find something that could have been done or should have been done," Manchin told reporters during an afternoon briefing.
The governor's response was in stark contrast to earlier in the week, when he dodged questions about Massey's safety record and evidence of growing safety problems at the Upper Big Branch Mine prior to Monday's explosion.
"I'm not comfortable any time there's an accident, no matter who it is," Manchin had said on Tuesday....
Why is it the peasants to the Plutocrats are always the 'LAST' thought a company has? Except. Perhaps for their life insurance policies that benefits the companies. Is that how the Plutocrats plan to pay for the rescue efforts? Chilling to think that accidents and deaths affiliated with those accidents might actually benefit Massey. I hope that is not the case.
