Empty Nest: WHAT!!!!!!!

I'm so darn tired right now I could scream...I woke up last night about 2:20 am...couldn't get back to sleep so I turned on the TV.. I wanted to see if they had found the miners. CNN..and Anderson Cooper was on live. ????...Across the bottom of the screen is the announcement that 12 are alive and I went berserk. I mean, you pray for a miracle, because that is what they said they would need last night, and wake up and low and behold.........Gosh did I cry. They were talking about how they guys were going to be, what the symptoms would be etc and Anderson and Gupta and some Dr. Long from the local hospital were taking about what they might see when they bring in the workers.....I had snuggled back down when some woman came busting into the interview between them saying "It's not true"....WHAT THE HELL.....She never said they were all dead, she just said they weren't all alive. She had come down to the site to celebrate with everyone,she woke her kids up to come and celebrate the miracle. She was in the church when they made the announcement about "mis communications". Her description of the reaction in that church was awful. OMG I cried, like a baby. How could they let this happen. I don't know this for sure, but don't you think that by the time the "supposed" good news came out a lot of them (family members) had started imagining that the news would be nothing but bad? After all that time, don't you imagine that they were preparing for the worst? and then.....to be told their men are all alive. The joy....I mean I know what I felt when I saw that and I don't know any of these people. and then 3 hrs later to hear those words "mis communication"....Supposedly they "coal company big-wigs" knew 15-20 minutes after the celebrating began that they didn't have 12 survivors..and they kept their mouths shut for about 3 hours while these people celebrated for hours. They governor had come..he was there and he didn't correct it..So very much is wrong with what went on at that mine in the past few days, but last night.......................no words to describe it. My prayers are with the families now, for they will need them. The pictures I saw of those families as they proceeded home are indescribably sad and lost...and I only got about 15 more minutes sleep..

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It broke my heart too. I had a similar thing happen to me. One minute you think all will be fine and the next the unreal has happened. I'm praying for all those families.

Posted by: Account Deleted | 01/04/2006 at 02:39 PM