The outside world slapped me in the face today. It yanked me out of my pit of self-pity and gave me a damn good shaking.
My sorrow was re-directed to the 34 people who burned to death while trapped below deck with no escape hatch when the boat they were on was engulfed in flames off the southern coast of California.
They could be heard screaming and banging on the locked door as the inferno consumed them in a hideously painful death. It didn’t help that all five crew members jumped overboard to save themselves, leaving the passengers to their doom.
The ‘dive boat’ The Conception was on a three-day scuba diving trip when it caught fire while anchored off Santa Cruz Island overnight Monday. The passengers were sleeping in tight quarters below deck when they were trapped by the blaze, the Daily Mail reported. The five crew members had separate sleeping quarters and escaped the inferno in a dinghy.
A hellish incident like that puts things in perspective for an aging man lamenting his loneliness in a bungalow in the mid-Hudson valley.
Dramatic footage from chopper cam
Photos: Daily Mail
I was just getting to know this man in Australia. LWBUT (Love will bring us together) and He disappeared! Could it have been the Fires? He was on Word Press, And then He was gone! Those crew men were a bunch of cowards, I worked on boats for many years, and I would have gone to my Death to save my passengers!
Yeah, I read about the fires down there.
As for the boat fire, damn right, fucking cowards, and yet nothing happens.
Bill, George Here, What-ever happened to courage in the face of danger? Save your own sorry ass, and forget about those “Other’s”……Brother, my neighbor, who recently lost her Husband, just brought me over two bowls of Soup, to tide me over, we just got 3 inches of new snow! There ain’t nothing here but Good, Good, Neighbor’s who have helped me to want to keep my old heart still Beating! So I can still do some good in this Life-time!
May the Beat go on………….