CHOCOLATE CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE!!!
A cloudy and drizzly Monday, prepped for a snoozy afternoon. All of a sudden the hospital is filled with activity. Ordinary clothes covered with white vests boasting important titles, cots pushed into the PT gym, a hose-down tent popped up outside. “Triage mode” they called it, and not a drill. A small plane had just crashed into a house downtown, about 3 blocks from the hospital. It was burning perilously close to a propane tank, perilously close to neighbors on all sides. We prepared and then waited for the worst: a pilot, passengers, residents, passer-bys, or any of the 3000 cruiseship tourists ambling through town could soon be hustled through the door with varying injuries. But no one came.
The pilot, although unintentionally, did a great job of losing control in a very tidy way, burying the plane in the basement of only one house rather than taking out a whole close-knit neighborhood. The emergency response teams also did a a great job, keeping the fire tidy, thereby preventing huge explosions and trouble. But, the skies hadn’t been as kind, the plane as indestructible, the seatbelts sufficiently protective—everyone in the plane (which had started in a perhaps sunnier Victoria BC) died: a pilot, his fiance, and two daughters aged 9 and 14.
But the resident of the house? She had just left 15 minutes before and was enjoying a chocolate milkshake one block away at Lane 7 Diner. Her cats somehow also intuitively sensed danger and had vacated the scene. It’s true. Chocolate saves lives. Don’t resist.
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Tags: Alaska, Sitka, US of A
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