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No Way Out By Charles Mills
The waters continued to rise. Alice Hall looked desperately around the confines of her slowly sinking car. No flashlight. No phone.
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lice Hall of Bar Harbor, Maine, was driving home from work and decided to take a shortcut along the shore. She forgot just how quickly tides can rush in, and she suddenly found herself stalled in deep saltwater with ever-rising ocean waves pounding against her doors. She was stuck. There was no way out. *** Walter Koester looked up just in time to see tons of earth falling straight at him. His dad, working nearby snatched the only thing he could find—a garden hose—and threw it into the rapidly filling pit they had been digging. Just as his son grabbed it, the landslide completely buried the boy under eight feet of earth. Walter jammed the end of the hose into his mouth and tried to take a breath of air. One problem. The garden hose was full of water. Walter was in big trouble. There was no way out. *** Frank Brown, an X-ray technician working at Bellevue Hospital in New York City instructed his patient to lie still on the table. A nurse in attendance, Grace Fusco, watched Frank switch off the machine so he could make some minor adjustments. However, there must have been a short somewhere in the wiring. X-ray expert Brown suddenly found his hand closing a circuit with 75,000 volts of electricity. He couldn't speak or move. The nurse ran to the technician and grabbed his shoulders.
