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Breaking: AmTrak Train Passengers Calling CNN for Help
CNN | 7-22-07

Posted on 07/21/2007 2:36:37 PM PDT by Global2010

CNN Just interview a passenger who has been on a stranded Amtrak since 9:30 a.m.

More calls are coming in from passengers on the train.

Seems this lady wants off and Amtrak is saying to the passengers they don't know when that will happen.

Rumors are the tracks are washed out at both ends.

Food, water, air, toilets still in good shape.

Just seems to be very frustrated passengers due to lack on info.

So they wanted to reach a live national news show to let them know they are stuck.

The Anchor on CNN said well sounds like they are not in danger or lacking food/toilet so you can't say anything negative about Amtrak.

The other anchor said maybe we should send them all copies of Harry Potter to keep them occupied (sarcastically speaking).


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: amtrak; flood; texas
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To: Global2010

I was in D’Hanis about two hours ago. The train track is indeed washed out and was being worked on. It won’t be a quick fix however. Don’t know why those people are still on the train. Hwy 90 is open so they should have been bused out or the train should have been able to back up. The track behind them is not washed out to my knowledge.


101 posted on 07/21/2007 7:07:02 PM PDT by Texan
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To: DainBramage

LOLOLOLOLOL


102 posted on 07/21/2007 7:12:13 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ( "...but you can't fool all of the people all the time." LINCOLN)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

:O ) My feelings exactly when a tsunami warning is issued.
A serious one that is.


103 posted on 07/21/2007 7:16:59 PM PDT by Global2010
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To: bannie

LOL That was cute.


104 posted on 07/21/2007 7:18:03 PM PDT by Global2010
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To: operation clinton cleanup
Where is the President! Has FEMA been mobilized?

And where is the looter guy?


105 posted on 07/21/2007 7:19:16 PM PDT by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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To: John123
Pardon me George, I gots a train to gets to


106 posted on 07/21/2007 7:24:41 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Texan

Thanks for that on the scene info.


107 posted on 07/21/2007 7:25:53 PM PDT by Global2010
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To: CHEE

I live a little further southeast than you, and we have had about 60 inches of rain this year so far. We normally have about 36 inches annually.

Killeen (the eastern border of Fort Hood) had 18 inches in a 24 hour period earlier in the summer.


108 posted on 07/21/2007 7:39:39 PM PDT by Tex Pete
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To: 2Jedismom

Oh, I forgot! I thought y’all were gonna take the train into Austin, but you decided to drive!


109 posted on 07/21/2007 7:53:03 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Conservative Warrior 2007
Yeah, maybe they should hastily mobilize a dangerous rescue operation in foul weather when everyone is safe.

Standed 7 whole hours? Sheez! - OMG, call out the guard!


110 posted on 07/21/2007 8:22:37 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Tex Pete

I feel for Mills county and all that area. You folk have had it tough. I pray you and yours are safe and sound.


111 posted on 07/21/2007 8:23:27 PM PDT by CHEE (Shoot low, they're crawling.)
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To: Global2010
That's got to be pretty scary. I hope they will all be safe! At least they didn't plunge into the creek.
112 posted on 07/21/2007 8:30:16 PM PDT by sokit2mebb (PEACE ON EARTH WILL ONLY COME AFTER JESUS RETURNS!)
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To: Global2010

They’re calling CNN? Hmmmmmmmm


113 posted on 07/21/2007 8:31:23 PM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: Global2010
Have you heard any more about the train? We’ve been having a bad storm and it knocked out my satellite system, so I can’t get any news except for here.
114 posted on 07/21/2007 8:31:58 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (THE TREE OF LIBERTY NEEDS TO BE WATERED FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THE BLOOD OF TYRANTS!!!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
"and what are the circumstances that caused the train to be stuck "

I've been on Amtrak trains when heavy rains have caused problems with the track switches and light signals. They've had to stop for long periods to check the tracks and under the cars, or stop until the signals/switches are once again in working order.

115 posted on 07/21/2007 8:35:14 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: Global2010
Is Amtrak run by the Govt?

Close. It is funded by the Government.
It would never exist without that.
No economic reason for it, despite the best efforts of the liberals to keep every form of mass transit this side of angel wings, and it is, financially speaking, a disgrace.

116 posted on 07/21/2007 8:42:19 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: bill1952
Just to add, the funding is over a billion per year. - your taxes at work.
117 posted on 07/21/2007 8:44:13 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: deport

Thanks for the pix and story.

;o)


118 posted on 07/21/2007 9:26:35 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: DainBramage
CALLER: No, no... we just want off..help us. we watch you in all the airports !!

Well, you reap what you sow. Even in the airports I avoid the Clinton News Network -- if at all possible.

119 posted on 07/21/2007 10:20:27 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: potlatch

I know full well that you’ve had a lot of rain...all over the state!

I recently spent 2 days in Dallas trying to fly out because of the bad weather.


120 posted on 07/21/2007 11:47:17 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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