Posted on 01/13/2019 9:41:41 AM PST by BenLurkin
Full Headline: "French ski resort workers are killed in an explosion while trying to clear an avalanche and three skiers die in the Austrian alps as the worst snowfall in 30 years continues to batter Europe"
Two employees at a ski resort in the French Alps died today when the avalanche-control charges they were trying to set accidentally went off.
Three German skiers were also killed in an avalanche in the Austrian Alps - and a fourth is missing, as the worst snowfall in 30 years continues to batter Europe.
The pair of French workers were carrying out a controlled explosion when then accident took place at an altitude of 6,000ft (1,800 metres) at the Morillon ski resort in France 'were working on an avalanche prevention programme', mountain rescue experts said.
Controlled explosions are carried out before the slopes open to mitigate the risk of larger avalanches. They were working with the explosives when the accident happened, local police said following an initial investigation.
Forecasters at Meteo France had warned of a high risk of avalanches in the Savoie and Haute-Savoie regions following fresh overnight snowfall, as police said today as snowfall set in again in the northern Alps.
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Damn Global Warming.
You would think that the first thing you would learn when training for this line of work is proper safety procedures, and how to avoid premature and accidental explosions.
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Agreed. Modern explosives are extremely stable, and so are igniters and detonators. If they were using electrical detonators (caps), I wonder if high-altitude static discharge might have been the culprit? Were shorting plugs removed prematurely?
“First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin...”
Oh, that’s terrible. I’m very sorry for their families and friends.
Memento mori.
Evidently the initial procedures went fine,
but it was all downhill from there.
They should use a howitzer for avalanche control. That’s what Alaska uses.
This can't be true.
Al Gorebull warming told us there would be no more snow shortly after the first decade of this century.
Sorry about the death of those working to clear the record snowfall.
Algore will say the Global Warming is on the other side of the Globe.
Even the european weather is trying to get rid of the muslim infection.
The people there, in direct contrast, want the infection to flourish and murder them.
“The pair of French workers were carrying out a controlled explosion“
Apparently it wasn’t as controlled as it could have been.
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