Chilean Miners

I just watched the 16th miner's rescue and his reunion with his mother. I definitely cried! I echo Scarlett's prayer.

 

Been watching on and off ,as I have been going to and fro, while running in and out on errands!

Thank God for this rescue.

 

I watched the first one come out last night. His wife and small boy were there, pretty incredible.

 

I thought it was interesting that they were debating down there about who would be last to go up........they all wanted to be last.......Amusing.

Cheers,

Jim

 

I am assuming it is, and hopefully so because of their concern and love for their friends welfare. Not to be in some kind of record book.

 

I'm sure there will be a long line of lawyers tomorrow if they are not already there

 

Are they being paid straight time or OT for their time underground?

 

...
By sad contrast, Obama stayed far away from the Gulf during the BP spill, as if to deny it, and made only a few brief appearances later.
Sadder still is what happens in China, where miners are routinely left for dead after mines collapse — a big reason more than 2,000 parish in such accidents each year.
"Lucky people who were born in Chile. ... If it was us, we would definitely have been buried alive and died," a Chinese wrote on the Internet, as quoted by the Christian Science Monitor.
Pinera is different. He focused on avoiding conflict and laying blame while the rescue was still on. He took accountability himself by firing incompetent inspectors on his own side, but didn't condemn business or shut down an entire industry, as Obama did with his Gulf moratorium, only now being lifted.
Pinera worked with local officials instead of bickering with them or throwing up bureaucratic obstacles because they belonged to the wrong party. Sadly, that's what Obama did with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who had to take matters into his own hands in building berms when Louisiana's coast was threatened by the April spill.
Chileans, by contrast, said the crisis united them as never before. That takes leadership, and it comes about only because Pinera believes in openness, free markets, transparency and putting himself last.
That, along with the bravery of the miners, the effectiveness of the tools and the remarkable organizational skills that were brought to bear, turned a horrible tragedy into perhaps the greatest rescue operation in history.


http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=550307&p=2

 

Kudos to the Chileans. What a cause for celebration!

I'm still amazed at the technological acheivement of rescuing these guys. Amazing.

Even more so--they did it ahead of schedule. If this were the US, we'd still be holding hearings as to who had jurisdiction to dig down to the fellas.


Oh, and there's lots of lessons to be learned from one sub-plot: Apparently, the shift supervisor was the hero in the story. He carefully rationed food early on before contact had been made--and he planned and organized 12-hour work shifts during the entrapment. Apparently the shift super is the unquestioned leader in mining operations there. Good thing. It was only fitting that he be the last miner to be brought up.

I'm fully convinced that by keeping the miners busy, on task, and focused on a goal, he saved their lives (or at least their sanity).

It proves how God wired us to work--and when we don't, bad things happen.
It also proves that in a crisis, decisive leadership may be the difference between triumph and tragedy.

 

Hallelujah!

 

I give the two-timer a week or so...

...then we'll hear a news report about some mysterious lone figure going to the mine site one night, and lowering himself back into the hole.