UPDATE 2: Everyone is out!  The President and his wife stayed until the last rescuer was back on top and the President closed the lid on the shaft.  Wow!  What an incredible 24+ hours. 

UPDATE: All the miners are out, now the rescuers are being brought out. Once they are all on the surface we can say - what a wonderful ending to a very bad situation.  We can't say that very often.

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I'm peeking in periodically to the Fox News live feed of the rescue of the Chilean miners.  The best part of the Fox coverage - no talking by idiot news people.   It's a live feed only with sound.  I listened to the BBC feed for about 20 minutes last night and the blathering reporter about drove me up the wall.

I am very impressed, not only with the crews doing the rescue, but also the fact that the President and First Lady are there to greet every miner!   They are taking plenty of time to talk to all the family members and help them through the last few minutes of waiting.  They could have taken the easy way out, waited until the rescue was over and then brought all the miners to their place for a dinner or something.  They didn't and I find that tremendously  impressive. 

Of course I haven't watched the entire thing and maybe I missed something, but from what I've seen, everyone involved in the rescue has been simply amazing.

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1 I love that this news makes me smile. Rarely does it do that.

Posted by: Laura at October 13, 2010 04:30 PM (G4roC)

2 I keep going through the house yelling, "chi, chi, chi, le, le, le..." Nobody else in my home seems to be as excited about this as I am. They keep rolling their eyes. Meanwhile, I am GLUED. Since I got home from work, I've been glued. Bones said to my husband, "so, what's up with the miners? Where are they?" and I heard my husband say, "I don't know. Go ask your Mother. She's the resident Miner Expert". And I decided I could get lost in that mine of that Chilean Navy Special Forces paramedic would rescue me...

Posted by: Bou at October 13, 2010 05:18 PM (wEvt/)

3 Really a great story.

I wonder how that first meeting of the miner and his wife and mistress went, though...

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at October 14, 2010 06:17 AM (OXWdU)

4 Mr. Bingley I believe I read somewhere that the mistress said she would be there and the wife stayed away. Not sure it's true, but I'm pretty sure they were cautioned against a cat fight at the rescue site.  LOL. 

Posted by: Teresa at October 14, 2010 08:21 AM (TeQXy)

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I'd imagine one of the first thing each miner would do, would be to put in for their overtime.....

Posted by: Allan at October 14, 2010 09:18 AM (aWgTp)

6 I would. LOL.  Lots and lots of overtime. 

Posted by: Teresa at October 14, 2010 09:22 AM (TeQXy)

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