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Old 20-11-2008, 08:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Boy am I glad to be able to log on here tonight!!!!

Just had a harrowing experience in the hotel in Queensland.... Decided not to travel in QLD this evening because of the storm so my colleague and I thought we would have dinner at the hotel.

We are seated at a window table overlooking the pool and my colleague is taking pictures of the storm with her mobile phone. I can feel pressure on the window behind me and so call out to her to get up and away from the window - we get up and she is just about to go back and I grab her and say 'don't go back'!!! With that the window smashes from the sheer force of the wind and glass shards are sprayed all over the area in which we were just sitting.

Thank God for that intuitive 6th sense that just makes you know something isn't quite right!!! Had it not been for that intuition I know that both my colleague and I would be seriously injured right now - maybe even fatally so!!!!

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Inexplicable, but thank fook it was with you today Reedy.

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wow that sounds seriously scary! glad you are both ok lau

oh and always listen to your intuition!!
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Inexplicable, but thank fook it was with you today Reedy.

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OMG, im glad you weren't injured, gut feelings and sixth sense are always worth listening too.
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Very scary!!! What was even more bizarre is that they kept the restaurant open and cleaned the glass and debris etc with people still in the there walking about ???????
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OMG! So glad that you are OK Lau.

I am sure you are better placed than most to contact the hotel management to make a few forceful points about health and safety and their windows......

No idea about the laws etc, but to keep on trading and not to clear the area... sounds very dangerous.
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