Aberfan

[Mr Snrub]

Trabi601 said:

The most tragic thing about the whole event was that the school etc., could have been evacuated if some scrotes hadn't stolen the communication cables, meaning there was no phone line to raise the alarm.

Accounts I read said the slide moved so quickly there would have been no time to warn them anyway

[Trabi601]

Mr Snrub said:

Trabi601 said:

The most tragic thing about the whole event was that the school etc., could have been evacuated if some scrotes hadn't stolen the communication cables, meaning there was no phone line to raise the alarm.

Accounts I read said the slide moved so quickly there would have been no time to warn them anyway

It was something I heard on BBC Wales the other day.

[Derek Smith]

Mr Snrub said:

Accounts I read said the slide moved so quickly there would have been no time to warn them anyway

There was much contradiction in the early reports. Only to be expected of course. But various politicians and officials, I think from the NCB, kept up the misinformation.

I think there's little doubt that it did move quite fast towards the end but I think it started quite slowly. But then later reports suggested that such minor movements went on all the time.