[Sca-cooks] Fw: [OST] For Brewers

[Phlip]

At least one country has its priorities straight ;-)

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Pinto" <hpinto at mindspring.com>
To: <ostgardr at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:26 PM
Subject: [OST] For Brewers


> Army Joins Struggle to Save Beer
> Reuters
>
> MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has sent in the army to bolster a week-long
> struggle to rescue 10 tons of beer trapped under Siberian ice, Itar-Tass
> news agency said Tuesday. A lorry carrying the beer sank when trying to
> cross the frozen Irtysh river, and a rescue team of six divers, 10 workers
> and a modified T-72 tank from the emergencies ministry have so far failed
to
> save the load.
>
> "The situation hasn't developed according to our ideal scenario," the
deputy
> head of the Cherlaksky region, told the agency. Temperatures were around
> minus 27 degrees Celsius (minus 17 degrees Fahrenheit) in the region, near
> the Siberian city of Omsk and around 1,400 miles from Moscow.
>
> A week-long effort to cut a 100 yard corridor to the river bank to pull
the
> truck to dry land failed when the vehicle was swept away from the rescue
> site, Tass said.
>
> But it said the soldiers were confident it would take them just a day to
> retrieve the beer.
>
>
>