Israel North blog (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} israelnorthblog) wrote,@ 2006-08-11 20:14:00 |
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Haifa, lorique, August 11, 2006
They get closer to us, every day and every hour. Today our small town (it was relatively quiet here) was hit in three different places.
I was at work at that time (as a matter of fact, our clinic is right halfway between the two spots where rockets exploded). Nothing unusual, routine procedure – we heard the siren on the radio, shouted “Siren” to warn customers and run to the bomb shelter. The explosion occurred immediately after that. It was so loud that we started yelling. It felt like the explosion was right behind the wall. Everyone reached for the cell phones, but there was no cellular service, and landline phones stopped functioning half an hour before the rocket attack. Of course, the radio didn’t tell the exact locations of the explosions (for security purposes) but very soon customers and personnel started calling friends and relatives and found out the places of rockets’ landings. My mother was able to reach me. Someone told her that the rocket exploded in the building on the main street. Our clinic is the newest building (only one month old) on the main street of town. I was lucky to call her before the lines were disconnected. Our cleaning lady was less fortunate. Her son called her and said “It landed very close to our house…” - and then the phone went dead. Poor woman immediately fainted.
News channels revealed the places of explosions only two hours later. Two rockets landed in open space, and in the third case – two wounded and several people in shock (the rockets hit a new house, fortunately not on the main street but two blocks away).
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lorique, August 11, 2006They get closer to us, every day and every hour. Today our small town (it was relatively quiet here) was hit in three different places.
I was at work at that time (as a matter of fact, our clinic is right halfway between the two spots where rockets exploded). Nothing unusual, routine procedure – we heard the siren on the radio, shouted “Siren” to warn customers and run to the bomb shelter. The explosion occurred immediately after that. It was so loud that we started yelling. It felt like the explosion was right behind the wall. Everyone reached for the cell phones, but there was no cellular service, and landline phones stopped functioning half an hour before the rocket attack. Of course, the radio didn’t tell the exact locations of the explosions (for security purposes) but very soon customers and personnel started calling friends and relatives and found out the places of rockets’ landings. My mother was able to reach me. Someone told her that the rocket exploded in the building on the main street. Our clinic is the newest building (only one month old) on the main street of town. I was lucky to call her before the lines were disconnected. Our cleaning lady was less fortunate. Her son called her and said “It landed very close to our house…” - and then the phone went dead. Poor woman immediately fainted.
News channels revealed the places of explosions only two hours later. Two rockets landed in open space, and in the third case – two wounded and several people in shock (the rockets hit a new house, fortunately not on the main street but two blocks away).
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