Miraculous survival tales from New Zealand quake
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CHRISTCHURCH — Miraculous tales of survival emerged on Monday after New Zealand’s most damaging earthquake in 80 years hurled sleeping residents into their gardens and left others cowering inside collapsing homes.
Xavier Trousselot-Rhodes, 16, was asleep when the quake hit at about 4:35 a.m. on Saturday. He was tossed out of bed, through a disintegrating wall and into a pile of rubble on the ground outside, several meters (feet) below.
Despite his ordeal, the teenager suffered nothing more serious than cuts and bruises.
“I pretty much rolled (off the bed) and, as I rolled to the right, the wall gave way,” he told The Press newspaper.
“I was just in my boxers, so I had nothing to protect me really, and yet the car I landed next to was written off. It looked like it had been through a war zone.”
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100907com3.html
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