Passengers stranded on Missouri lake cruise begin to disembark

Haole Girl

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Sun Dec-12-10 01:52 PM
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Passengers stranded on Missouri lake cruise begin to disembark

Source: cnn.com

Passengers stranded on Missouri lake cruise begin to disembark

By Rick Martin, CNN
December 12, 2010 12:11 p.m. EST

(CNN) -- After a rough night spent wrapped in tablecloths and dozing on floors, stranded showboat passengers began walking to safety from their disabled vessel via a 30-foot plank, a spokeswoman for the company that owns the boat said Sunday.

The process of safely escorting to shore the 567 passengers and 76 crew members aboard the Showboat Branson Belle --stuck in a remote area of Missouri's Table Rock Lake since Saturday afternoon -- was expected to take about three hours, said Lisa Rau, a spokeswoman for Herschend Family Entertainment.

The incident left hundreds of passengers trapped on a boat with no sleeping accommodations.

Earlier, the arduous task of reaching the boat's remote location involved bulldozing vegetation to create a pathway.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/12/missouri.stranded.showboat/index.html?hpt=T2

A three hour tour...

:silly:

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NV Whino

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Sun Dec-12-10 02:04 PM
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1. Oh no!

"The Showboat Branson Belle is a 750-seat paddle boat with no gambling or alcohol."

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Haole Girl

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Sun Dec-12-10 02:09 PM
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2. "The boat's featured "Showstoppers" performance includes 30 songs..."

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dixiegrrrrl

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Sun Dec-12-10 02:56 PM
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3. Excellent video of it, by employee, now up on Youtube.

Shows the "moving earth" part.

What is really worth the view is about the 50 second mark, right after he coughs, he says " yay,meth"
as he is talking about how long everyone has been stranded there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_bU2fW6Sqk

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Haole Girl

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Sun Dec-12-10 03:03 PM
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4. "I know this guy...kinda funny..."

Edited on Sun Dec-12-10 03:04 PM by Haole Girl

I'm sure that guy thought it was real funny to have his property torn up.

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Cal Carpenter

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Sun Dec-12-10 03:19 PM
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5. Yay meth

:rofl:

Clear as day, that was hilarious.

It is pretty crazy, the land bridge they were building.

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dixiegrrrrl

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Sun Dec-12-10 03:44 PM
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6. bulldozers of one kind or another are a 2nd vehicle down here....lol.

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cbdo2007

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Sun Dec-12-10 05:08 PM
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7. they should have just gotten about 50 of those duck boats to go rescue them.

Those are all over the place in Branson.

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