Fires, storms, wars, floods, disease...
We were in Ladakh last year when the area experienced a freak 'cloudburst' and mudslides which buried many homes and sadly, many people as well. Both roads out of town were closed down for a week, fuel was scarce and the overall feeling was of barely contained fear for some time (on a couple of occasions, panic-fueled evacuations were sparked by rumours and fear, even on blue-sky days). It was of course terrible but at the same time I'm glad we were there to witness it and do what we could to help out.
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Then less than a month later we had to take flight from Srinigar in the face of a mass-riot coming down the street (not as uncommon in Kashmir as one would hope). We were helped greatly by an old guy who guided us out of town via the backstreets on his motorbike.
null blog 537726 Reply to this I flew from NYC to London on Sept 10 2001 and completely paniced when the planes hit so although i had been living in the UK organised the first flight i could (once flights were back on ) and flew back to Australia.
We got stuck in Bali at the beginning of this year when the volcano errupted, but i didnt really see that as a problem lol! Oh no, i cant come back to work as i'm stuck on a tropical island! 😊)
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