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Ice Spiders (TV Movie 2. Edit. When a young ski team training for the Olympics arrives at the remote and isolated Lost Mountain Ski Resort to focus on training, they're thrilled to find a retired Olympic skier is there to help them train. But their plans are halted when a scientist working at a nearby government lab arrives with the horrifying news that a top secret Government project has produced giant spiders and they have escaped, killing and eating everything in sight.
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Italian Hotel’s Too- True Earthquake Avalanche Horror Story. A day after the upscale Hotel Rigopiano was buried in an earthquake- induced avalanche, 3. PENNE, Italy—Freezing to death must surely be among the worst ways to die.
But imagine what it would be like to be stuck in a luxury resort spa that was buried by an avalanche. Imagine those first few long hours trying to find a way out, blocked by fallen hotel room furniture, trapped under a bureau or a mattress.
The snow keeps falling, creating a barrier of insulation that keeps your screams muffled. The subzero temperatures freeze your fingers, your toes, and finally shut down your vital organs. That is most likely what some of the estimated 3. Hotel Rigopiano felt when it was buried by an earthquake- induced avalanche. But by Thursday night, nearly 2. Italian region of Abruzzo, no one still knows with any certainty if there are survivors but the two men who were found in a car outside the structure, or, more importantly, if they could have saved anyone had rescuers been able to reach the area. Just two bodies have been pulled out so far.
The Hotel Rigopiano was a special place. Trip Advisor users gave it four stars for its “relaxing isolation” and “mind blowing mountain spa experience.” But in mid- January, the Rigopiano wasn’t at full capacity, and those who were there weren’t the usual Trip Advisor clients.
It is off- season, after the holidays and before the traditional February ski week vacations, so the guests were local people from Abruzzo who enjoy long weekends at discount between- season prices. More than 4. 0 relatives of victims of those trapped in the still- buried hotel, almost all from towns within a 1.
Penne, the largest village in close range. There they await word of anyone pulled alive from the buried hotel. Some of those trapped inside the hotel were there because their homes were destroyed in earthquakes that struck the region in October. Others whose homes were destroyed in earthquakes here in August were on a weeklong holiday before getting back to work rebuilding their homes, according to the Italian newswire ANSA. Italy’s civil protection agency says it has about 1,0. But because the narrow mountain roads are under more than six feet of snow and blocked by fallen trees from the avalanche, rescuers have struggled to get heavy equipment up to the area to try to move the roof of the hotel from its collapsed walls to look for survivors. It took more than 1.
Other responders were dropped in by helicopter with cadaver dogs, which haven’t been able to pick up any scents so far due to the cold. Instead, as they wait for heavy equipment to arrive, rescuers have spent hours yelling into the ruined structure, hoping to hear something—anything—from inside. Because of blinding snow and subzero temperatures, the rescuers are working abbreviated shifts to avoid frostbite and other cold- related ailments.