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  • How a Pleasanton couple outran a deadly Nepal flash flood

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📰 News we're reading

• Bay Area couple recount escape from Nepal flood: 'I knew I was going to die' (sfchronicle.com) — A Pleasanton couple on a long-awaited spiritual pilgrimage narrowly escaped a deadly flash flood in Nepal, sprinting from their tour bus as a towering wall of water and debris roared through the valley. They spent the night sheltering with other survivors before being airlifted out, and now describe both the terror they felt and the compassion of rescuers as hundreds remain dead or missing.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A hole (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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