DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, August 3, 2016
-- a real-life deaf hero
A brave deaf person is Gavin Reid, a Scotsman. He
was part of a hearing crew in the Clipper Round
the World Yacht Race. During that race he
saw a disabled yacht, a big mess - propeller
was broken, the sail broken, and a boater
stuck on the top of the sail. Without thinking,
he dived towards the disabled boat and rescued
the boater. For this, he won a big government
heroic award. Two interesting things about
that race - Gavin's boat had to stop racing
to perform this rescue operation, thus losing
ground to other competing yachts. And that
the stuck boat was not even part of the race,
but happened to be sailing nearby!. A picture
of Gavin is at:
http://deafdigest.com/gavin-the-deaf-hero/
-- the deaf and the lightning
Are deaf people more in danger when lightning
strikes as compared to hearing people? Thunder
comes first before the lightning, often few
seconds apart. Hearing people can hear the
thunder; many deaf people can't. Hearing
people run indoors when they hear the
thunder. A deaf person may stay outside
unaware that the lightning is coming up
real soon! This was the warning from the
National Weather Service. What should
the deaf person do? Look at the weather
reports and at the sky. If it looks bad,
just stay indoors!
-- 911 died for one hour
Vermont is a great state. But it has no state
school for the deaf - and for almost an hour
earlier this week, the 911 system went dead!
During that very long one hour, deaf people
that wanted to use 911 were out of luck.
Why did 911 crash? Something to do with bad
software! And it was not the first time
it happened this summer. It happened
late in June. In fact, the state officials
have suggested Vermonters better know
their 7-digit police station numbers
as an emergency back up. 7-digits for
the deaf, forget it! We need easy 3-digits,
not hard 7-digits.
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- Comment, worst about deaf
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
08/01/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
