Word: motels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was almost no warning last week before a giant C-130 transport plane of the Kentucky Air National Guard plummeted into a restaurant and motel in Evansville, Ind., and then exploded in a giant fireball. Sixteen people were killed in the crash, including the five crewmen aboard the plane, two workers at JoJo's restaurant, and nine people at the adjacent Drury Inn motel, all of them employees of a plumbing-supply company, who were gathered in a fourth- floor conference room...
...which occurred while the crew was practicing a maneuver called "low approach," in which the plane would fly close to but not touch the airstrip of nearby Evansville Regional Airport. Soon after takeoff, the plane went into a nose dive. William Capodagli was in a seminar room of the motel when the plane hit. "There was this incredible fireball bursting through our window," he says. "Where there should have been daylight was a big spinning ball of flame...
...down," says Bobby, "but you don't have to stay there." The next day Tamey found a job running a cash register at Hardee's. Soon they had enough money to move into some cheap motels on a seedy avenue of used-car dealerships, pawn-shops and nightclubs. Within weeks they sent for the kids, who showed up the day before Nicole's 10th birthday. As she stepped out of the car at 5 a.m., Nicole took one look at the decrepit motel and asked, "Where are we going to live, Mom?" Tamey's response: "Here." Her daughter shrugged...
...Motel life might have soured their souls. The children watched television all day, and slept on the floor or shared a single bed. They ate lunch meat from a cooler, or cooked fried chicken on some electric skillets and a hot plate they bought from a street person. Brandon once tripped over a shoe and burned his hand on hot oil in the skillet. He sobbed for an hour, but Tamey did not think the burn was bad enough to justify calling an ambulance. She was worried about the cost...
...Hardens, of course, are the rare exceptions to a hard rule. They are safe and together, in a place of their own. Most homeless children will spend this holiday watching TV in a shelter or a rundown motel -- if they are even that lucky. When Christmas is over, there will still be no end of work to be done, and a crying need for miracles...