Staff have celebrated receiving the vaccine at Broadway Halls Care Home in Dudley THERE have been sighs of relief and quiet celebrations at Broadway Halls Care Home in Dudley after residents and staff received their Covid-19 vaccines. Elderly people at five care homes across the Dudley borough have now had coronavirus vaccines.although health and council chiefs have not confirmed which ones and how many residents have so far received Covid jabs. Residents and staff at Barchester Healthcare s Broadway Halls Care Home on The Broadway in Dudley received their vaccines at the end of last week and general manager Rebecca Long said: “Last year was a year like no other and the vaccine feels like the light at the end of the tunnel.
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The Inherent Dangers of Backcountry Skiing in Colorado’s Mountains
What can a fatal backcountry skiing accident on Jones Pass, on the west side of the Continental Divide, teach us about Colorado’s snowcat outfitters? And can these quintessential Centennial State adventures ever truly be safe?Tracy Ross •
The avalanche that killed my friend, Hans Berg, on Jones Pass on the afternoon of March 7, 2019, was about 2,000 feet wide and ran from its start, beneath a cornice that collapsed, approximately 1,000 feet to its stopping point, across a snowcat road. The avalanche, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), spread both to the north and south of the spot where the school-bus-size chunk of cornice fell and triggered more breaks on a sheet of snow that sat on what avalanche professionals call a persistent weak layer (PWL). PWLs resist bonding to other layers of snow over time, and when disturbed they can fail, sometimes creating massive avalanches