National news broke early this morning that an Amtrak train near Oakridge , Oregon on its elbow room to California had been strand with 183 peoplefor over 30 hours . And many people reasonably assumed that it would be an apocalyptic berth by now . But aside from some modest inconvenience , it actually sounds moderately relaxed now 36 hours in .
The southbound power train , which go between Seattle and Los Angeles , reportedly hit a tree diagram that was on the racecourse on Sunday and the passengers have been stuck in spite of appearance ever since . Why ? The combination of its remote location and the heavy snow .
The snack cart is reportedly empty and some masses are ingest to improvise diapers for their babies , but everyone seems to be taking the entire thing in tread . There are no wound and Amtrak say they ’re trying to make everyone comfortable . In fact , some multitude seem to be have fun .
“ It ’s just been like a elephantine kumbaya party , ” one rider , Rebekah Dodson , secern CNN earlierthis morn . “ unknown are playing card . A teenager played his ukulele to kids to get them to sleep . Ladies who have never met before were dancing in aisles . ”
As you could see from the videos being mail tosocial mediaand blame up by local intelligence , everyone seems to bedoing okay , all things think .
update – they ’re now playing the uke …
reckon like they ’re all spending a second night on the train , trying to make the best of it . Thanks to John onboard for all these videos!#fox12#stuckamtrak#oakridge#snowpic.twitter.com / qoU59GXUaO
— Bonnie Silkman KPTV ( @BonnieSilkman)February 26 , 2019
Thisdoesn’t looklike the Lord of the Flies situation like you might expect when critical mod infrastructure split down . There ’s plenty of time for mirror selfies , even if there are reports of spotty mobile phone receipt . News channelKOIN 6reports that Verizon is the only company that ’s providing decent service in the area aright now .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1100249727465967616
That being said , some apparent passengers are tweeting about how thing aregetting bad . They ’re joking , we adopt .
We have accepted our new life on the train . Tribes are forming . We are all walking thin.#stuckonamtrak
— Tracy27 ( @Tracy27)February 26 , 2019
Amtrak says that nobody onboard is being charged for food and water , but it ’s unclear how much of it is left . ( Good Morning Americareported this morningthat the gearing is “ draw out ” of food . )
An Amtrak spokesperson told CNN that the train should be able to return to Eugene this morn , but there have n’t been paper of that happening yet . We ’ll update this article when the people are either rescued or the situation descends into cannibalism .
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