NO Hope? Good Things Can Still Happen.

Even if you have NO Hope... good things can still happen.

Apparently... there is no need of hope... good things can still happen.

Check out this news article below.

"...he admitted he had given up hope — as had his mother, struggling for oxygen and badly injured."

"If there was hope it could be found in the rescue of ...Victorian-born Anne Vos ... . Ms Vos, who was born and raised in Geelong, had spoken to media outlets on her mobile phone after being effectively buried alive during the quake on Tuesday. She had hidden beneath her desk, which was then pinned by the falling roof. Her phone battery ran out overnight, and as the hours ticked by, fears for her safety mounted ... .By mid-afternoon there was cause for a ... celebration when Ms Vos's rescue was confirmed. The receptionist has been taken to hospital suffering two broken ribs and a cut arm. Her son, Robert, who lives in Melbourne, had received a voicemail message from his mother saying goodbye after she became trapped; he then flew to New Zealand. Looking at the images of the PGC Building, he admitted he had given up hope — as had his mother, struggling for oxygen and badly injured. When they finally came face to face, Ms Vos said: ''I'm sure someone's watching over me.'' Had she not just started her shift behind the sturdy reception desk, she wouldn't have had shelter when the building crumbled. ''It would definitely be over,'' Robert, 31, said. ''We are just overjoyed and amazed as well as concerned for the other people as well.''"

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News ~ Little joy as too few emerge from rubble

24 Feb 2011, The Australian

'They got Ann out of the building and God turned on the lights' BOB PARKER CHRISTCHURCH MAYOR

THERE were precious few moments of joy in Christchurch yesterday and a thousand more of despair. This was the day when many families were informed that hope had expired; that the masses of concrete entombing their loved ones were simply not ''survivable''. At the Canterbury Television building, emergency crews had responded to reports that up to 15 people were alive in an air pocket somewhere in the rubble. But with distraught family members gathered in vigil nearby, that report was revealed as a rumour. 

The two teenage children of CTV presenter Donna Manning had been in the middle of telling the media their trapped mother was a ''superwoman'' who could do anything when a police officer knelt beside Lizzie, 18, Kent, 15, and their father Jonathon to deliver the most horrific news. Police later confirmed that, while there were thought to be survivors at seven other sites across Christchurch, no one could have survived at the six-storey CTV building — and that the safety of rescue workers would not be risked. 

If there was hope it could be found in the rescue of two women, including Victorian-born Anne Vos and Christchurch local Ann Bodkin, from the remnants of the Pyne Gould Corp Building about 24 hours after it was toppled by the earthquake. Ms Vos, who was born and raised in Geelong, had spoken to media outlets on her mobile phone after being effectively buried alive during the quake on Tuesday. She had hidden beneath her desk, which was then pinned by the falling roof. Her phone battery ran out overnight, and as the hours ticked by, fears for her safety mounted — especially when rescuers pulled another woman, Ann Bodkin, from the rubble who had been trapped in remarkably similar circumstances under a table. Ms Bodkin emerged in a precautionary neck brace at about lunchtime but she was chirpy, giggling and largely uninjured in what was hailed as a ''miracle rescue''. As Ms Bodkin emerged, giant sunbeams burst through the city's grey, drizzly weather. ''They got Ann out of the building and God turned on the lights,'' Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said. Firefighters at the scene broke into applause when she was carried out. ''Getting her out is just stupendous,'' her husband, Graham Richardson, said. ''I'm a very happy man. I obviously feel for all the other people waiting to hear.'' By mid-afternoon there was cause for a twin celebration when Ms Vos's rescue was confirmed. The receptionist has been taken to hospital suffering two broken ribs and a cut arm. Her son, Robert, who lives in Melbourne, had received a voicemail message from his mother saying goodbye after she became trapped; he then flew to New Zealand. Looking at the images of the PGC Building, he admitted he had given up hope — as had his mother, struggling for oxygen and badly injured. When they finally came face to face, Ms Vos said: ''I'm sure someone's watching over me.'' Had she not just started her shift behind the sturdy reception desk, she wouldn't have had shelter when the building crumbled. ''It would definitely be over,'' Robert, 31, said. ''We are just overjoyed and amazed as well as concerned for the other people as well.'' 

According to media reports last night, another man was pulled out of the same building just before Ms Bodkin's voice was heard. James Faithfull was reported to be in reasonably good shape after the rescue, with his family waiting on hand for him to emerge. Rescuers still hope to find up to 14 more survivors at the PGC Building, meaning that, for many more families such as the Maynards, the agonising wait continues. Mark Maynard's wife, Kelly, worked on the first floor of the building, and he had spoken to her just 20 minutes before the 6.3 magnitude earthquake ripped through the South Island metropolis. He has not heard from her since. ''It is still no good at the moment. I am hanging around waiting. What do you do?'' he told stuff.co.nz. The couple have two children under three, and yesterday morning Mr Maynard was forced to confront their simple but heartrending questions. ''When we got up this morning they asked, 'Where is mum?' and I said, 'She is still at work','' he said. 

The rescue at the CTV building has now become a retrieval, and the news prompted an outpouring of anger and grief. Aaron Waine's mother has not emerged. Susan Chuter had started her job in sales for the CTV network just a month ago. ''She loved it, and she loved life,'' Aaron said. ''To pass away in these conditions, it's one of the cruellest ways to go.'' Mr Parker said about 300 people remained unaccounted for.

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