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The first patients started arriving and everyone got busy. Sam and Laura started cutting off the women's clothes, while Jack and Mark did the men, except for their under wear which the nurses took care of.
A few minutes later some of the hospital staff started arriving. Sam asked them to wait in the waiting room and asked if any of them spoke Chinese and two of them did. She had them work with Laura and Mark taking the personal information from the injured.
Then Teal'c and the others arrived. Sam had them change first then a nurse came, asking for certain blood types. Sam went to see who had the blood type that was needed. Then they went into the staff room where Sam assisted the nurse taking the blood.
Once finished, she sent the donor back out in to the waiting room and then she marked the bag with the blood type and then passed it to the waiting nurse. Two more airmen arrived with two boxes and were told to put them in the staff room and when they walked out one of them passed a box to Jack.
Jack passed the box to Jacob who knew what was in it and gave Jack a nod. They went into one of the rooms where there was a patient with a badly crushed leg. He started partially healing him while Jack had one of the Majors from the SGC stand guard. This was to insure that no one would walk in while Jacob was using the healing device. Then Jacob asked about the most seriously injured ones and where they were.
Sam was called to Brian's room to feed the twins once they woke up and to change them. Cassie took over the blood donors in the staff room and she also made sure they all had a drink of juice with them when they returned to the waiting room. It was after 0900 the next morning before the last two injured went into surgery.
Everyone was exhausted after the long night that they had. The nurses checked on the patients during the night while Mark and Laura checked on their kids. They found the girls were asleep on a mattress on the floor of Brian's room, with a blanket over them. Everyone else was in the cafeteria drinking tea or coffee with the other hospital staff members and the blood donors.
"Any word on what caused the accident?" Jack asked.
"Yeah; I spoke to one of the police officers a couple of hours ago. There was an avalanche and the first bus couldn't see the snow until they went around a corner. He slammed on the brakes and then lost control on the black ice and ended up flipping the bus on its side. This caused a chain reaction with the next two busses. The driver of the third bus was able to use his cell phone to call 911." Cassie said.
"What the hell where they doing out at that time of night?"
"The first bus had had a flat tire which put them an hour behind their time table and then three hours later, the third bus had a broken fan belt so there was another two hours and there had been three accidents which slowed them up for another two hours." Cassie said.
"Any mortalities?" Jacob asked.
"Five died at the site and one DOA here."
"How many came through here?" Sam asked.
"Forty six" Laura said.
"Any cause for the avalanche?"
"A build up of snow on the hill side."
"We did have over 30 inches of snow in the last forty eight hours."
"That a lot of snow."
"It is" then Joan and Karen walked in, with the twins in their arms.
"They woke up a minute ago" Karen said, as she passed JJ to Sam and Joan passed Ian to Jack. She stood up to leave the room and Jack followed her.
"We will be right back" and they left so that Sam could feed the twins.
"How's Brian?" Mark asked.
"He was awake and in pain, so I called the nurse in and she gave him something and he is asleep again."
"Ok; do you want a drink?" Laura asked.
"Yes please" Laura got the girls a hot chocolate each and they sat down to drink it while the others talked for a while.
Twenty minutes later Jack and Sam returned with the twins in their arms. The SGC personnel that were still there had a look at the boys and held them as well. They gave Jack and Sam a hard time about who the boys looked like; trying to lighten the mood and it worked.
An hour later a very tired Janet and Dr Warner and their staff came in and the other's quickly got them hot cups of coffee before they sat down. Janet sat on Daniel's lap and gave him a kiss before taking a mouthful of coffee.
"What a night!"
"Yeah, it sure was. How are the last two patients?"
"They will live. Great work everyone; any ideas on what happened?"
Cassie told them what she had told the others before and a few minutes later,
"I know that every year people who travel that road say that something should be done before there is an accident. Now they might do something about it." and then two police officers walked in.
"Hi, we are looking for Dr Warner."
"I'm Dr Warner" and he stood up.
"Hi, we came for a list of names from the triple bus accident."
"Here" Laura passed the officer the list.
"There was only one dead when he arrived. There is a plus sign next to his name" Laura said.
"Thanks" then their radio cracked into life and the second officer went to talk to dispatch and then returned.
"Sorry folks, we are all stuck here. The heavy snow we had overnight has closed the roads all over the city and most of the city is without power because of downed lines."
"Great" Daniel said
"Janet, is there enough food and medicines here?" Janet asked.
"I'll go and check the meds; will someone please check the kitchen."
"I'll go" Jacob said.
"Where is your backup generator?" Jack asked.
"I'll show you, sir," one of the nurses said.
"Ok, let's do it and work from there."
Jack stood up and passed Ian to Laura before leaving with the nurse.
"This winter is the worst one I can remember" one of the officers said, looking outside.
"How long have you lived here?" Sam asked.
"Born and raised here."
"Ok" then he turned around and smiled at Sam and JJ "How old is your baby?"
"Just over a day old; they were born yesterday morning here."
"Twins?"
"Yes."
"Hey, you must be Samantha Carter."
"Yes, I am. How do you know my name?"
"Cassie Fraiser called the radio station yesterday morning, congratulations."
"Thank you."
"The guy that left with the nurse, is that your husband, General O'Neill?"
"Yes and the big mouth here is Cassie" she indicated over her shoulder.
"This is Daniel." Cassie said.
"And the woman who was sitting on his lap is my mom, Janet Fraiser."
"I'm John Smith and this is my partner, Tom Rigs."
"Hi" and just then Jack returned.
"I have good news and bad news."
"What is the bad news?"
"No gasoline but the generator is ok. Someone smashed the lock and siphoned off the gas."
"Great, if there a power cut we will all freeze and we will lose patients." Dr. Warner said.
Sam stood up and walked to the window and Jack knew she was thinking. She turned around and walked over to Cassie and passed the baby to her.
"Jack, show me the generator."
"Why?"
"Trust me."
"Ok" they left so Jack could show Sam the generator.
"Sam" she was looking it over.
"Jack, if we can get a couple of my naquadah reactors here, I can rig them up; one for power and the other for heat and we can use the Tok'ra shield to protect them from thieves."
"Ok, I'll contact the SGC and get them to send blankets and sleeping bags since we could be here for a few days."
"Good idea."
They went back into the hospital and Jack was able to contact the SGC and gave Hammond, who was stuck there, their list of things that they needed. He also let him know who was at the hospital before hanging up.
"He is going to put a chopper on standby so that as soon as this weather lets up, he well get the stuff to us."
"Good idea" they headed back to the cafeteria where the others were.
"Janet, how is the medicine situation?"
"We have enough for a week."
"Good. Dad, how about food?"
"Three days worth."
"Ok, at least we won't have to worry about water. Ok, Janet put your staff on four hour shifts, the rest of us will have to bunk down some were and get some shut eye. Janet, any extra blankets?"
"Not many I'm afraid; we are waiting for the new ones to arrive."
"Ok I called Hammond; he is stuck on base himself. As soon as this weather lets up he is going to send us a couple of Sam's generators along with blankets and sleeping bags. In the mean time everyone try to get some rest; we are going to be here for a few days. Hammond said that the long range weather forecast is more snow. He said as soon as there is a break in the weather they are going to send out all of the helicopters to the two hospitals and evacuate as many patients as they could before the next storm blows in. He is also going to send us food for a few days, as well, and I'll be sending some of you guys back to the base, since they still have only a skeleton crew on duty. For now let's all go and get some rest. Doc, where can we all crash for the timing being?"
Half an hour later everyone, except for those who were on the first duty shift, got some sleep. Dr Warner gave Jack, Sam and the twins his office, since Sam would be breast feeding. They shared a blanket and slept on the couch. Four hours later Jack's cell phone rang. He had his turned on they had found out that the telephone lines were down when the some of the staff tried to call home.
"O'Neill."
"Jack, I'm sending three choppers now. I will need three nurses and nine patients ready in ten minutes."
"Yes sir, where are they going to land?"
"On the helipad"
"Shit! Ok, I'll try my best sir" then he hung up.
"Jack?"
"Go back to sleep Sam" he gave her a kiss and got up and put his jacket and shoes on and then headed to Janet's office to wake her and the others up.
"Janet, I will need nine patients and three nurses ready in ten minutes; there has been a break in the weather."
"The phones are dead!"
"My cell is on."
"Ok, nine patients?"
"Yes" then he ran to where the men were sleeping and woke them up.
"Come on guys, choppers are on their way and we need to make a path to the helipad within ten minutes."
They got up, dressed and then they followed Jack outside to the equipment shed was. They got out shovels and Jack started up the snow blower. He checked and saw that there was a full tank of gas, so he started it up while the others started making a path to the helipad. They did the best they could and they managed to get ninety percent done be the time the first chopper arrived.
They all worked together to unload the first chopper and then put three patients and a nurse on board for evacuation and then he took off, as then the second one arrived. Within ten minutes of the arrival of the first chopper the last one was loaded and taking off and they headed back inside where it was warmer.
Laura and Cassie had made everyone hot drinks before they all went back to sleep. With nine free beds, Cassie, Sam, Joan, Karen, Laura, Janet and three nurses took them over. Later that night Sam, Laura and Cassie cooked dinner for everyone. The next day the power went out and luckily Sam had the two generators all set up, just in case they were needed. She started them up and the power and heat came on right away.
Three days later everyone had a quick shower, since they had been there for a few days already and they didn't know when they would have a chance for another one. Hammond called the next day to say that he was sending four choppers with food and blankets for them and Jack told him to call Sam's phone from now on, since his was almost dead.