Just Use a Montage

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My immediate needs of food and water being met I was free to think about some solutions to being stuck underground in a collapsed building. Knowing which way was up helped. I reasoned that digging up and at an angle would give me the best chance to survive a collapse as I wouldn't be down as deep with every foot I moved up. It was slow-going, and even worse since I decided to be smart about it. I dug my hole at about a forty degree angle. I tried to maintain about a three-foot opening which I braced and packed as I went with Re-bar and cement chunks. I was able to go a few feet a day this way. I had been doing it a week and had gotten about twenty feet. I was relying on mice and pools of water for sustenance. I didn't eat the rats. They tend to carry more disease. And so it went on. I slept, ate mice, drank stagnant water, dug and reinforced my tunnel. I've been doing just this for about two weeks now. These are the parts that they usually use a montage in a movie to fast-forward through. But I didn't have any music.