It's a common reflection when it comes to stories of freak accidents; the day before was ordinary.
For Stuart Diver, the sole survivor of the Thredbo landslide in 1997, the lead-up to that fateful night was "just an average day". He and his wife Sally had gone to work, done their grocery shopping and collapsed into bed early.
Despite it being the middle of a particularly cold winter, Diver, who was 27 at the time, recalled their apartment being so toasty he had gone to sleep in only his boxer shorts.
"I was just sleeping normally until I heard this massive roar and I thought, initially, it was a plane flying really low down the valley which occasionally happens, the air force [would] fly helicopters up," Diver recalled.
"Then I thought it was the wind. We do get some pretty high winds in Thredbo and they roar down the valley.
"But then that didn't go away [and] I knew it was something else."
"That's when the building collapsed. That's when Sally died," Diver said.
"That's the bit that my mind has always struggled to deal with, that so much happened in that first three minutes, yet I was then buried for another 65 hours on top of that."
