Posted on 06/30/2020 7:29:05 PM PDT by DoodleBob
I have never heard of this. Heard of the Centralia some 20 years ago when my parents visited up there. But never with all my connection to Cumberland have I heard of underground burning.
Nice phallic symbol.
Great place for kids.
People are so high class.
Missed that, thanks.
Why don’t they hire some fracking teams to frack the whole region, pulverize the rock under it and just crush the fire out by collapsing all the old mine shafts?
Could air still get in if the shafts were gone?
Oh, man, just drive the grade up to Frostburg, the colder, the better, and you’ll see the steam coming out of the bedrock in the median. Unless it finally went out or they finally found a way to starve it, there’s a mine burning deep under there. Not as bad as Centralia, but it’s still chugging along. I pointed it out to my wife one year when we were heading to (I think) Penn Alps for Christmas dinner with my family (or, it may have been The Casselman or Savage River Lodge), but it was still percolating. It’s just one of those ‘things’ that is so ubiquitous to the locals, it isn’t even really a subject for discussion. Kind of a boring little factoid. Hey, it’s it’s coal country. It goes with terrain.
Thanks to those environmental snowflakes and their downstate co-conspirators in Annapolis, all fracking is banned in Maryland. I can remember as a kid, pulling out handfuls of dark, petroleum-smelling oil shale from dirt in the mountainside we lived on. It would be an economic boon to the area, if it weren’t for a dozen infantile protestations from the hippy-dippy contingent. Same goes for coal - now everbody wants ‘clean’ coal, and the sulfur content of the coal up there is too high and the cost of extracting and refining it too prohibitive for it to be of any domestic use now. The area has been dying from a thousand papercuts for a half century now. One more reason to loathe liberals to the point of wanting to watch them die a slow, lingering death.
Yes, that is a pretty accurate description: And even two openings in the porous (Swiss Cheese holed) underground allows enough air underground to keep the fires burning.
Centralia was an underground coal mining district - a really big one - so adjacent mines open up even more airways.
By the way, Lewis and Clark’s expedition through upstate ND and Montana reported several underground coal fires burning the bluffs overhead as they passed by in 1802-1803! That was one way they verified that coal was available near the surface out there in the newly purchased Louisiana Territory. (I understand, but have not confirmed) that several of their fires are still burning.
I went to Frostburg State College decades ago, and had never heard of an underground mine fire there. Interesting info.
Other than the graffiti and the smoke, most roads in PA look just like that.
So a tiny bit of the Great Bathroom Wall in the northeast is being covered up.
Drove through there a few years ago, never saw smoke or anything. Called my friend who lives nearby, he has been riding motorcycles around there for 20+ years...He never saw any sign of smoke or fire. Just sayin...
Oh yes, there were quite a few “interesting” pictures there - I always wonder a bit about people who draw such juvenile images.
There’s an abandoned building on Broad Street going into Philadelphia. Some lovely person took the time and energy to get in, climb to the top and then hang out the windows, on multiple floors, to “tag” the building. And what did they write?? “”BONER FOREVER”” Yep — wow that’s so clever!
We visited Centralia a few years ago, it was interesting but not worth a visit unless you were already in the area for something else.
If I wanted to see graffiti AND put my life in danger...I’d visit CHAZ.
LOL
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