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My wife and I went out to Centralia, PA last weekend. It's a coal mining town that was abandoned in the 1960s when they managed to light the coal underground on fire. The coal will continue to burn for the next 150-200 years. A few people chose to stay, and their homes stand in stark contrast to the vacant lots around them. We didn't walk anywhere that explicitly said "No Tresspassing", or looked like it was somebody's property. I love how you can see a wind farm from near the St. Ignatius Cemetery at the south edge of town.  Centralia used to be famous for it's "Graffiti Highway". It was a section of PA Route 61 that was too difficult to maintain due to the active fire beneath it, so Pennsylvania blocked it off and built a new Route 61 around it. People used to come here and graffiti up the street. Unfortunately, it was covered up by the company that owns the land, ostensibly because too many people were using the Graffiti Highway as a gathering place during the summer of last year. Anyway, here's another graffiti'd up street, plus the volvo I rented.  Rainwater collects in the mines, and exits through this old ventilation shaft. It's now known as the Big Mine Run Geyser. Depending on how much rain has fallen, the geyser can get as high as 15 feet. It's located in a valley to the south of Centralia, at the end of Big Mine Run Rd.  Now that we're familiar with the area, we're planning another trip.
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Verman posted:That's cool. I've always wondered about that place since learning about it as a kid. It's not the desolate hellscape my wife was expecting. For the most part, you're not looking at a burning coal mine, you're looking at the forest on the mountain that has an on-fire coal mine inside of it.
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May 18, 2021 05:00
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Mr. Crow posted:Be careful, I doubt the coal is close enough to the surface to be a huge risk but a big danger with the Oregon wildfires last year was the root systems catching fire and drying out the soil above them. You can think your walking on normal ground and then collapse through the baked earth and your legs are buried in a thousand+ degree oven. Thanks. This is a good reminder.
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May 18, 2021 14:52
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His Divine Shadow posted:A few photos from the Åland islands, it's an archipelago in south western finland. Looks like gorgeous weather! How are the mosquitos?
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This is a quality birb. Qtotonibudinibudet posted:Eastern Tajikistan has quite a lot of outdoors: Fuckin' awesome!
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RoastBeef posted:
Sounds like a good way to spend 127 hours. TontoCorazon posted:Been waking the Brooklyn bridge almost every Friday on my way home to get more cardio in and the view is always good stuff NYC's bridges are one of its best features. Good photo!
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