On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:29:15 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


"Sunworshipper" SW@GWNTUNDRA wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:15:50 -0400, John
wrote:

This project is sitting about 20 miles south of me in Manahoy City, PA.
The project has been stopped in its tracks when the government pulled
the committed funds from the project. This area is sitting on the
largest antricite hard coal deposit in the world. If these projects
would get set up the oil industry would have some competition and that
sure would be a problem for them.


I know that area. Was extensively mined and towns with eery lack of
people. It was like yesterday that I remember being chauffeured past
miles of strip mining and my major tree hugging girl friend was
bitching about how they just raped the land and left. She recently
****ed me off so I jokingly took the devils advocate side and she flew
off into a fit until she was so hot that I just let it go. Her other
button was just as hot ! They could have at least contoured the land
so it wouldn't look like a mine. We went to a ghost town that use to
be a mining town where the mine owned the land and stores.


SW

Did you see the town of Centralia? I used to play Little League ball against
their team, when I lived in Bloomsburg. Nice town. Now is has, I think, 5
residents. The seam under it has been burning since 1962. Heating a house
there must be cheap.


Not if it was burning in the late 80's, but all those names ring a
bell. I wasn't driving that day or I could tell you. There were only
about 3 buildings where we went and no smoke, I would have wanted to
see that. One thing for sure is that google earth is scary cause I
know my way around there and stayed a week, plus I think I've been
captured a number of times on ge. What would be really cool is an up
to date satellite images.

Small world, eh? I don't think I spent more than three years in one
place until I was 30+ and 2-4k a year average till 21. I found the
area very relaxing, but the lack of people kinda got to me. Surely
didn't feel like being watched though. There was a big school in the
town I was at and gave me a weird time travel feeling or like The
Children of Men movie where mankind went sterile. There is another
town like that in NM or west Texas some say Sonora Tx. that is right
out of Twilight Zone show. Even the newspapers blown down the road are
in slow motion.


SW