• Few remain as 1962 Pa. coal town fire still burns
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[QUOTE=Doug52392;20047845]This city has been in the news a lot over the years. It reminds me of Chernobyl, because the incident happened due to mistakes being made (they didn't put the fire out when it started), and it destroyed a vast amount of land. Oil fires are almost impossible to put out. There are still raging infernos in Saudi Arabia from when Saddam Hussein tourched the country's oil fields in the '90s.[/QUOTE] Hahaha...
I have been here. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgmku8DDmGI[/media] [url]http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=133768&id=528912321&l=f0ed90b4b8[/url]
[QUOTE=Tugger;20051205]I have been here. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgmku8DDmGI[/media] [url]http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=133768&id=528912321&l=f0ed90b4b8[/url][/QUOTE] That video is compressed in an eyeball-destroying fashion.
I've seen a documentary about that town... pretty interesting
[QUOTE=smurfy;20047988]Researching this now, it is some interesting shit. [img_thumb]http://imgkk.com/i/4ky.jpg[/img_thumb] Pennsylvania Route 61 used to pass through Centralia. Now it's a bit too rough for most cars.[/QUOTE] I drive on that road every once in a while. Pennsylvania is pretty cool actually, we have lots of weird shit. There's even this really fucking weird mansion thing that a whole bunch of albinos live in. The high schoolers with cars will sometimes drive up and they get chased away by knife wielding albinos. No joke. Plus we have gravity hill, were shit ACTUALLY ROLLS UPHILL. Click image for a link to a site about it. [url=http://www.gravityhill.com/][img]http://www.aolcdn.com/channels/0d/03/48231c11-00371-029af-400cb8e1[/img][/url]
[QUOTE=Doug52392;20047845]Oil fires are almost impossible to put out.[/QUOTE] No, you just put water on the fire :downs: water and fire are opposites, didn't you know?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivKlZpwdOdQ[/media] Related. Skip to 2:30 after watching start if you are a lazy fuck. I watched this a few years ago. Was on at like 2am. Good movie.
[QUOTE=trent_roolz;20051369] Plus we have gravity hill, were shit ACTUALLY ROLLS UPHILL. Click image for a link to a site about it. [url=http://www.gravityhill.com/][img_thumb]http://www.aolcdn.com/channels/0d/03/48231c11-00371-029af-400cb8e1[/img_thumb][/url][/QUOTE] What causes that? Steam coming up through the road or something?
[QUOTE=Zeke129;20052860]What causes that? Steam coming up through the road or something?[/QUOTE] The road is actually downhill but because of the surroundings it seems to go uphill. The surroundings override your balance so the illusion is solid. It's nowhere near Centralia.
[QUOTE=GunsNRoses;20051693]No, you just put water on the fire :downs: water and fire are opposites, didn't you know?[/QUOTE] Water doesn't put out oil files easily and can actually make them worse by providing more oxygen for them to burn.
Silent Hill was based on this town [IMG]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/rating/clock.png[/IMG]
PA is one damn interesting state. Full of cool shit.
[QUOTE=Radroach95;20048361][b]Keep flaming[/b], all you just gonna do is end up banned.[/QUOTE] :smug:
People back in the 60's were stupid.
[QUOTE=Zeddy;20053171]Water doesn't put out oil files easily and can actually make them worse by providing more oxygen for them to burn.[/QUOTE] Exactly. This is what my vid is about.
Use explosives to cancel out the fire.
In the 2006 horror film Silent Hill, the town of Silent Hill has been abandoned due to a prolonged mine fire, which writer Roger Avary says was inspired by Centralia.[16] Aspects of this are shown throughout the movie, such as characters wandering through the misty version of Silent Hill wearing mining gear.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;20052860]What causes that? Steam coming up through the road or something?[/QUOTE] It's an optical illusion where a downhill slope appears to look like it goes uphill.
[QUOTE=Konigstiger96;20056830]It's an optical illusion where a downhill slope appears to look like it goes uphill.[/QUOTE] So when you're actually there the illusion is broken?
[QUOTE=Zeddy;20053171]Water doesn't put out oil files easily and can actually make them worse by providing more oxygen for them to burn.[/QUOTE] I'm just pulling your dick, mate.
"It's my house, I don't want to move!" IT'S ON FIRE YOU IDIOT.
[QUOTE=robowurmz;20057773]"It's my house, I don't want to move!" IT'S ON FIRE YOU IDIOT.[/QUOTE] In this case, you're the idiot, how would you feel to move out of a place that has been your home for many years?
[QUOTE=Zeddy;20048191]This town has always reminded me of Silent Hill. Its really creepy.[/QUOTE] Because it is Silent Hill..1962 was before any Playstation was ever made.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;20056865]So when you're actually there the illusion is broken?[/QUOTE] No, vision overrides your sense of balance so it really does feel like it's going uphill.
Couldn't they just cover the mine entrances with some of those plastic tents they use in bio hazard situations? They could smother the fires and reopen what's left of the mine.
[QUOTE=Nitrowing;20060872]Couldn't they just cover the mine entrances with some of those plastic tents they use in bio hazard situations? They could smother the fires and reopen what's left of the mine.[/QUOTE] Golly I wonder why no one thought of this simple solution in the last fifty years. Oh maybe because it wouldn't work?
[QUOTE=Radroach95;20047662]I guess that [highlight]Coal Fire[/highlight] Made that town [highlight]well[/highlight] Done [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_us/us_centralia_s_final_days[/url][/QUOTE] If you can't make a good pun, don't pun at all.
[QUOTE=Jurikuer;20060510]Because it is Silent Hill..1962 was before any Playstation was ever made.[/QUOTE] Dude, the game's Silent Hill does not have a coal fire underneath it.
I heard this mine fire was inspired by Silent Hill.
[URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g[/URL] Seems appropriate.
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