Underground fire may burn for hundreds of years.

• Con_Alma

  After college I contracted services for Bell Atlantic and my work took me through this area once. This underground coal fire is still burning with no end in site. It's a pretty remarkable story.
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_us/us_centralia_s_final_days
• Glory Days

  

  saw that on the history channel a while ago. pretty strange event. i understand people not wanting to move, but i think for them to deny the fire exists is pretty stupid.
• LJ

  

  Centralia, didn't even have to open the article. Some friends and I are taking a road trip there this summer.
• Con_Alma

  It doesn't take much to determine there's a fire burning there. Simply look down and watch the smoke rising from the ground all around you.
• sherm03

  

  I saw this place on the show "Life After People" one night. Pretty amazing to see the old photos where the town was at its peak, and then contrast that with the deserted ghost town it is now. The thing that amazed me were the people that stayed despite the streets breaking and cracking like crazy.
  
  I sure as hell would have had no problem getting out.
• Glory Days

  

  sherm03 wrote: I saw this place on the show "Life After People" one night. Pretty amazing to see the old photos where the town was at its peak, and then contrast that with the deserted ghost town it is now. The thing that amazed me were the people that stayed despite the streets breaking and cracking like crazy.
  
  I sure as hell would have had no problem getting out.

  that and knowing there might be toxic gas seeping into the house and you might not wake up the next morning. you wouldnt have to tell me twice.
• Chesapeake

  

  I read the full story, crazy stuff!
• Con_Alma

  Amen. I think the biggest wait was based on how to get out of their house without just losing it...at least I hope that was the case.
  
  When the Feds agreed to start buying property from the people they should have ran right then and there.
• LJ

  

  
• Glory Days

  

  ^^^^^ well now i am going to have nightmares for sure.
• justincredible

  

  I remember seeing something on this story on tv a while ago. No chance I would've stuck around.
• LJ

  

  Glory Days wrote: ^^^^^ well now i am going to have nightmares for sure.

  Silent Hill was based in Centralia
• fan_from_texas

  That's a wild story--I'd never heard of this before.
• Tinkertrain

  Reminds me of the John Candy movie Nothing But Trouble.
• Sykotyk

  

  http://www.abandonthecube.com/blog/visiting-the-gates-of-hell-darvaza-turkmenistan/
  
  That has nothing on Darvaza's Gateway to Hell.
  
  Sykotyk
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  I thought this was going to be another Taco Bell or White Castle thread....
• Con_Alma

  Taco Bell or White Castle? You don't know me very well.