[shilala]

Originally Posted by smitty81

hmm..................your town might end up like this one.

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-s...-of-centralia/

I've been to Centralia, back around '86. It was just an oddity then. It's not the only mine fire that's been burning for years. It's just the only one that wrecked a town (that I know of).
It's really weird to see the cracks in the ground and the smoke billowing out. There's a whole side of the mountain that smolders underground, the smoke rising in different places.
For some reason they razed the trees and made it look like a clearcut. I'm guessing they didn't want surface fires.