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by hettygreen 3y ago
Part 1: https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/burning-coal-country-some-wondering-if-underground-fire-spreading-toward-homes-businesses-in-schuylkill/article_1348f20a-acb1-11ed-8e27-d7b799b59df8.html https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/burning-coal-cou...
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I stopped by Centralia on a road trip, it's a bit of a "tourist destination" in the atlas-obscura sense.. It was a very weird place. Roads were buckled everywhere, smoke was coming out of cracks.. enitire neighborhoods were abandoned and houses missing, etc.
- nine_k 3y agoThat's exactly the kind of place where shooting video from a drone is likely the best way of reporting.
- i_am_jl 3y ago>I stopped by Centralia on a road trip, it's a bit of a "tourist destination" in the atlas-obscura sense. Word is that old Rt 61 was covered with dirt during early 2020 to stop people going out there during Covid. AFAIK the rest of the stuff you mention is still there.