Time Capsule, Centralia, Pennsylvania

[Dalia]

This Abandoned Ghost Town show that nature is the most powerful thing that exist. i give a link so you could see the story of the town with a time capsule .

Abandoned Ghost Town – Centralia, Pennsylvania – Exploration Project

 

[Marion Morrison]

My friend's kid is into that. He bought him a spotlight for Christmas.


Gah! It's "pique" numbnuts!

 

[Marion Morrison]

How can they not put out a fire in that amount of time?

 

[Dalia]

it's a result of the coal mine fire which has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia, which is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area, is the least-populated municipality in Pennsylvania. It is completely surrounded by Conyngham Township.
All real estate in the borough was claimed under eminent domain in 1992 and therein condemned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Centralia's ZIP code was discontinued by the Postal Service in 2002.State and local officials reached an agreement with the seven remaining residents on October 29, 2013, allowing them to live out their lives there, after which the rights to their houses will be taken through eminent domain.

 

[Marion Morrison]

it's a result of the coal mine fire which has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia, which is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area, is the least-populated municipality in Pennsylvania. It is completely surrounded by Conyngham Township.
All real estate in the borough was claimed under eminent domain in 1992 and therein condemned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Centralia's ZIP code was discontinued by the Postal Service in 2002.State and local officials reached an agreement with the seven remaining residents on October 29, 2013, allowing them to live out their lives there, after which the rights to their houses will be taken through eminent domain.

Yeah but, couldn't they divert a stream or something into the mine?

 

[Crick]

Maybe the Ohio river.

 

[Dalia]

it's a result of the coal mine fire which has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia, which is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area, is the least-populated municipality in Pennsylvania. It is completely surrounded by Conyngham Township.
All real estate in the borough was claimed under eminent domain in 1992 and therein condemned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Centralia's ZIP code was discontinued by the Postal Service in 2002.State and local officials reached an agreement with the seven remaining residents on October 29, 2013, allowing them to live out their lives there, after which the rights to their houses will be taken through eminent domain.

Yeah but, couldn't they divert a stream or something into the mine?

Maybe at that time they could not do anything? not like today