Wowww

i’ve been listening to this podcast, Stuff You Should Know, from Discovery’s HowStuffWorks.com.  Hoping to be able to listen to a little something while i performed some more mundane tasks on the computer, i checked out the Web site for the first time (until now i just downloaded the podcasts through iTunes).  First of all, this is an awesome Web site full of fabulous things that, whether you should know or not, you will no doubt find fascinating and exciting.  Of these, i found particularly interesting an article on modern abandoned cities.  Eerie.  But of these the most incredible by far is the story of Centralia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., which was all but deserted in 1981 after nearly 20 years of efforts to put out an underground coal fire were abandoned.  Read the story, complete with sink holes, noxious fumes, and, did i mention, an underground fire! here:

http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/abandoned-city5.htm

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