@peemee Definitely an early app.net vibe so far. A good thing.
@peemee There's an art to cooking gator so it doesn't come out that way. I've had some that was fantastic and much more that was borderline inedible
// @indigo @kdfrawg
@indigo I'm sure it's fine now. There's just no financial reason to rebuild. You're either going to go to Parkersburg and hope to be employed by DuPont or Public Debt (They process a gigantic chunk of federal tax returns) or move to a place with better prospects.
One of the first revelations I had leaving town and going out of state was, "OMG Other places have jobs"
// @kdfrawg
@indigo Oil. Coal and low oxygen. Underground fires like that can smolder for a long long time.
// @kdfrawg
@indigo What's amazing tis that, when I was very little (Early 1970s) there were still some areas outside of where the town itself used to be, underground, that still smoldered and burned. Smoke would rise from the ground. Absolutely nothing of the original town remains. The only residents live in the outskirts. Not even sure what city they are considered part of since Volcano itself is no longer a city. Probably Parkersburg (My hometown)
// @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg I feel for my relatives fleeing the potato famine only to find themselves slaves to mining companies and railroads in one of the poorest areas of the US.
// @indigo
@indigo Wow..It has a wikipedia page. I had no idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano,_West_Virginia
// @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg West Virginia has had one huge hard time since the late 1920s.
The area I came from was given the double whammy by the demise of riverboats and the depression. To the east, a place called Volcano was very rich in oil and natural gas. A mine fire started and managed to burn for many decades. Town shrank from many thousands to a few hundred. Just one hard luck story after another.
// @indigo
@larand Which would make me feel better about humanity's imminent demise.
// @sumudu @jextxadore