Ghost of BiB Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 May give cause to using that phrase. House eats man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 That sucks. Wonder if the wife has mineral rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyBall4Buffalo Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Hmm shouldn't this man and his wife have known this before they got the house. I'm sure they werent going around saying "Hey I know this house is built ontop of an old mine but this is just a killer good house" "Is my house going to cave in and eat me" just seems like something I'd like to know beforehand to avoid tragic accidents like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevbeau Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 See what happens when you watch too much porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of BiB Posted April 24, 2006 Author Share Posted April 24, 2006 Hmm shouldn't this man and his wife have known this before they got the house. I'm sure they werent going around saying "Hey I know this house is built ontop of an old mine but this is just a killer good house" "Is my house going to cave in and eat me" just seems like something I'd like to know beforehand to avoid tragic accidents like this. 669199[/snapback] I'm guessing with it's history, California might have a lot of undocumented mines from the 1800's. If nothing else, they are a staple of made for SCI-FI channel movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of BiB Posted April 25, 2006 Author Share Posted April 25, 2006 Hmmm...conspiracy? East coast yards are on the attack, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 Hmmm...conspiracy? East coast yards are on the attack, too. 669935[/snapback] I resided in SW Pa. - Pgh area 1978 - late 1989. Subsidence was a common occurance, what with the couple of centuries of coal mining. One buys specific insurance coverage against it. There was a huge incident along the west bank of the Mongahelia river. The abandoned Black Diamond mine - which was filled with acid mine drainage (there is a bacterium - ferridoxins thiobacillus (sp) - that thrives on the iron and sulfur in the seams and frees the pollution) burst and was flowing thousands of gallons per minute into the town. Many bandit mines, plus "robbing" of the pillars. I had a co-worker who when he purchased his property, also had to pay for the value of the coal pillar a couple of hundred feet under the property. There is also the problem of underground seam fires - CO percolates up into your domicile. 35 or so years ago, there was a seam fires in an eastern Pa town named Centrailia. A colorful, crooked politician named Daniel Flood wheedled federal intervention to have the resident's houses bought by the feds. I think that was the ground breaker, with buyouts like Times Beach MO - dioxin, and Love Canal etc. becoming a trend. The inside dope was that numerous residents there would let rags smoulder in their basement to drive up CO levels, so they would get the buyout $$$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheRocks Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 If I'm lying..., May the earth open up and swallow me. did you nickname your hot neighbor lady, "earth"??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of BiB Posted April 25, 2006 Author Share Posted April 25, 2006 did you nickname your hot neighbor lady, "earth"??? 670081[/snapback] Everyone here is a flaming liberal democrat. Things get interesting. I'm the only semi-conservative within 5 blocks. For some reason, raving about the evil George Bush and telling me the evil of my ways gets them horny. I don't understand it, nor do I care to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheRocks Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 i wonder what they would like to do to an "evil conservative"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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