tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483143481224034343.post8989504160955238983..comments2023-10-15T13:50:42.427-07:00Comments on From "Me" to "Mandy": Down the Home Stretch...Mandy Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01547323395921637440noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483143481224034343.post-21499537035331238012016-09-21T13:06:57.053-07:002016-09-21T13:06:57.053-07:00Thanks, Pat,
visiting Centralia was a sobering r...Thanks, Pat, <br /><br />visiting Centralia was a sobering reminder of days past. I recall hearing about it back in the 60's when the fire broke out, but never visited back then. I should have, but didn't.<br /><br />When we were doing a car tour in the Corning, NY area a few years back, one of the places we thought we might want to stay was in Wellsboro, PA (out in the middle of nowhere.) Lovely, well-kept town. Found out that the room prices were so high, because of all of the workers for the companies doing fracking in PA...<br /><br />So we stayed elsewhere.<br /><br />All I'll say about coal and fracking is that we should be using all American natural resources available for making power, instead of intentionally doing things which pollute the air and water, and may be causing earthquakes (many insurance companies exclude earthquake damage in homeowner policies). <br /><br />Our excellent scientists should be figuring out a way to clean up the effects of using coal and fracking, so that they don't pollute or cause other ill effects, which offset the benefits of using them.<br /><br />And if we did conscientiously did that, we wouldn't have to send so much money overseas to buy foreign oil and oil products... <br /><br />You're right, I probably did switch back to "normal" too soon. But at that moment, with my ears pinching a bit, and the boys in the car behind me gone for a while, I just did it. Another couple of girlie hours was rather insignificant, compared to the rest of the wonderful weekend I already had!<br /><br />Mandy<br /><br />Mandy Shermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01547323395921637440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6483143481224034343.post-36227201550493470572016-09-21T07:37:14.639-07:002016-09-21T07:37:14.639-07:00I think that there are several long burning underg...I think that there are several long burning underground fires throughout coal country but you description of the former burgh of Centralia is well written and a good history lesson. As kids we would often visit an old army buddy of my dad's time in Okinawa in WWII and there was a coal area near Scranton/Dunmore that was always smoking. It is sad that the current administration had put so many good American coal miners and businesses out of work. It will really be the death knell for them if Clinton is elected. Fortunately, parts of Pa are doing OK with fracking. This has been denied to upstate NY and many businesses and people up there are just hanging on hoping that our government sees the benefit of fracking for this energy.<br />I think that you may have taken off the girl clothes too soon. I have gone on many business trips where I drove the long road home fully dressed and did not stop to change until I was within a few miles of home.<br />PatPat Scaleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00148601231866277374noreply@blogger.com