Floppie's Blag » centralia http://www.quadra-tec.net/~floppie/blag Entertainment, technology, and lulz Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:19:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Centralia ’09 http://www.quadra-tec.net/~floppie/blag/2009/06/centralia-09/ http://www.quadra-tec.net/~floppie/blag/2009/06/centralia-09/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:22:18 +0000 Floppie http://www.quadra-tec.net/~floppie/blag/?p=396 Yesterday, me and The Crew (TM) went up to Centralia again. For those who don’t know, Centralia, PA is the town that the original Silent Hill was based on. Back in the early 60s, one of the coal mines below the town caught fire – the exact cause and date are unknown, but naturally there are a few theories. They made numerous attempts to put out the fire during the 60s and 70s, but nothing was successful, because once coal catches it’s really easy for it to keep burning…and, conversely, pretty difficult to stop it.

In any case, in 1984, the town was evacuated; and, in 1992, the state of Pennsylvania took over all the property in the borough through eminent domain. Then in 2002, the town’s ZIP code, 17927, was revoked. A handful of people still live there – 11 according to the 2008 census – but the government owns their land, and I guess just hasn’t forced them to leave.

Naturally, this place is now a bit of a mecca for tourists looking for cool places to visit. There’s an abandoned stretch of highway, closed because there’s coal burning below it and the road surface is all warped; a few real cool graveyards; a couple abandoned buildings; etc. There’s graffiti all over the abandoned highway and buildings; between the six of us, we got tons of pictures. Here are links to theirs:

And here are mine – sorry for the poor quality, they were taken from my phone:
Shh.... I'm A Dinosaur Albie...the racist dragon? WTF, who told Anon about Centralia? "fuck"...and the beginning of some emo poem ...and the rest of that emo poem lolfurries Want good head? Call that number! Dunno who Meem is, but this person hearts them. O lawd, a cock monster~ ...and a snowman - snowwoman? - monster...getting cocked~ This is what's making the ground so hot...not the massive coal fire spewing noxious fumes out the fissure next to it STOP, no fags~ Sweet, this batarang will protect us from the zombies This person was in love...WITH DICK~ But I wasn't there in 2008 =/ Shit, it's been almost three years since the zombie hunters have been here Long guy is long One guy's AIM screen name was Zan0war Oh Jesus, it's a scary wall face I don't know who you are, but you're in Centralia, PA BITCH! This ghost is pretty scary too >.> O lawd, this bleeding eye is ALWAYS WATCHING me This rope hanging from the rafters of the abandoned building was sufficiently creepy Oh shit, better leave That scary wall face ate Pimp ...and Tristan, but like a little sideways ...and Mike, but he's pissing in it K A sweet little red lizard that we found - which, as it turns out, is called a "red eft" Red Eft 2 Windmills on the horizon...can't really see them well though =/ A nice scenic view from atop a quarry-like hill The left half of this puddle is evil It's a damn good thing this air freshener was here to keep these woods smelling nice I'm really glad we stopped in the middle of the road to take a picture of this bench that I can't read

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