Risky Business

We enjoyed fish and coleslaw last night. But don’t feel like fighting….

3 Good Things About Waking at 4:30 AM

1. Strolling before sunrise
2. No siren activity
3. The Sounds of Silence (maybe a dog barking)

And knowing that Gerald Carnahan will go down. In more ways than one. His first court appearance is at 9:00 AM today. We’re sending love signals to the family of Jackie Johns. Bill Johns is 80 years old, Jackie’s mother died two years after the murder. Grief ate her alive.

KY went to the archives and dug out the old video, Jackie’s blood spattered Camaro, and….Leann Gregg. Today, there’s maybe four people in the newsroom that were at the station in the 80’s. That’s pretty good.

This is for the locos. Remember these girls?

Circa 2003.

And those crazy coal miners in Utah. Pray for their safety.

Today’s deep thought:

1600 ft. underground.

Four miles from the exit.

Air quality is good…no methane.

Update: they’ve supposedly drilled through to a pocket where they are supposedly located….. no sounds of life.

Utah is using the room and pillar technique. “It’s the most dangerous type of mining that there is,” said Tony Oppegard, a mining lawyer and former federal mine safety official.

As opposed to using the safer power mining technique, Longwall mining is a method that dislodges such tremendous volume of earth with such force that it causes quake activity.

What happens is after they’ve cleaned out a vein and move through the mountain, pulling supports, set up and start the process all over the mountain can collapse. The ultimate power tool. You can move mountains!

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