[Wife of D28Man]

We live a couple of hours south of Centralia and have checked it out from time to time over the past 20 years. It used to be very dramatic, with eerie scifi plumes of smoke rising out of the wasteland of dead forest. Lately it hasn’t been that dramatic - only a puff here or there that looks like someone’s poorly-extinguished campfire. The ghost town is a haunting experience, though: empty town blocks with the occasional stand-alone rowhouse guarding pale memories of families long gone. And very, very quiet.

[Gondring]

Yeah, the rowhomes standing alone, with the braces installed to replace the support previously given by adjacent units, are odd. They are nearly all gone now.

[Gondring]

From Bing Maps:

Looking east. Braces on the standalone rowhome on left; a smoldering area and cemetery to right (south).

[kearnyirish2]

That does sound creepy; the whole “ground collapsing” thing is a real deterrent to me taking the kids there.