Vulcan Materials Rock Quarry on Fortson Rd, near Columbus. It has since been shutdown. Looks like the small pond at the bottom of the quarry kept growing. LOL,
Like a whale
Gee, ya think it might have to do with the 'strip' mining going on right next to the chunk about to slide?
A few people living above it have been evacuated,it,is expected to slide into the quarry,worst case is it reaches the Yakima river and covers I82,no town is in danger.
Ed
I worked at a Rock Quarry in Georgia owned by Vulcan Materials years ago. It was like 30 miles from Columbus Ga. I was a welder and over all repairman for them. I worked all night fixing things that needed repairs. Belts, Shuts, Trucks, etc. etc. Rocks wear 1/4 and 1/2 sheets of steel down pretty quickly.
I went to work at 5 pm and checked things out to see what repairs needed to be done. The quarry shut down at 6 pm. me and a couple other guys had till they started them up again at 7 am to fix things. Usually we finished things by 2 or 3 am, but there were time the Quarry could not start up till 10 am or even noon if their was a can of worms we discovered.
Anyway, these places have workers 24/7. I know that if I was down inside one of the shootes closing off a whole that allowed different sized rocks to mix, I would be screwed the moment that landslide happened. It would take me 15 minutes just to get in and then out. I was the smallest guy in the crew and thus I got all the fun of climbing inside the difficult places.
The horror stories I could tell about those times.
If I were the workers, I be for demanding an increase in my life insurance policy funded by the company.
This is all because of global warming, ain’t it!
If this acreage is named Rattlesnake Hill, there must be Rattlesnakes lurking about the basalt trying to stay warm. The article does not show any agency concerned with the ultimate demise of these unfortunate reptiles who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Are the Socialists in the area aware of this disaster in the making? What can be done?
Money should not be a barrier to prompt movement of these poor snakes to a more safe environment where they can live out their lives under government oversight, with free medical coverage, free tuition, free housing, free wine from local wineries, etc. Let’s plan a march and demonstration for the coming weekend..... /s
I moved there in ‘75, but left in ‘78. So I’m pretty sure that it’s #not my fault