Wow, i found this from the airplane today. we got over 10 inches of rain in the last 3 days and have some serious flooding problems, water going in the pa tunnel, river overflowing its banks in scranton and olyphant. its pretty bad. anyways up in carbondale they have their own problem. seems when the highway (rt 6) was built in the 90s they channeled the runoff water into the mines there. so with all this rain it all built up and a shaft cap pretty much exploded from the pressure and for a while water was shooting out of this 8 foot square air shaft. now its slowed down to just running out of it but the flow is still estimated at 100,000 gal per hour! its pretty sick, flooding all of carbondale, dozens of houses flooded and many streets as this happened in a back yard up on a hill. so bob and i went to check on it and heres the story. the moral is put amr stickers on your vehicle!
got to carbondale to the blocked off road. told the traffic cop we are with amr documenting the subsidence, he said ok sir ill move the baracade and go up the hill take a right and its on your left in a yard. just follow the water. so i said ok, as we drove away laughing. there was sooo much water in the road we had to drive in the center cause you couldnt see the sides and it was washed out 3-4 feet deep. boulders all over the place. so we got to the top and this guy, (who we later found out was the chief of police) is like how did you guys get up here, didnt you see the baracade and all that water. just as i was about to open my mouth he spots the amr on the window of yellow. he says, oh im sorry sir, abandoned mines, its about time you guys showed up. here park over here. so we were about to blast through the water when this yahoo in a pt cruiser comes flying up behind us and almost rear ends us. the cop starts yelling at him. he really reamed him out but he blasted off. well the cop had some other guys cut him off and gave him 3 tickets for like reckless endangerment, reckless driving and driving too fast for road conditions. it was funny. he was telling him he almost rear ended some important people.... us. that was funny. so we park where he told us to then said, cmon fallow me ill take you to the mouth of the problem. we walked through this yard and up to the shaft. theres like 100 people watching all of this. we took lots of pics and then the cop said, hey the mayor is on his way up and wants to talk to you guys. so we waited around and shot the shit with him for a bit. he is cool he is only 27. so he was asking what we are going to do, if we fix it or what. we said osm will take care of the problem, we document this kind of thing since no one else does for home owners to have pics for insurance purposes. so then he took me to the home owners. they said its good we took shots since no one else thought to and wouldnt until the water went down then they wouldnt see the damage. so we exchanged info and i told them if they need any copies of the pics to get a hold of me and ill get them to them. it was cool, we were the authorities there. we really sounded good, i guess we know what we are talking about after all. so we plugged osm and told them they do a good job fixing stuff and i guess they were already there a few hours before us. see now we all need amr graphics on our vehicles.
and the pictures.......
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