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I’ve gotten to see it happen first hand. As of 2008, the last mines in operation in a certain part of Virginia closed up shop. It was the towns lifeblood, and the place was already on the poor side.
I saw families who lost their livelihoods. Was almost one of them, lucked out that my dad knew how to do other things. Wasn’t that way for the kids who went to college for electrical engineering, went into the mines, and suddenly had nowhere else.
In the middle of Bumfuck, Nowhere, lived some of the most ass backwards but intelligent people I’ve ever met. I can point out the graves of the ones who got hit the hardest, and decided there wasn’t an up. I can remember exactly how old they were. We went to school together.
I don’t agree with mining, it’s destructive, the effects of mining and burning coal are terrible, but it kills me to remember how it all went down. We did the right thing, but in the worst way possible.
You should read Gray Mountain by John Grisham.
I’m not sure if it’s fact or fiction, but it touches briefly on the great financial crisis and coal mining in that area.
I’ve gotten to see it happen first hand. As of 2008, the last mines in operation in a certain part of Virginia closed up shop. It was the towns lifeblood, and the place was already on the poor side.
I saw families who lost their livelihoods. Was almost one of them, lucked out that my dad knew how to do other things. Wasn’t that way for the kids who went to college for electrical engineering, went into the mines, and suddenly had nowhere else.
In the middle of Bumfuck, Nowhere, lived some of the most ass backwards but intelligent people I’ve ever met. I can point out the graves of the ones who got hit the hardest, and decided there wasn’t an up. I can remember exactly how old they were. We went to school together.
I don’t agree with mining, it’s destructive, the effects of mining and burning coal are terrible, but it kills me to remember how it all went down. We did the right thing, but in the worst way possible.