Sinking Towns
Sunday, January 28th, 2007A town in Oklahoma is at risk from cave-ins due to extensive mining. Crazy. Its obsolescence on the scale of a town. Find a mine, build a town, and in time you pollute/destroy the area so much that no one can live there. But by then the mine is closed, and few people want to live there anyways. Wasteful if you ask me. Never mind the damage done to the planet, how much does it cost to build a city that won’t be used in 20 years?
My high school is sinking. At a rate of 0.5-1cm a year. A lack of forethought with the foundation (its built on a filled in swamp). Rather than correct the problem, they took to patching the cracks in the walls each year till the building is depreciated and they can build another.