January 02, 2006

Miner's Prayer

Hopefully these miners in West Virginia survived the explosion and will be got to soon. I was so convinced the Quecreek miners were goners, but up they came.

UPDATE:
This is what passes for hip and clever nowadays. The men who are trapped are West Virginia coalminers; it's not like doing a dangerous job and now being in deadly peril makes them rate. Why, I bet not a one of them even knows how to Photoshop! Work on your skillz, hillbillies.

After drilling holes and venting out the gasses from the explosion, a rescue crew has finally entered the mine.

UPDATE II:
They've interviewed some of the Quecreek miners, and they're hoping, but not thinking, that this is going to turn out very well. Only one of the nine ever went back into a mine again.
The air quality tests run so far have returned with bad results, but the hope is they've found an area with fresh air and barricaded themselves in.

Posted by floridacracker at January 2, 2006 12:53 PM