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SWBTATTReg

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4. Interesting. I'll have to look it up. Seems like in Joplin, we had on a regularly scheduled basis, various

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Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:26 PM

Dec 28

mineshafts collapse. The big thing was if they collapsed on a building site (which they did, a church was building, and encountered a mineshaft, there went the 3rd floor, so the building ended up being only two floors instead of 3. They still finished the building there too, which surprised me, but they did say they poured a whole lot of concrete into the hole, the now 2 story building vs. the planned 3 story. I am sure that they still continue to have mineshafts collapse down there (in Joplin).

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Ahhh, those dreaded mineshafts!! When I grew up in Joplin MO, we had a big issue w/ collapsing mineshafts. SWBTATTReg Dec 28 #1

There is a national map of sinkholes NJCher Dec 28 #2

Interesting. I'll have to look it up. Seems like in Joplin, we had on a regularly scheduled basis, various SWBTATTReg Dec 28 #4

That's both NJCher Dec 29 #6

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I posted previously on D.U. about my great-grandmother who died after falling into an abandoned mineshaft 3Hotdogs Dec 28 #5

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