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Adam Courier It’s always a rare treat to hear the behind the scenes lives of the miner’s day to day life and how they passed the time. Thank you, fine Sir(s).
SQU1DL0053R RU-vid completely changed the algorithms with their recent “clean up”, giving you the content THEY want you to see. I am subscribed to a ton of channels. Yet none of those channels, or similar channels that I actually would like, are in my recommended like they use to be. Just non-important time wasting videos mixed with heavy one sided political propaganda.
Mal Arie bruh maybe for you but for me RU-vid gives me specific shit like-I watch a flipping beetlejuice animatic and RU-vid suggest me shit with someone just *s a y i n g* beetlejuice- and a heck ton more beetlejuice stuff. Like bruh no stop I watched one thing about it-
xHeyIm Funnex the reason they did so was because red clay is incredibly common in our lakes and overall dirt! Even in clean water, seeing red water is still normal in many places here.
Imagine dieing a horrible death from lead poisoning then like 23 years later when your a ghost you just see some dude walk into your house with a camera
I think this illustrates one major point - look around you. If something in your environment doesn't look right, investigate it. Go to the media. Disrupt the comfortable. Don't assume the government or the corporations know everything or have your best interest at heart. They can't and don't.
fona mcjimmyjimmy not all activists are really doing anything good. For example- PETA isnt really doing anything to help animals, but theyre still out there. Anti vaxxers probably consider themselves activists and theyre child murderers.
RU-vidbot True. The scientists need to start speaking out more. But the problem is the media puts out so much fake news and twists the truth so much it almost doesn't matter. It's sad really
@fona mcjimmyjimmy exactly! then later on down the road comes the "duh" moment. No one wants to hear it. Shame on them. Complacency kills. Oh well, except for perhaps the uber rich (see current nanotech) we'll all end up in the same place eventually.
There's a red lake about 50 miles away from where I live and the reason is because of large iron deposits so it's not only same but in the past seen as a health cure
@High Overlord Snarffie Beagle None of that is awesome. It's pure negligence. I don't care how many tornadoes you've experienced, you have a baby. Get the kid to safety, THEN gawk at your impending death.
I never knew the history here. My grandmother was born in Commerce and lived there pretty much her entire life. She always talked about Picher and Miami as places she'd go and have a good time. She was diagnosed with cancer in 85% of her body in 1991 and died 30 days later. The doctors blamed her smoking. She told me before she died that she knew it wasn't smoking that did it, no matter what they said. After reading about the Picher superfund site, which includes the towns of Quapaw, Commerce, Cardin, and Miami, I think maybe she was right. It wasn't the cigarettes...
Reminds me of a friend of my father's, he was a diesel tech and spent decades inhaling the fumes from those motors. He was later diagnosed with lung cancer. Of course because he smoked for a few years they blamed that and ignored the influence from decades of inhaling diesel fumes.
That's the funny thing about my grandpa as well, he worked for years at Mason-Dixon truck maintenance, diesel mechanic, later worked at the parts counter/warehouse. I know grandpa smoked in his younger days, I don't know how much, but he died of lung cancer at 74(sad because he was a very active/fit man until he got sick) I also kind of wonder if all that diesel smoke had something to do with it, I know one of his jobs was running trucks on the dynometer(how well ventilated was that back in the 1960's??). He told me a funny story about doing that job on 3rd shift, he fell asleep behind the wheel for a bit running the truck up to speed on the dyno, woke up, you know truck screaming, foot to the floor, brick wall 10' feet in front of him, scared him to death, said he jumped out of the truck thinking he was driving into the wall.
I would trust the doctors before I'd trust the words of your grandmother, not to insult her but, how would she "know" it's not the cigarettes as opposed to the doctors testing.
Louie Pooh - Somehow I doubt the doctors proclaimed that cancer across 85% of her body was caused by cigarettes. Me thinks we're not getting the full story.
I live in a similar situation. Here in Parkersburg West Virginia. Chemical plant dumped C8 into our water. Cancers are everywhere, I lost my thyroid to it... Water isn't safe here
Ericha, DuPont? They knew about the toxins and it’s effects on people way before they changed their chemicals and they did nothing to correct it. Corporate America! Everyone on this planet has this chemical in their blood. It is a chemical used in making nonstick surfaces like Teflon. It’s also used in other products, but Teflon was probably marketed more.
I grew up near a coal cooking plant. When the factory closed in 1972, they just dug hole on the ground and put ton's of coal tar and other nasty stuff on it. Needless to say the rate of cancer in my little town is crazy.
The same story all around the world. That is, why they seperate us in Nations, Religions.....because we shall never know, that we are ONE. If we will really understand some day, that we are ONE, we will blow them away. Please excuse my english, I am german.
Yeah not buying that Sikander.....if you actually read up on the history of how lead was added to gasoline, they knew ahead of time the stuff was dangerous. They simply hid or minimized accidents like that one lead spill right before TEL was used in gas. Its also telling that the crime rate dropped after lead was phased out.
You would think it would just be common sense that the toxic mining waste pile was toxic. 3 generations of lead poisoning is a good way to produce morons.
This is one of the saddest stories I ever heard... The mining industry knew how dangerous it was. Don’t ever think they didn’t. I’m surprised that they were allowed the testing of the children... Oklahoma has more toxic waste then one or two towns here and there. Thank you for sharing. My heart goes out to all the victims. I too was exposed to radioactive materials in Clinton Oklahoma. All the state did was to flatten the building I worked in and dump the whole thing down by the railroad tracks near the industrial park. I personally was rendered childless. The people I worked for are sick too. Here’s the kicker though. The state knew about the dangers. Heck the government knew the dangers. What was the building used for? Painting airplane gages back in the 1940’s. How did they know? Because they had to close down the same company in New Jersey because the woman that painted the lettering on the gages were exposed to the radium which would make the gages read in a dark environment got all kinds of cancers. True story
The final resident,[disputed ] Gary Linderman, owner of the Ole Miner Pharmacy, died on June 9, 2015, at the age of 60 from a sudden illness, which officially made Picher a ghost town and brought its population to 0. (From Wikipedia) 😢
I have a history in Picher, OK. My father-in-law's parents lived there and we would go have holiday family get togethers there often. We played on the chat piles, rode ATV's on the chat piles, swam in the water next to the chat piles and in the creek,we had picnics on the chat piles, and so many other things. I now have terrible complications of Crohn's Disease and five other autoimmune diseases. I've been told by doctors at the Mayo Clinic that they believe my severe diseases were triggered by my exposure to Picher, OK. I'm now 53 years old and don't expect to live to be 60.
I'm not personally tied to this tragedy, but I think it's sad when people have to leave behind the things they worked so hard on, and I can't help but think about the people who might've lived there and stumbled across this video. How would it feel to know your home that's only a wasteland now, and see someone walk through the doors of your fondest memories. I don't know, it's just depressing to me
I understand what you're saying. I put myself in their shoes and was thinking, "oh, that's where (x) happened and where we used to (do that thing)." it's sad.
Ksureme That‘s what I thought! When my dad divorced my mom he moved into our old home with his new (now wife) and we were kicked out, that alone was a horrible feeling. I was not allowed in my old room because her son now lived in it. Humans can be absolutely gross
I live in Oklahoma. It’s the strangest town ever. Very creepy. Tornadoes are a very real danger to us here in Oklahoma. I’ve rode out 3 myself. I know that fear of the man talking in the video. Also, we have red dirt here and people did not think anything of the banks of the river being orange because of that. Dan, there are many places here in Oklahoma I would love you to film. You are so good at what u do!!
Jeremy Johnson There is a bridge in I believe Oklahoma City, Oklahoma called Kitchen Lake Bridge. It’s pretty interesting. People believe a witch used to live there so a bunch of paranormal stuff happens when you drive there. Although it’s tornado season right now so you may wanna check the weather before going
It's a superfund site. Meaning, not in your lifetime. The "superfund" part of superfund site pertains to how expensive it is to fix up a piece of land. In order to fix the ground itself, you have to dig up about 3-5 feet of the dirt, put it into barrels, and ship it off to have it disposed of properly. Everything has to be leveled in order for the town to become live-able again. It's incredibly cost-prohibitive in the present to fix up any superfund site, not just the town of Picher. The only way I see fixing up Picher to be cost-effective is if the population problem gets way out of hand. Most of our people seem to live near metropolitan areas with less people living in the boonies. It would be a long time until the land becomes more valuable than the work it takes to get the land. So I think it's safe to say the grandchildren of your grandchildren still wouldn't see Picher restored to it's previous glory.
I grew up in the late 60s just a few miles northeast of Picher, the chat piles were everywhere back then. I remember our driveway that went around our house was paved with chat. My grandfather worked in the lead mines in the area and previously had worked mines near Libby MT where my father grew up as a child. It's a superfine site for asbestos. It's no wonder I guess that members of my family that remained in that area are being diagnosed with rare and horrible cancers. I was back living there when the Tornadoes struck in Picher and in Joplin a few years later. Enough was enough finally moved back to Colorado only to discover that I'm just a few miles from another superfund site that is potentially the worst of them all. Rocky flats. I guess we're all going to die eventually, no one gets out alive. Sad what the human race is willing to do for profit.
Oh, I doubt anything could be worse than Libby or Centralia -- those two sites are the most infamous sites for any of us who've read about Superfund sites. But yeah, those sites seem to be everywhere -- hell, there's one not too far away from the neighborhood I lived in as a high schooler and well into my twenties! Maybe three, four miles away, that's it. But thankfully it never impacted me personally. I'm relieved about that.
I want to move from England to the mountains of Tennessee. I looked at various properties online but then thought "Ooh that's a bit close to Oak Ridge".. Then I remembered I'm half an hour away from Britain's collection of old, rotting nuclear submarines (I don't think we've ever actually scrapped one) but I sleep at night. Nowhere's safe from people who don't give a shit about you really.
I grew up near a coal cooking plant. When the factory closed in 1972, they just dug hole on the ground and put ton's of coal tar and other nasty stuff on it. Needless to say the rate of cancer in my little town is crazy.
it was all over the news in america during the time, don't think it was outside of america. There has also been plenty of tv spacial it, like history channel and more.
Cynthia Schwab Oklahoma is never really in National news. We just recently underwent the worst flood in three decades, and no one talked about it. We aren’t a popular state by any means
I've always found abandoned towns the creepiest. Knowing people lived their lives their and created memories there and now those memories are nothing but distant frames in time and the town is free of any living life even after it was full of life so long ago really freaks me out. It's crazy.
Its truly horrifying. And even more scary is the fact that one day. All the cities on Earth will be like this. And all the traces of humanity will be lost to time. Thoughts like this keep me up for hours at night sometimes.
I was going to agree and say that things like this just remind us very matter-of-factly of our own mortality, but you did it so much better. It's kept me up at night too, since I was in elementary school.
You should look up the town on Google Earth. It is literally surrounded by those massive piles of chat. I thought they were clouds that got in the way of the photos. Nope.
Normally not from the government as this "dead zone" was caused by a private corporation. The only way these people get paid is through a large lawsuit of some kind
My guess is that the company waited for people to die. The longer the case goes on, the more people die and they don't have to pay anything. I guess if they don't pay, the people affected can't afford medical help, so they die quicker. Not easier, but eventually. You know, until recently I thought this was only done in the past, to people in third-world countries, out of ignorance. Then I started reading. It's evil how it is still going on. For money.
@@FurnitureFan this is America. You know full well that they do exactly what you're talking about. Glad that you know. Not many people are aware of how these things go.
I live in Oklahoma and the really sad part about the whole tar Creek incident is that in most of Oklahoma the dirt is red so they wouldn't immediately associate the water changing color as toxic, thy probably would think that there was something up stream that was stirring up soil, hell we Evan have a river called "red river"
I was about to ask why nobody thought that the red water might be dangerous. Most people wouldn't dare swim in discoloured water. Thanks for the explanation.
The dirt in North East Oklahoma is not red (which is where Pitcher is located) So the water turning red should have made they think twice about it but hey what do you expect when all these people have had lead poisoning for so long?
@@Zexi141 You worthless tool, they're all corrupt regardless of the D or R next to their name. Your level of ignorance is the problem with this Government.
Picher’s story breaks my heart. Seeing all the trashed buildings, the piles of toxins that destroyed this town. All these people once lived there, once thrived there, and no everything is just- gone. I can’t imagine how it was like for the townspeople of Picher, and I hope stuff like this gets talked about more and resolved.
I see you found my old place at 405 S. Francis. We never got a chance to retrieve everything after we bought a house and moved to Quapaw, the next town over. Came back and the place was completely trashed.
In college in the early 90s, I had a chemistry class at a nearby college, and we did a site survey of Picher creek, and the mines around it. Our water samples were tested for lead, but we couldn't get a reading, the testing equipment was overloaded, so we had to dilute it to get an estimate. A sounding line we used to test one of the flooded mine shafts ran out at 500 feet, and came back up bright red-orange. Cadmium levels in some our samples were 6x safe levels.
Andrew Putnam humans think life can’t continue if we as a species aren’t here but that’s folly nature will fix this tragedy and heal all in good time long after humans are extinct
Truly so sad for all the families especially all the babies and children just to have their health stole from them because of chemicals in the water and ground just breaks my heart I hope every family was well paid for the suffering they insured even the kids. Grandkids and so on because they at least deserve that God bless them
This town is not only an absolutely picturesque representation of a real life version of some Fallout's environments (minus its radioactivity), but also reconfirmation that humans will never cease to impress with their truly amazing ignorance.
It's really eerie if you go to Google maps and look at it from above....huge piles of chat, houses, streets, no cars, no life... except that ONE guy, mowing the abandoned high school lawn.
Okay. If you go to Google maps, Pitcher, OK and you use street view to go north up Cornell Avenue, the view is from September 2016. But once you get to E 2nd street, it jumps back to March 2008. That was 2 months before the tornado and you can see what the downtown area looked like. Freaked me right the f**k out as I was meandering up the street and suddenly there were buildings there. Check it out, it's pretty cool!
+Heather H "Okay. If you go to Google maps, Pitcher, OK and you use street view to go north up Cornell Avenue, the view is from September 2016. But once you get to E 2nd street, it jumps back to March 2008." Sometimes the date on the map will automatically switch. However, just in case you were unaware, you can click on "street view" in the upper left hand corner and manually switch the dates between 2008, 2014, and 2016, provided that the little round "turn back" symbol is showing next to "street view" (sometimes it isn't available depending on your location on the map). After you do that, the little screen will change to that time and then all you have to do is click on the little magnifying glass to make your whole screen display that time. As implied, you may have been aware of this already. I just thought that I'd give you a tip in case you (or anyone else) wasn't.
Maru Ev Would they have the right cables to upload to a computer? unlikely, and would someone really upload such a video to the internet if it was found? unlikely.
population from wiki page>>The city was incorporated in 1918, and by 1920, Picher had a population of 9,726. Peak population occurred in 1926 with 14,252 residents and was followed by a gradual decline due to the decrease in mining activity, leaving Picher with only 2,553 by 1960
The mining was ramped up during WWII to make ammunition. I lived in Joplin, Mo in 93 and took care of a Hospice patient dying of Cancer in Picher. Most people had already left by that time except for a few hold outs. Creepy place!
@@theshawnatiom7918 that's ridiculous. All sand contain silica which can cause cancer and scarring of the lungs. Just because the end is white does not mean that it has anything to do with lead....
My uncle lived here when the tornado went through. His home was destroyed. I used to play on the chat piles as a kid. It’s crazy to see it this way now.
My parents grew up in Commerce, and they told me stories about them growing up near Picher. They told me almost everything mentioned in this video. They said almost everyone in the area slid down chat piles on old car hoods and sleds. Countless kids got hurt bad because of this. My parents suggested the town being a great place for my Fallout cosplay photoshoot haha.
Think of the generation Xers from 1984. They were the last generation to graduate from Picher Oklahoma. Now all the surviving former high schoolers have to hold their class reunions in another town in Oklahoma.
i grew up a few miles away from here! i was in middle school when the tornado hit and a friend of mine lost his life just outside of picher (a total of 20-some-odd folks died in and outside of picher). the city i live in is also a mining town but kept its chat waste outside of the city -- if you go to picher, chat piles are just there, in the middle of the town, as if they should be there. (related -- regardless of where chat was kept, the entire region of southeast kansas, southwest missouri, and northeast oklahoma is known for mining and everyone played on chat piles until discoveries said hey uh, thats uh........ REALLY toxic, dont do that. in hindsight, i dont know why anyone thought it was safe to do that.) i visited picher about a week after the tornado, it was very solemn and any residents who were too stubborn to leave before had picked up their shit and ran after the storm. it is, well, a ghost town now! a straight shot from where i live, a small drive but not too bad. trees look sad and shrubby, mobile homes thrown around, signs twisted like pretzels. i love your channel dan so watching this and hearing you were just a hop skip and a jump away from me was VERY... shocking i guess? it shouldnt be, it IS a ghost town, but still! thanks for covering such a bizarre place.
Pe Nis, you can’t become Autistic from lead poisoning. You can become _learning disabled_ from lead poisoning, but not Autistic. Oh, and what a wonderful username. 🙄
I read where the last graduating class was 2009 but the tornado hit in may of 2008 a year earlier and made it a ghost town. Did the students and faculty drive from other towns to finish out the last school year?
Wow! How truly terrible for all of these people! Do you have any idea how any of these children are doing today? Another big question I have is about all of these Superfund Site projects that were supposed to be cleaned years ago. Most of them as far as I have heard have not even been touched. We can thank our national government for that stuff! Thank you Dan for this great, that's very sad report. Peace to all!
This is why we need to keep companies and businesses accountable for what they are doing to people. It seems that money and profiting are more important that human beings lives. We need to change that.
What scares me most are that know and say nothing to make money. Concrete dust will fill you lungs forever till you suffocate and yet I've seen workers covered from head to toe with the dust. People in charge knew and offered a dust mask. I wonder if chat had the same effect when flyable? There are jobs not worth taking. Its hard to stand up to poverty.
That tornado footage at the beginning of the video,it messed me up. It’s just so bone chilling,baby screaming in the background. It just stays with me.
I live in Miami, Oklahoma. Right next to Picher. I've driven through the area a lot. It's interesting to see. People call it terrifying or whatever, but I guess I'm just so used to seeing it. If you go to Commerce, OK, you can find a giant flea market that has old Picher artifacts. Being newspaper clips, shirts, a marching band uniform, and even minerals found in the mines.
From Miami, live in Commerce now.. You know the saying, "if you k*ll someone and wanna get away w it, dump em in Picher.." This was talked about, I believe on the Jay Leno show years ago.
Interesting you mentioned that movie. Supposedly that 'story' came from a family that lived outside of Area 51 in the 60's. A LOT of atomic tests (900+) were done there. BTW.....Las Vegas is downhill from there.😨
You want to see tragic?Look up "Love Canal" in Niagara Falls,NY.I'd love to see a video of you going there.Abandoned,schools,houses etc. ,Toxic waste dumped in the "canal" poisoning the families that lived there. Many kids were born with birth defects and many people died later due to the contamination . I will never forget going there and seeing the ghost town it became.
Now the companies know better...they dump it straight into the acquifers so it's more difficult to detect. That's what happened in a few places, Toms River NJ, for example.
The entire ocean county area was screwed up. In Brick, there's a dump you take scrap to, or something, but it's a paved over chemical site. Lots of kids in brick were born autistic because of the water from the different treatment plants...then you have the cancer cluster. My gift, I was living in lakehurst navy housing from birth to 3years and our neighbor was born with muscular dystrophy and I am 80% deaf in one ear, and my leg muscles aren't as strong as a normal persons
This is the best video you have ever done. It was haunting yet poignant. I've been watching your stuff for some time and this is you at the top of your game. Outstanding.
Such a great video! I find it so bizarre that there isn't more public knowledge of towns like this, environmental health is not something to joke about!
Why is a newborn baby being allowed to grow up in a toxic SuperFund site? @2:09 you can clearly hear the blood-curdling scream of a very upset newborn as the tornado is approaching. This is so far up in Northeast OK, that it could affect nearby communities in both Kansas and even Missouri, especially with tornados and thunderstorms spreading dusty from those enormous mountains of chat. Worse still, Tar Creek runs from Kansas, all the way south through the middle of OK...right along many, many different towns and dumps into the Neosho River, which then empties into a number of lakes and, ultimately, the Arkansas River, which then flows further down into the Robert S. Kerr reservoir (still part of the Arkansas River), which then has many other creeks and rivers flowing off of it. As the name suggests, the Arkansas river then flows southeast through the entire state of Arkansas, along many other communities and even cities like Ft Smith, and dumps into the rather large Lake Dardanelle...which feeds many others creeks and waterways...and the Arkansas River continues as the largest passageway all the way over to Little Rock and further down to Pine Bluff, and all the way down to the Arkansas/Mississippi border and empties into the Mississippi River. From that point, in Missippi it continues to flow in and out of both Arkansas and Mississippi along the state borders, all the way down until it crosses into Louisiana alongside LA state highway 1, intertwined with the Mississippi/Louisiana border until it reaches the Vicksburg metropolitan area. From there, it flows back westward a bit, weaving back and forth, in and out of the states of Louisiana and Mississippi near, and sometimes on, the border all the way down until it hits the Three Rivers Wildlife Management area where, as the name suggests, the Mississippi branches into the Red River...seemingly through some kind of outflow channel...and that area of the Red River also seems to be an area of confluence with the Lower Old River and the Atchafalaya River, as well. The Atchafalaya River is fed from the Red River, which is partially fed from the Mississipi River (via the aforementioned outflow channel?), and runs from just northeast of Simsport flowing south, sandwiched between LA state highways 101 and 417, along many small communities, and further down along the westernmost border of the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge. Just north of US Interstate highway 10, the Atchafalaya River splits and branches off westward into many other small and medium waterways and various bayous and lakes, with the main branch of the river continuing on through the center of the Attakapas Island Wildlife Area. From there, the Atchafalaya River feeds into Yellow Bayou, Duck Lake, Flat Lake, Lake Palourde, and too many other smaller lakes, bayous, and waterways until it empties into Atchafalaya bay in the Gulf of Mexico. Going back up to the Three Rivers Wildlife Management area where we left the Lower Old River, branching off from the Red River just before the Atchafalaya River branch, it flows past Keller Lake and feeds back into the Mississippi River just below the furthest southeastern tip of Mississippi at the Louisiana border at the Red River Landing, adjacent to the Louisiana State Penitentiary. SIDENOTE: Who was the brilliant (sarcasm) LA politician who made the decision to build a penitentiary directly next to the largest transportation river in the entire US? As if that's not bad enough, did you have to build it in the one area that would leave 3/4 of the prison surrounded by that largest, major transportation waterway in the US? Could you have made it EASIER for drugs to be transported directly TO that State Penitentiary? Did anyone think of the fact that Canada is one of the largest points of entry for illicit drugs, and that the fastest, easiest, and least detected route might be DIRECTLY DOWN THE LARGEST TRANSPORTATION WATERWAY IN THE US? Are any of you connecting the dots, or are you all just self-absorbed narcissists who are too self-involved to care enough to ask these questions? I digress... Following the path of this toxic, highly acidic and chemically polluted water from Tar Creek near the northern Kansas border of Oklahoma and now all the way down the lower Mississippi River as it flows out of Mississippi and back into southern Louisiana at Tunica, slightly southeastward down to Southern University A & M College, the Exxon/Mobil Baton Rouge Refinery (no toxicity there/sarcasm), directly through the middle of Baton Rouge, past the campus of Louisiana State University, and continue southeastern all the way down through the greater Metairie-New Orleans metropolitan area where it continues southward 100 miles bisecting the Balize peninsula until it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. One has to wonder just how far all that chemically acid water travels...and how much damage it does to human, fish, animals, and birds who live, feed, and reproduce within the many natural preserves that are on the banks of these rivers and creeks along the route. How many children with developing brains are drinking this water? How many newborns and infants are having their formula mixed with water tainted from this SuperFund site? How in the hell did this happen in the 20th century? Did they NOT know that mining lead, which we've known to be toxic at the very least since the early-mid 70s if not much, much earlier, would create lead dust which could be easily dispersed by wind, storms and especially tornadoes in this area known as tornado alley? How did the US government allow this? ANSWER: War...yes, it was the need to mine this metal for WWI that prompted the US government to allow this toxic industry to proliferate without regulation or consideration about the mountains of chat that were left behind uncovered. This is now the most toxic area of the US and it is STILL not covered. Those mountains of chat are still lying around, blowing the lead dusty every which way...and if you've ever lived in tornado alley (I did for 18 years), you know what tornados are capable of doing, and how far they can spread heavy debris, so just imagine what those winds can do with lead dust that is absorbed into the bloodstream and then able to cross the blood-brain barrier. (and alter anyone's personality). This is sickening...absolutely sickening...yet, not surprising. War seems to excuse everything (because politicians make $$$ during wartime). ...and where are these companies who were mining all this now? What became of them? Who bought them out? Why haven't these companies been made to clean up the land the purchased from the tribe who once owned it?
@@Dreamtraveling_goober I'm a fast typer, so the typing was easy. However, researching the flow of toxic waste into the Gulf of Mexico took a couple of hours. It was interesting, though.
I'm agree with you, it's disgusting and sickening how for a bunch of dollars those mining companies are destroying the environment. I live in Mexico and I've read some articles about the risks and health problems that people are developing just by living near the mines. It's really sad because if there are no forest there's no food and water. I know it's not related, but it might be not a good idea reaching for new planets to live when we're turning ours into a big toxic wasteland. :(
So interesting! Never even knew about this town and what happened. I can't believe it took 10 years just to discover that the piles were bad! You would think they would've moved faster on that! Just crazy!
Translating : it took 10 years before it was publicly known ... that is something else. They tried for more time, to cover it up, I'm sure. Look at Chernobyl - the Russian government was even trying to hide the fact a nuclear power plant had exploded. Can you imagine that ? Governments all over the world will try a lot to cover up mistakes, some in the context of "keeping the people calm", but in reality the reason is that they can proceed with their (dangerous) activities.
There's also Wittenoom, Australia; they mined Blue Asbestos there. Asbestos dust had been first discovered to be dangerous when, in 1895 when they did an autopsy on an 18-22 year old who died from inhaling it?
One wonders how the interior of the houses got to be such a disastrous mess. Tornado? Quick evacuation? Both? I know tornadoes tear shit up, but the fact that the outside of the house is relatively intact doesn't explain the garbage and misc all over the floors.
It's humans. Hobo squatters destroy houses that they infest. That's not just vandalism, that's a disgusting person sleeping and shitting on the floor for months before wandering off.
Went to Picher this weekend. My Great Uncle is from here. Many of these locations have since been gated off by the government due to sink holes. Home foundations are still there, covered in grass and vines. The school is gone due to arson but the atmosphere of the area is quite haunting. Everything is sadly empty, waiting to be noticed and taken care of. Except the gorilla, who appeared to recently been repainted, like a diamond in an empty mine.
When I saw AdamTheWoo visit this place in one of his vlogs, I didn't really give this place much thought, it being like an American Chernobyl, you decide which story sounds more heartbreaking.
My grandmother use to live here. She never told me about it because of the people she loved there were lost. And she didnt want to remember that.but now she cant remember anything at all anymore.she once told me that when the tornado came. She saw one of her loved ones litterally get swept away and flew in the sky before they fell to the ground (im guessing one of my grandmothers loved ones were one of the 7 dead people that was mentioned). My grandmother died years later. Seeing this makes me want to wish my grandmother a happy life. And that she doesnt have to see how the town turned out today.
