It's given me some game ideas. A li'l town flavah. Maybe the PCs find a town that looks perfectly normal but is completely empty. Full of bodies? Or they encounter refugees on the road. Or they wander into a town filled with smoke from no discernible source that's slowly dying before there eyes. Like I said, I find it interesting. Imagine all that coal burning underground. Amazing.
But does it keep the snow from accumulating?
Odds are, however, the next time I run (if ever - I am considering it, though) will be in Athas. Maybe turn the heat up in that town a li'l more? ;)
Jeebus... what a... I don't even have words to properly describe how angry junk like this gets me.
Especially this part:
The fire began at the town dump (in 1962) and ignited an exposed coal vein. It could have been extinguished for thousands of dollars then, but a series of bureaucratic half-measures and a lack of funding allowed the fire to grow into a voracious monster — feeding on millions of tons of slow-burning anthracite coal in the abandoned network of mines beneath the town.
I'm not one of these "down wit' da gubment" nutcases, but I despise mindless bureuacracy, especially cases like this where it is not simply annoying but actively detrimental. Sure we need measureds and controls for a government to run properly and not slide in anarchy, but sometimes governments need to say "
what is allowed, we need to do what is right!"Jeebus... what a... I don't even have words to properly describe how angry junk like this gets me.
Especially this part:
The fire began at the town dump (in 1962) and ignited an exposed coal vein. It could have been extinguished for thousands of dollars then, but a series of bureaucratic half-measures and a lack of funding allowed the fire to grow into a voracious monster — feeding on millions of tons of slow-burning anthracite coal in the abandoned network of mines beneath the town.
I'm not one of these "down wit' da gubment" nutcases, but I despise mindless bureuacracy, especially cases like this where it is not simply annoying but actively detrimental. Sure we need measureds and controls for a government to run properly and not slide in anarchy, but sometimes governments need to say "
Pretty much, however the buracracy was probably on the part of the company as well. I blame the coal company as much as if not more than the government they allowed the spill to happen in the first place probably with unsafe procedures and cutting costs and corners.