valkyrjuk

valkyrjuk t1_jdyusyu wrote

Reply to Equine Passion by MHarmony

From there, in high school you couldn't mention having a male horse or else you'd get uh. comments.

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valkyrjuk t1_jd89gn0 wrote

Reply to comment by Rtheguy in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone

No clue! The plants like it, the grass grows very sugary and none of our animals have like cancer or anything. In fact they usually live their full lifespans, all our dogs get to be ancient and our cats get old as balls too. The horses like the grass so much they get fat and the elk make a point of eating up the yard. All things considered it doesn't seem very toxic!

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valkyrjuk t1_jd66r5i wrote

Reply to comment by Alan_Smithee_ in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone

No? I mean, I live on seven acres and 4 of them have this coal wash going down like three feet. I don't think there's anything to do about it, and besides the plants seem to like it. I don't even know if the mining company is active, a logging company runs the hill now.

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valkyrjuk t1_jd3tj9q wrote

Reply to comment by Fourney in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone

Yeah the snow had no problem sticking, and we get so much rain the ground gets soaked a long ways down. It had to have been a very recent event, we did burn some wooden construction waste a few months prior but we'd never had a problem like this before so I'm not sure. It's quite a mystery

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valkyrjuk t1_jd3s1n3 wrote

Reply to comment by Fourney in TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone

18 years! The soil itself is fairly new as far as dirt goes, as the mine was open less than 150 years ago though I don't know the exact date

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valkyrjuk t1_jd3jr01 wrote

Reply to TIL A coal seam in Australia is believed to have been burning for 6,000 years, making it the oldest coal fire. The site's name is Mount Wingen but is commonly called Burning Mountain and the fire is traveling south 1m per year discoloring the ground as it goes. by jamescookenotthatone

My whole yard is coal wash from a nearby mine. Two years ago when the PNW had that really bad summer where it got to 114 degrees we had a fire start in the yard. We got it taken care of and started looking for the source. Using our excavator and some kind of a heat vision thing we dug into a really hot spot underground. Dude, the dirt in the pit we dug was fucking boiling. It's normally a thick black mud out here, but it looked like bubbling black sand. Like I was boiling ink.

I'm not sure what started it, it could have been burning for years and the drout is all that was needed to set the lawn on fire, but it was spooky man.

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