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Spent the morning working in the caves. This one is about a 1/2 to 3/4 mile square. Houses around 32 companies. And still has quite a bit of unfinished space. It's a nice 50 to 60 degs F year round. This is one of the nicer ones. Some are down right scary.

Cool PP, what the heck are the caves for?

Salt mine?

D.U.M.B 's ?

They mined limestone out of them. This area is riddled with them. Some still in operation. But they take the caves after they are done mining them. And turn them into big underground commercial complexes. Anything from a small internet sales company To manufactures. Lots of cold storage companies. Archives at high levels. Bla Bla Bla you name it they are in there. We have one that's over a mile and a half square.

Most of them are newer caves. The older ones they stripped away to much materials. To make them safe. You hear about the older ones caving in all the time. Many are located where no one knew where they were. Houses get built over them not knowing they are there. And sometimes the houses are swallowed up in a sink hole. We had one collapse not to long ago. At first it was reported as an earthquake. Only to find it was an old mine that when the depleted most of what was usable. They worked their way back out stripping the columns away. Leaving very little support.

MK there are salt mines south west of here. That they do much the same with. But they are all limestone here.

I know of about 10 being used just in this area. One is right down town. It has one small drive entrance. That if you didn't know any better. You wouldn't know what it was. It has a business district built on top of it. So no one thinks its a cave.

Was in some cave looked like that out of Kansas City years ago. They had a fire that had burned for a long time and they couldn't put it out
The Stock brokerage that I worked for used them mostly for high end record storage.

Pretty cool place as I recall

Coyote

I've been to one customers location I suspect is built over a cave. It was a big banks vault of sorts. I had to go though 6 gates 2 singles and 2 double gates with the pop up road blocks. To a building in the middle of nowhere. After getting though 4 security check points walking through the building they had pics of the construction. And it looked to be a shaft that would lead to a cave built under the building. You could see where trucks would pull in. Then disappear. LOL modern day fort noxx.

Coyote wrote:Was in some cave looked like that out of Kansas City years ago. They had a fire that had burned for a long time and they couldn't put it out
The Stock brokerage that I worked for used them mostly for high end record storage.

Pretty cool place as I recall

Coyote

Sounds like the inland caves. They are some of the older ones. It has had multiple fires and caveins. It's been sealed up and anything above it vacated. Supposedly there was a cavein that blocked access to a storage companies area. That stored motorcycles and cars. And all of them are still down there. Last I knew they were still stripping a section of that one out. It's one of the ones I wouldn't want to mess with.

Yeah there were old records from the 40's and 50's that we could not access due to the fire.

Made a couple of cases dealing with estate taxes really challenging.

They have made these newer ones a lot safer. I haven't heard of a big fire in one for a long time. All of the areas that are not roadways have multiple fire doors. Can't run any internal combustion engines inside those areas. Air quality and fire reasons. All our customers in the caves have electric forklifts. But they have come a long way in making them safe and clean.

these were interesting working years,
lots of action with no money,

Now that's cool.

This was my office for many years

My buddy destroyed his shoulder ridding bulls. No thank you. I will hang out in the caves.

Those cave parks are cool.
After years of doing startups as an independant, mostly in places no one would want to travel to, I joined a big company and got sent to Brazil for a few months during Carnival. Great place, fine people. Came to the conclusion that an extra large percentage of the most beautiful women in the world live there.

Shoulders pinned, Neck fused, hip wired, knees re-manufactured, metal in both legs, fingers broke so many times I can't pick a guitar much anymore.

Damn that was fun!!

Ouch. Don't have near that pedigree, but I can tell when it's going to rain.

Shucks who knew I would live this long

when i was around 14 my brothers freind convinced me to ride their wild horse,
i did and it went great for about the fist 30 feet before it started its show,
held on long enough to make it to the grass field, then head first landing,
i sworn i shrunk a few inchs that day,

so my bro's freind felt bad because he could see i was hurting,
so he tried to cheer me up by riding a large pig,
man that was funny, it was like a charlie chaplin movie,
happened so fast, still make me smile,

Nothing as cool as the above any more, i am a trim carpnter but work on houses that range from $900,000 to $20,000,000 some real nice digs. Use to work on steam boilers on freighters, power houses, schools ect, worked on a few that were 7 stories tall with 12'x12'x12' fire boxes, I was a welder have done some welding on super heaters which get to 700 lbs pressure, was fun untill blew my back out, wood is alot lighter than all the steel I use to deal with!

Well cant post pics of the "cool" place I work but,........................... If you have ever Watched Lock Up USA, then you get the picture.................