In the sixties and early seventies, Mesick said, people sometimes slept in the mine: it contained fallout shelters, built and maintained by Iron Mountain for executives from Exxon, Shell, and other big companies.
"The exclusive responsibility for arguing against the Iraq war or stating my opinion of Margaret Thatcher's regime was mine … If there was a fallout, it was mine.
Appalachia, like 25 other states that mine or have mined coal, will be living with the toxic fallout of coal mines and coal slurry for generations.
The White House said that the United States is already helping deal with the fallout from mines.
(The salt mine employed as a fallout shelter is a nice touch).
There's now more than 30 million Steam accounts out there, and I just used mine to pre-order Fallout: New Vegas.
Mr Mackinnon said the fallout from the mining firms' collapse, and the subsequent shortfall in clean-up funds, was "as bad as it gets" for East Ayrshire.
The glib oversight of these two basic facts of life disregards the heroic efforts of folks across the country who live daily with the deadly and toxic fallout of strip mining, coal slurry impoundments, coal ash and black lung disease, which still robs three miners daily of their lives.
There are worries about the environmental fallout of the new mining, and about how sustainable a mining-led recovery might be.
My grammy's father, Ezra, moved the family there after his job in Thurmond either got too competitive or the conflict with scab labor and the fallout from the mine wars got too hot.
