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Animal rescue officer saves a kitten who was in an underground pipe

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122067) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 1 Jul

Pamela Gallagher who is a resident of Bay Shore neighborhood in Long Island heard the cries of a kitten who was in an underground pipe for a period of 18 hours on Monday June 2 when she contacted the Suffolk County Police...

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Small alligator seen strolling in a pipe under a road in Florida

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122067) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 12 Jun

City employees of Oviedo Florida sent a camera to check on a pipe underneath a road on Thursday May 15 when the camera saw a small alligator crawling inside of the pipe. The reason the remote-control camera was working underneath...

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Where To Run?

Kandase @Kandae11 (57233) 1 Dec 22

Have you given any thought to what you would do in the face of a global disaster or Apocalypse? Where would you run ? Where could you hide? Some have given it much thought - so much that a number of entrepreneurs are remodeling...

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Root Cellar....

Francine @beenice2 (2967) • Sackville, New Brunswick 9 Feb 21

A subject that my husband talks about often. It is going to become reality soon. this year. Our area is well close to a swamp, so there are few things to consider here. Drainage. Things that we cannot do, build underground....

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Underground tunnel

C @ShyBear88 (59342) • Sterling, Virginia 7 Apr 20

So our area where we live in Virginia has a few underground tunnels. They typically are in places where a cross walk can’t be placed so people can go under and through the tunnels to get from one side of the road to the other...

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Coincidental YouTubing and the Underground Fire

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21504) • London, England 13 Jan 20

A short while back, @JudyEv and I had a quick chat about an underground fire in an old coal mine. We couldn’t remember any of the details and I soon forgot about it. I look on YouTube to watch the NBC Evening News, which they...

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Air-conditioning indoors and out

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 17 May 19

While in Qatar on a bus tour, our guide took as to ‘Lafayette’ which is apparently modelled on the upmarket French department store chain. Wiki –know-everthing says it operates in a number of other locations so whether it’s a...

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National Underground American Day

C @ShyBear88 (59342) • Sterling, Virginia 14 May 19

6,000 people all across the North American live these underground homes. These types of homes are more eco friendly as well as saves you money on things like energy like heat. I’ve never been in one of these but it makes me think...

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Happiness of Ending..!!!

Anjali Bharati @AnthOcean (407) 5 Jun 17

I had an exam on last Saturday. I had to put so much of things aside just to concentrate fully for the exam. Like i had stopped seeing my friends everyday, stopped to go out for lunch or dinner, no games, no serials ( Iron fist...

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Film on the Underground

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21504) • London, England 30 Jan 17

I have previously touched on the small flourishes added to Tube Stations, mostly overlooked, that give a little taste of local character. Leicester Square is home to a number of cinemas and UK film premiers are frequently held...

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Flurry, my Dear bunny !!

Francine @beenice2 (2967) • Sackville, New Brunswick 7 Dec 16

Sitting here wandering what to write. All of sudden rose my head to see my bunny looking at me while I was wondering. So I decided to take a picture of her. She is not as scared as the other one we got. Fussy enough with...

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Time Underground at Coober Pedy, South Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Nov 16

One of the places I was keen to visit on our recent trip to South Australia and the Northern Territory was Coober Pedy. This is an opal-mining town but is also now highly geared to cater for tourists. I'll do a second post on...

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Future Tubes

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21504) • London, England 20 Sep 16

Future proofing is becoming a major feature of the design process for London trains. On the left of the picture, above, is Clapham Common Station. When this station opened in 1900 it was the southern end of the Northern Line,...

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Cats on the Tube

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21504) • London, England 19 Sep 16

It is not just the internet, until next Monday Clapham Common Tube Station has been taken over by cats. Arriving at the station you see the normal advertising posters, but as you exit the station you pass posters of cats in the...

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Are there really people living in the tunnels and sewer pipes under Manhattan?

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 13 Sep 16

My wife just read a book titled"Reliquary" by the same authors who wrote "The Relic." They are both in that Stephen King sort of category that are far to scary for me to even think about reading. But, "Reliquary" seems to be...

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Wrong Station, Right Line

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21504) • London, England 27 Aug 16

At Embankment Tube Station, there is a typo that has been around for years and, can be, rather misleading. In the passageway to the Bakerloo Line the route map shows a stop at Willesden Green (8th from the top). The right half of...

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Hey Everyone

Angela @angtobeheard (276) • United States 26 Aug 16

So its Friday, my son is sleep and I am watching underground starring Jurnee Smollet Bell. Has anyone seen it? Its actually a pretty interesting show. Its about slaves that run away from a plantation. I usually do not like...

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Best Plotted Plans Failed

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21504) • London, England 26 Aug 16

Earlier in the week I spent a morning ambling around Town, following a list of 'quirky' things I wanted to see. I started at Whitechapel Tube Station. I think this is the only place where Underground trains pass over the top of...

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The Disappearing River

Jeff Moffitt @moffittjc (128824) • Gainesville, Florida 9 May 16

In northern Florida is a slow, meandering river called the Santa Fe River, which begins life at the spring-fed Lake Santa Fe, and then flows gracefully over 75 miles until it reaches and merges with the historic Suwannee River....

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New Underground Trains

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21504) • London, England 27 Apr 16

There is a slow revolution taking place on London's Tube. With the increasing number of people working in the city the underground system struggles to cope. The solution for the 'Sub Surface' has been the introduction of new...

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