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From: Barbara Morrison
Subject: trident
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:26:08 -0300
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We thanked the neighbors for letting us check the place out, told them about our website, and gave them a sticker. Unfortunately, I made a few errors in my plans. That was something I'd been avoiding, and I'd actually made sure the whole way to be in constant contact with at least three rungs. I ended up just taking the rope out of my backpack and throwing it down so I wouldn't have to carry it again. I took a few quick flash pictures of the area, which I'd been relucant to do as we were going in, and then we rushed out of the area. I climbed up it and bailed up through the opening onto the roof. I jerked away the top few bricks as quick as I could until I reached ones that held, and then jerked myself up onto the top of the smokestack.
So, we started heading over that way.
If I'd thought there was some way the fire department could've come out and gotten to me, I would've just sat my ass there all day until they came and rescued me. For one, my carabiners were too small to go easily over the ladder rungs embedded in the smokestack.
It appeared that someone had been storing a lot of stuff down here and hadn't touched it for quite some time. I had to shimmy down a large pipe so that I could drop down into the tunnel.
We worked on it for a while with a piece of metal and a shovel, and we finally wedged it open.
It looked like someone had been stockpiling clothes and toiletries. However, since it was daylight and Dodd City was about the size of a postage stamp, I didn't figure we'd have any problem finding it this time. I'm no chicken, but that was way too close of a brush with death for me.
Unfortunately, there did appear to be more graffiti than the last time I was there.
I was honestly that scared, and I'm not someone who scares easily.
That was fine with me.
He got pretty excited once he saw it and said that he would call the office and see if they were interested.
There was really nothing left to tell what it might have been, although a department store was a safe bet.
It looked like someone had been stockpiling clothes and toiletries. One of the walls had a gap between the top and the ceiling, so I jumped up and hauled myself through the opening.
It didn't appear that there was an actual level lower than that basement. At first, the lady came back with a check for the wrong person, but after a few more minutes she came back with the right one.
The bricks CAME OFF IN MY HANDS! We started out with the abandoned River Roads Mall. It seemed to be the place where I'd heard the water dripping earlier.
The area hadn't looked like anything of interest when we'd entered the building, and we'd never have known it was there otherwise.


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