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Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of water Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the Rolling Thunder mine near Drennen, about 50 miles east of the state capital of Charleston, Nicholas County Commissioner Garrett Cole said in a Facebook post. read more
Strange that so many VIP's are suddenly (and inexplicitly) donating $Millions$ to build a "ballroom" that is of no personal use to them.
I'd bet the "donations" will amount to at least 100x the cost of building that monstrosity. The excess will be gifted to a worthy cause, I'm sure.