mr40 -- my comment stands -- and I'd guess the however many residents live in the vicinity of the spill might have a comment or two as well
(I have also been up there, in my high-plains chasing travels -- and wouldn't describe the area dismissively as you do -- as with the rest of the high plains, in its own way quite beautiful, actually)
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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