Monday, July 01, 2019

Honoring History

Kadizzle started in the coal industry as an underground miner.  Somewhere around the age of 18 or 19 Kadizzle was employed as an underground coal miner in West Virginia.  At some point Kadizzle had a job shooting the bottom.  On midnight shift Kadizzle would drill holes all night with a jackhammer.  The idea was to blast about three feet of rock under the coal seam to provide more height for the mainline underground.  The locomotives ran on the mainline and hauled the coal out of the mine.  Kadizzle can remember the first time he heard the call " fire in the hole".   Before a blast was set off the mining custom was to yell as loud as you could  " fire in the hole".   This was to warn anyone nearby a blast was about to occur. 

So this morning as Kadizzle sat on the thrown for the morning constitutional he decided to honor the old mining tradition and yelled " fire in the hole "  at the appropriate time.  No one was hurt.

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