A McClintic bunker
First, a World War II-era storage bunker blew up on one of West Virginia’s most popular wildlife management areas.
That happened May 17. After the explosion, we learned that state Division of Natural Resources Officials had been leasing “several of the bunkers” to “private individuals and to companies.”
Then, on June 22, we learned that enough of those bunkers were being leased that the DNR would be forced to close 175 acres of the WMA to future hunting and fishing activities.
And now, just days after the state fire marshal ordered the closure area expanded to 305 acres — nearly one-tenth of the tract’s 3,655 acres — we learn that as many as half a million pounds of explosives are stored on the site. And, according to Deputy Fire Marshal Reed Cook, some of those explosives are unstable.
This begs a couple of questions: Given the pace at which information has trickled out, what else do we not yet know? And given what we might not yet know, how safe can hunters and anglers assume the remainder of the WMA to be?
Just askin’.
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So who leases the bunkers and why haven’t they been tasked with cleaning up this mess?
Is there an investigative reporter in the house?
BTW, You might want to look up the meaning of “to beg the question.”
It does not mean “to raise the question,” no matter what slovenly descriptive linguists claim
What’s with the “Just askin’?” Are you assuming we are all Dittoheads?