 They were mostly empty, with some junk, although one contained tanks for what was probably once a sprinkler system. I was determined to keep exploring the rest of the day anyway, but I really just wanted to go back to our room and lie down. I had to shimmy down a large pipe so that I could drop down into the tunnel. The two story area we came into had once been a JC Penney, but you wouldn't have known it from looking. It hurt like hell, but after taking my shoe off, I could see that I was fine. It was a miracle they hadn't given way underneath me. One of them was a fairly new truck that someone had gotten turned upside down. Louis friends with us since we'd never been there before, but they hadn't been able to joins us that night. And as we left that building, we found yet another vehicle, this one also rusty. We creeped around a little bit and came to a wet area surrounding a grate in the floor. It was a huge metal structure at the edge of the river for loading barges. It appeared to run the entire the length of the building. Louis vacation, we returned to the Armour meat packing plant to climb the smokestack, which ended up being a HUGE mistake. It was a little scary the higher I got, but that was to be expected. I offered money if someone was willing to dive into it, but everyone politely declined. In fact, it was so high that I wasn't going to be able to walk to every part of the cave where the water was deepest. We talked to them a bit and it turned out they had seen the place on the site and wanted to check it out. Short of them getting a rescue helicopter, there was no way to get me down. It wasn't a basement, because the walls were natural rock and the chamber looked to be manmade and mined out. Personally, the idea of sitting up there for hours waiting on a helicopter was almost as sickening as the idea of climbing down. It was probably thirty or so feet up from the water, and I was tempted to shed my clothes and have Hiccup take some video of me bailing into the river from it. A ladder led down through an opening in the grate and we could see water below. I discovered right away that the water was much higher than the last time I was in there. Last time, it had been winter and the warmth of the cave had caused a fog that made pictures almost impossible. There was no ladder, but someone had propped a rectangular piece of scrap against the wall. So, Hiccup and I headed back down to the other side of the basement to meet him where he would come out, and we got there about the same time as he did. Last time, it had been winter and the warmth of the cave had caused a fog that made pictures almost impossible. Climbing great heights like that was always a little unnerving. There were clothes, furntiure, and pretty much anything else you'd expect to find at a garage sale. Louis vacation, Hiccup and I met up with Chris and explored a couple random buildings and the Cotton Belt Freight Depot. Common sense won out, though, because there was no telling what might be under the water ready to impale me. |
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