tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274933972545691417.post4795819194178357264..comments2023-11-17T02:40:32.392-08:00Comments on Kelly's Paranormal Page: On The Edge Of Death Ghost Town Of Cairo IllinoisKelly Horanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06887249438940156149noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274933972545691417.post-42270990393974593682014-11-20T23:51:16.315-08:002014-11-20T23:51:16.315-08:00i grew up in cairo in 1994-200 i grew up in cairo in 1994-200 Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12043873890771989871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274933972545691417.post-37359726494843487792013-04-15T13:04:58.556-07:002013-04-15T13:04:58.556-07:00Let me just say that adslkjhcjdhnv I love your blo...Let me just say that adslkjhcjdhnv I love your blog!!!! <br />I know this article is an old one,but this was the first one I ever read. I am doing a report on Cario (my dad is making me...the wonders of being home schooled)<br />And this helped me a lot, because I want to do my report about the ghosts in the town.<br />Anyway, thank you!<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236676177768356430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274933972545691417.post-30654426892912125722012-01-15T06:52:36.872-08:002012-01-15T06:52:36.872-08:00I personally witnessed a once proud building on fi...I personally witnessed a once proud building on fire in Cairo. I was in shock as I drove by, there were no fire fighters on scene, it was just being left to burn.<br /> During the great spring 2011 flood, the river water was the highest on record. The old dikes that hold the river water back were going to burst. The Army Corps of Engineers made the decision to blow a levee just beyond Cairo in Missouri, thus inundating several thousand acres of uninhabited, but highly fertile farmland. The option would have been to let Cairo flood, Many of the locals were in favor of this option, it would have been an appropriate biblical cleansing of Cairo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3274933972545691417.post-37383993256823047472012-01-15T06:42:58.020-08:002012-01-15T06:42:58.020-08:00The aforementioned bridges, which contributed to C...The aforementioned bridges, which contributed to Cairo's demise, are functionally antiquated. In fact the Illinois to Missouri bridge, called the "Blue bridge", by locals has now been indefinitely closed due to structural weakness. These bridges were built in the 1940's to carry US route 60 from Wickliffe Kentucky across the Ohio, and Mississippi rivers. Both bridges are incredibly narrow. The "Blue bridge", even though one had to actually turn the mirrors inward to avoid hitting another truck, was a favorite of truck drivers as a route to bypass the Draconian Missouri scale house just beyond Cairo in Missouri. With its closure, all traffic wishing to traverse to Missouri must now go through Cairo at 30 miles per hour. One wonders when the Federal government was looking for "shovel ready" projects to spend stimulus money on, how these unsafe bridges were not picked to be replaced. I personally withnessed an unknowing pedestrian who made the mistake of trying to walk across the Illinois to Kentucky bridge. He only made it a short distance, before freezing terrified as there is absolutely no extra space. 911 actually had to be called to extricate him from the bridge, it is so narrow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com