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In rural Alabama, an underground mine threatens to blow up the homes above it. Officials don’t care
Fast CompanyOAK GROVE, Ala. — Lily Spicer felt the energy of the explosion surge through her body.
She was talking to her daughter on the phone when the boom came. Her family was accustomed to the occasional blasts that would sometimes shake their window…