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jj - what ward were you on?

I was exploring the basement in my apartment building the other day. We have a room with fire system pumps and pipes and a big metal lid in the floor. I immediately thought of "the hole" at Glenn Dale Hospital LOL. Anyway, with a shovel I pried open the lid and wouldn't you know it, it looks like the same damn scary hole. Ours is about 2.5 feet in diameter with a drop pipe off to the side just like in the picture, and goes down roughly 7 to 10 feet deep. It is rigged up with a high-low level alarm. Sump pump, water well or fire system reservoir, I really don't know!

great pics...we smoked alot of boat up in that place during the 80s... definitely haunted yo

this has to be one of the best sites.photo's are mint.

Lord Motts......~Me likey this one, Sir.

I lived here at this HELL HOLE for 5 years of my life. I am GLAD it is no longer operational.

Can someone say asbestos?

I used to visit my Grandmother at Guild Manor for many years- she went there from the time my mom was a child in the 40s until I was a teenager in the 80s.

+1 JoniG
I've been silently enjoying for a long time now and part of what I enjoy is reading the comments and looking for what others see in the photos.

very haunting. Great shot

Beautiful shot

Being from the deep south, screen doors always seem comforting to me. They remind me of summers on screen porches playing go fish and of my great grandmother's back door.

Wow. That is a great shot. It reminds me of a Bram Stoker novel.

As has already been said, you rake snow off a roof to prevent huge chunks of it from sliding off as it partially thaws. You also rake it off (especially that heavy wet snow that decimates tree branches and power lines) when it gets more than a few inches deep so that its weight doesn't cause your roof to collapse, and to prevent leaks when it begins to melt but can't drain because ice dams have formed in the gutters.

The program called "Life after People" on the History Channel (or maybe it's National Geographic) shows some interesting computer simulations of how vegetation would overtake abandoned buildings and what the area would look like after a year, five years, 100 years, etc. The underlying premise seems a logical impossibility to me (what could happen that would exterminate all human life but leave plant and animal life essentially intact?), but that doesn't take away from the program's quality. One segment shows a return to a former town of 50,000 in the Ukraine that was completely evacuated in a period of a few hours about a day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. It is a moment frozen in time, with everything literally left just as it was--dishes on tables, scattered toys, remnants of lives left behind with no time to take more than just what one could carry. The buildings have now decayed to a point where any kind of rehabilitation is impossible, just because of weather and lack of maintenance. Because entrance has been prohibited, and because radiation is enough of a threat to keep people from trying to breach security, there is no vandalism at all.