The Road To Nowhere - ABANDONED Mountain Tunnel
http://www.AdamTheWoo.com - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE - Joined by Jacob from http://www.TheCarpetbagger.org I ventured to the mountain of North Carolina to check out the Road to Nowhere and the tunnel that still exists. Enjoy
Check out The Carpetbagger article. http://www.thecarpetbagger.org/2013/07/the-road-to-nowhere-downside-of.html
Transcript
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welcome everyone I'm here in the
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mountains of North Carolina why am I
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yelling because I am excited about this
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place that I am at it's the road to
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nowhere just outside Bryson City started
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in the 1940s and was never completed the
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whole Road was shut down in the
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1970s and it's just sitting out here
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just doing nothing we got to show them
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the road to nowhere right now join us
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shall
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you you can see my van up there and at
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the bottom of the hill next to this
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railroad track they actually put cars
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right here to keep the old cars keep the
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River from washing away and they're all
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along the river bad it's pretty
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awesome check out this old school
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vintage Mountain Dew can that's a
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relic cool that all is still out here
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what's that it's cool that all this is
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still out
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here
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yeah looks like we're almost there
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straight ahead tunnel from the road to
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nowhere
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weird and this is it the tunnel at the
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end The Road to
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Nowhere a little brisk and cold in here
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probably should have worn our hoodies
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but we didn't left them in the
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van
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hello there's no turning back now we're
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inside we're inside the tunnel this
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thing's pretty long
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crazy this uh
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tunnel started building it in the early
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40s 70s it was shut down due to
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environmental
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concerns to this day it's not
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completed Town recently received
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millions of dollars of FAL Aid as
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compensation for
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their neighborhood and
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water hey
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Adam did you know that the original Lake
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you drive is still at the bottom of Lake
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Fontana when this road was built
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originally to take them all the way to
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Tennessee smile photo opportunity
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hey Adam do you know that the flooded
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Valley blocked people in Bryson City off
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from their ancestrial graveyards that
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the federal government had to pay to
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take them out there once a year to visit
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their
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families it's amazing how far out no pun
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intended in the middle of nowhere this
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is sitting at the top of where the
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tunnel would be the tunnel would be
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directly below me it's about 10 miles
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from from town so the closest town you
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got to drive 10 miles to even get out
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here thanks for watching
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everyone check out Jacob's website it's
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called the carpetbagger dorg and you are
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going to put the link down here
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somewhere right oh the link about more
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information about The Road to Nowhere
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yeah that a Blog that you did on your
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website yes yeah I'll put the link down
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below oh
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crap oh man look at the size of this
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rock I just found this is this is heavy
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make sure you check out my other channel
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it's called The Daily woo I do a
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different unedited Vlog every single day
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I'll put the link right up here make
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sure you subscribe to this Channel and
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check out my other channel the daily woo
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see you guys later say goodbye
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goodbye The Road to
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Nowhere leads to
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me you're recording hey Adam do you know
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that I'm terrified of heights I'm here
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in the mountains of Tennessee no I'm not
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in Tennessee where am I we're in North
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Carolina all right let's do again that
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Budweiser can check out the top on that
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they don't make them like that
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anymore it's a satanic
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cat what
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the hey
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View Drive is buried under Lake Fontana
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that they uh were originally going to
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build hey Adam
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you know that this road was built when
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the original Lake View Drive was covered
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underwater and they were going to build
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them a road that took them all the way
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to try that
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again man this is way out
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here yeah no kidding this really is a
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road to nowhere oh