Most of the time I love my job. Good money, benefits, and hours. But today was not one of them days. We started out by going underground at 4:00 (was on afternoon shift) and it was a terrible storm yesterday as most of you were probably hit by it. We get up to the face((where coal is being mined)) and as soon as we went to relieve the other crew, disaster struck. The top fell from forty feet up due to the bad humidity and mining under a creek, happens 2-3 times a year, but never this bad. It fell into 3 entrys completely flooding 2 of them, smashing our miner and bolter equipment . Luckily, no one was hurt. had to work a double to get shit straightened out, had to put up with my old man coming in since he is one of the big bosses, and spent the next 16 hrs in waist high water trying to bolt the top up and clean up. It was probably one of the worst falls in the mine. You could go up there and look straight up for forty feet. It's days like this that I wanna say fuck it and go somewhere else, but I like it here for the most part, and cant quit, especially in this economy. I have also been thinking of joining a volunteer firefighter/EMS station. Any thoughts on this?