Engineers Swore Nothing Could Move The Sunken Rig Until An Old Man Started His Nineteen Forty Nine Wrecker

The first thing to disappear was the back wheel.

Not all at once. Not with a dramatic crack or a Hollywood splash. It sank slowly, almost politely, into the black Missouri mud behind the old Red Hollow Bridge, as if the earth had been waiting fifty years for something expensive enough to swallow.

The $1.8 million drilling rig had been crawling across continue reading …