TV crew decodes disasters underground (which was a cool place to be today)

First they got Ted Koppel, and now they've got Larry Grayson. Discovery Times, part of the Discovery Channel empire, was out at UMR's Experimental Mine today -- it was nice and cool underground -- to shoot footage for an upcoming edition of the new show "Decoding Disaster." (Incidentally, the first "Decoding Disaster" episode was about nightclub disasters, specifically the deadly nightclub fire that was sparked during a concert by the 1980s big hair band Great White.) The crew is at the UMR mine to do recreations (with help from Grayson and other UMR experts) of two mining disasters -- the 2001 explosion at the Jim Walters Resources mine in Alabama and a 2003 explosion at a Kentucky coal mine. We'll let you know when and where you might be able to catch the episode shot underground in Rolla; it's expected to air on cable about four months from now.