Sentences with phrase «into ghost towns»

Remember the 2008 story in the same magazine that said $ 200 per barrel oil was imminent, that commuters would become petroleum refugees & that the suburbs would shortly turn into ghost towns?

Rural areas emptied, with once - thriving regional centers transformed into ghost towns that have never been able to bounce back.

Meanwhile, Texas» other shale play, the once - hot Eagle Ford, has cooled, turning thriving communities into ghost towns.

Flight cancellations turn airline hubs into ghost towns as winter storm Jonas approaches, reports CNBC's Hampton Pearson.

Details are emerging about how Denkyira - Obuase township and its surroundings have virtually turned into a ghost town following the killing of the army officer who was said to be jogging Monday morning before he was accosted and lynched because the townsfolk claimed he was on an armed - robbery operation.

Omoku, the Local government headquarters turned into a ghost town of its economically and ebullient past.

Online dating doesn't come easily to everyone, and it can be a little saddening to be out of luck for a while, to see your inbox degrade into a ghost town.

Actress Radha Mitchell stars as a mother who stumbles into a ghost town where demons have stolen her child.

So when its citizens learned the People's United Bank branch on Main Street was closing, they feared their community would turn into a ghost town.

An old silver mine a few miles up the road has been turned into a ghost town, and a fort at Cibolo Creek is now an upmarket resort attracting the likes of Mick Jagger.

As we climbed, we reached the abandoned houses of Wadi Gul, glued to the mountain side, some still inhabited, but the majority turned into a ghost town.

Post safari trip, enjoy lip - smacking cuisines in the lunch while the train enters into the ghost town of Fatehpur Sikri.

Will these free maps be able to keep Evolve from devolving into a ghost town?

Does Cities: Skylines have what it takes to be the next megalopolis, or will it find itself turning into a ghost town?

This suite of small works — started as visual interpretations of his pulp novel Ten High in the early «80s — feature several recurring characters (including one very skinny horse) in a setting that looks like it's already made the transition into a ghost town.

On Tuesday night, for instance, the chill from Wall Street insinuated itself into the very air over New York, dropping the temperature near zero and turning the city into a ghost town everywhere but Chelsea, where crowds so recently accustomed to lavish parties and lava flows of spirits banded together for a week of less - is - more gatherings around, if not in, the Armory Show.

Shortly after, the recession made Chinatown into a ghost town, China Art Objects moved to Culver City, and now Chinatown is gradually developing back to the vibrancy it had years before.

In the Rhineland region in the west, the village of Immerath has recently been made into a ghost town to make way for expansion of German utility RWE's lignite - mining operations.

The fate of Consonno was sealed in 1976; after eight years of fun, a landslide rendered the single road to Consonno impassible, and the resort quickly descended into a ghost town.

Not exact matches

Back in 2005, Krishnan Suthanthiran, an Indian - born entrepreneur, followed his own passion when he purchased Kitsault, a ghost town in B.C., for $ 5.7 million, and turned it into an eco-village-cum-park.

It became a ghost town until the National Park Service acquired it in 1998 and turned it into a popular tourist destination.

When I think of ghost - town stores — the sort I'd flee after absent - mindedly wandering into them — I usually picture Future Shop.

Who can forget this moment from the final stages of the 2012 European Grand Prix in Valencia, before the race was ditched and the track turned into a dishevelled ghost town.

Because of the petite scorecards, because of the indecipherable salty wind, because of the massive double greens shared by holes whose numbers always add up to 18, because you play out into a wet and woolly corner of the world and play home into such a civilized and sturdy town, because the course is public and because it has ghosts, the Old Course is unique and unduplicateable.

«Activities of this monster dovetailed into a disaster worse than that of a war - torn country; our people took flight; our economy was grounded, financial institutions relocated and our once buzzing city of Omoku was reduced to a ghost town.

In our Cougared review we found a site that long ago peaked and had fairly quickly been turning into a virtual ghost town.

Heather and her mom slipped into this hellish ghost town ages ago and now her dad is protecting her from ever experiencing it again.

Amirpour's movie is all set in the fictional suburbs of Bad City, Iran, an eerie ghost town haunted by The Girl (an excellent Sheila Vand), a young vampire who finds her way into this miserable circle of people.

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Preying primarily on menacing misogynists, our protagonist (Sheila Vand) silently slinks through the shadowy streets of «Bad City,» a fictional Iranian ghost town, maintaining her own code of moral justice deep into the hours of darkness.

Director: Robert Greene (Kate Plays Christine) Why It's Great: Deep into Arizona along the Mexican border, the mining town of Bisbee exists as a ghost of its former self.

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On the verge of going to law school to please his strict, arrogant father, Tom (Kinnear, Ghost Town), who thinks Jason's pursuit of the arts is a waste, Linda interjects herself into their lives, after receiving a copy to read that blows her mind, by insisting that the play be brought to life, using her own high school for the production.

Even at the film's beginning, Anarene, Texas (filming actually took place in Archer City) is already much like a ghost town or graveyard, with constant wind and dust swirling on the empty streets and into the nearly empty small business establishments.

We hummed along in silence for maybe half an hour, the sparse ghosts of small houses sliding by out in the landscape; then the Pontiac slowed and rattled over a low bridge into a town square.

If I call Ghost Town a literary novel, it is largely because it fits into no other boxes.

Restoring the Villa is as simple as pumping money into it, and over the course of the game it's quite rewarding to see it shift from a run - down ghost town to a thriving little city.

Following the highly successful launch of their co-op cooking game Overcooked, Team17 and Ghost Town Games have today released a Gourmet Edition of the game into retail, which features new content including new characters, new quests and new levels.

These imagined landscapes are sites of indeterminacy, which Nightingale will need to discover through a process of artistic experimentation: journeying into the desert, exploring ghost towns that no longer exist (or ever existed) and making interventions into the landscape to reveal these parallax shifts.

Too often, logging into a private legal network feels like a visit to a ghost town.

The big upside there being not that you can send SMS messages, but that it would allow Google to integrate Allo into the core Android user experience and quickly build up an enormous user base which would actually give Allo some legs to stand on, because right now it's a pretty ghost town that sees little attention paid to it.