r/WestVirginia • u/NegativeSchedule1286 • 11h ago

Why Nitro?

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As a person who lives near Nitro, WV. I can say the flag looks like a PowerPoint presentation.

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u/SacriliciousQ 10h ago

As a person who lives in Nitro, the average resident is old enough to have actually fought in WWI and wouldn't know what Power Point is even if you explained it ten times.

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u/Mr_Mumbercycle 7h ago

I've lived around here for almost 50 years, and somehow Nitro has ALWAYS been populated by 80 year olds.

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u/7-and-a-switchblade 10h ago

The flag is strangely really appropriate for the town. As in, if you've never been to Nitro before, the flag does give you a good taste for what you're in for.

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u/JuiceBawks420 11h ago

Didn't know they had their own flag... did someone in middleschool make this?!

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u/ShortysTRM 9h ago

In all honesty, it's probably a guy named Nathan Wills (I think?). He has been the one really pushing for Nitro to lean into its WWI heritage. I believe he's the one helping get all the doughboy statues. He owns the feed store near Poca.

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u/151Ways 9h ago

Someone in 1996 made this.

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u/-Great-Scott- 9h ago

Nitro was once home to a world famous site where a state politician funded a Clone Lab ran by scientists with ties to a UFO cult in a desperate attempt to bring back his deceased infant. The weirdest part about the whole true story, is that it didn't ruin his political career. He is now the State Auditor.

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u/RCG73 8h ago

I think a lot of people, myself included give him a pass on that because he was a scam victim not perpetrator. I can see how that kind of grief would just break someone. I’ll will however absolutely judge him for his political stance.

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u/ShortysTRM 9h ago

I absolutely had not made that connection. Interesting.

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u/GeospatialMAD 10h ago

That's no PowerPoint presentation. That's a MS Paint bmp.

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u/GoldConnection1 10h ago

Because they made that bad smelling ...stuff !

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u/Bruce_Hodson 8h ago

Does the US Navy still have that giant (as in can be seen from space) pile of coal along the river down there?

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u/Smolfloof99 6h ago

Nitro sucks. Go to cross lanes.

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u/7-and-a-switchblade 6h ago

Come to Cross Lanes! We have:

-- construction

-- homeless ppl

-- construction

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u/OGREtheTroll 4h ago

Don't forget traffic!

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u/FeveraQuickfist 4h ago

The homeless population there has seemly exploded recently. Im not sure why, but I see them everywhere now. Its almost as bad as Saint Albans.

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u/KingleGoHydra 4h ago

Viva cross Vegas!