Officials have been watching for more than a year as a sinkhole expands and engulfs land, swamp, and threatens homes. On Wednesday, the massive sinkhole expanded in a dramatic way, swallowing trees and causing turmoil in the local community.
The sinkhole, discovered Aug. 3, 2012, resulted from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern about 40 miles south of Baton Rouge. After oil and natural gas came oozing up and acres of the swampland liquefied into muck, the community's 350 residents were advised to evacuate.
John Boudreaux, director of emergency preparedness for Assumption Parish, witnessed a "burp" (a small disturbance on the surface) after lunch on Wednesday and knew it could signal something bigger.
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There have been many of these in recent years. It's rather disturbing to think you may be swallowed up while your sleep like in Florida!
ReplyDeleteor maybe it is all the oil and gas we are suckig up out of the ground and it leaves holes...
ReplyDeleteyou know they fill those holes with trash and other crap... maybe it is that causing the problem...
Maybe not in this particular state but else where...
Sort of like welfare!
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ReplyDeleteThere have been many of these in recent years. It's rather disturbing to think you may be swallowed up while your sleep like in Florida!
August 22, 2013 at 11:50 PM
If you read the article you would have noticed the story is in La. and not Fl.
10:30
ReplyDeleteThey never said it was in Fla, but there was a man killed in Fla by a sink hole.
Caught on Camera: Massive Louisiana Sinkhole Gets Bigger....That is what it says in big read letters.
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