[Smittie]

That's our republic and freedoms circling the drain, folks!

[smokingfrog]

Caused by fracking, no doubt.
there goes your lakefront property

[kaehurowing]

That’s what Ross Perot was talking about!

Let’s hope it sucked him down first.

[Boogieman]

Happened before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

[Huskrrrr]

California finished their new underground water pipeline.

[molson209]

Water ? Looks like Chocolate Milk

[corbe]

You arrogant Texans, How come this lake aint called Oklahomass?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

It’s just America going down the drain...

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Now’s the time to invite the whole supreme court on a fishing trip.

[Vendome]

Whoa!

I’ve fished there. That’s horrible!

[L,TOWM]

Oh for Pete’s sake...

The opened the dam to drain the flood stage lake out. That “vortex” is water going into the dam spillway to increase the flow into the Red River some...

Not a bizarre happening at all.

[Sopater]

View gallery.

[exPBRrat]

I avoid ‘yahoo.com’ like the plague...must find the pics somewhere else.

[444Flyer]

Obamacare and your money.

[deport]

Swirling Vortex Is Draining Lake Texoma on Texas-Oklahoma Border

http://www.weather.com/news/news/lake-texoma-vortex-oklahoma-texas-flooding-draining

A giant swirling vortex is draining Lake Texoma like a bathtub after the
Army Corps of Engineers took steps recently to lower water levels on the
Texas-Oklahoma border reservoir.

Lake Texoma reached historic levels after record-breaking rains saturated
the region in the past weeks and caused flooding and destruction.

When authorities lowered water levels by opening floodgates, the
massive vortex formed.

“Just like in your house, when you fill a bathtub full of water and [open]
the drain, it will develop a vortex or whirlpool,” assistant lake
manager BJ Parkey told Business Insider.

When drainage began, the vortex was initially 8 feet wide and powerful enough
to suck in a full size boat, prompting officials to post warning signs and
buoys, lake manager Joe Custer told KXII-TV.

In the video above, taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa
District, the hole spins counter clockwise as water floods into the Denison
Dam spillway. The corps says a vortex like this is common when flood control
gates are used.

Authorities plan to keep the floodgates open, and estimate the lake will
reach normal levels by the end of July.

[Ditter]

I have heard that the only reason that Texas doesn’t slip off into the Gulf is because Oklahoma sucks. I guess this is proof!

[umgud]

Waterfall without the cliffs?

[Colorado Doug]

Misleading overly-sensationalized headline. It’s just a vortex from the floodgates being opened to lower the reservoir’s level.

[ETL]

"Sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating through them. As the rock dissolves, spaces and caverns develop underground. Sinkholes are dramatic because the land usually stays intact for a while until the underground spaces just get too big. If there is not enough support for the land above the spaces then a sudden collapse of the land surface can occur. These collapses can be small, or, as this picture shows, or they can be huge and can occur where a house or road is on top.

The most damage from sinkholes tends to occur in Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. The picture to the left shows a sinkhole that quickly opened up in Florida, apparently eating a swimming pool, some roadway, and buildings."

http://water.usgs.gov/edu/sinkholes.html

[PGR88]

its just becoming ground-water, that’s all.

Someone with a well a long way away will probably be happy

[cripplecreek]

No mystery to it. In fact I doubt the USACE are "shocked" either.

Massive Drain Creates Giant Vortex in Lake Texoma in Oklahoma

A six to eight foot-diameter vortex was caught on camera at Lake Texoma in Oklahoma as officials opened up the Denison Dam to drain the overflowing lake, an official said.