Crude Oil Bubbles Up Into Woman's Home

NBC5i.com ^ | 02/03/2004 | Unattributed

[VRWCmember]

Crude Oil Bubbles Up Into Woman's Home
Officials Find No Cause For Sticky Situation

LONGVIEW, Texas -- When visiting the home of an east Texas woman, you can't help but think about the television show "The Beverly Hillbillies." That's because Leila Letourneau's home is literally filling up with so-called "black gold." Oil, that is.

According to Letourneau, she returned home Monday to find that an inch of raw crude oil had seeped up from the ground and into her home.

Despite the unusual occurrence, Letourneau said hers is the only house in the neighborhood to be affected.

"I went to both neighbors on either side to see if they were having any problems, across the street to see if anybody else had come home to this type situation, and none of them (...had) anything," Letourneau said.

Fire officials are investigating the cause of the problem.

Meanwhile, Letourneau said there are a number of pumping jacks near her neighborhood, but that there were no reported leaks.

Slideshow: Tour The Oily House

[VRWCmember]

I wonder if she was out shootin' at some food.

[So Cal Rocket]

So she packed up the car and moved to Bev-er-lee

[RightOnline]

Black gold...............Texas tea.................

[cripplecreek]

So how long do you think it will be before the conspiracy theorists decide the president will declare war on her?

[RightOnline]

Betcha she's a-gonna git 'er a cement pond!

[Johnny_Cipher]

According to Letourneau, she returned home Monday to find that an inch of raw crude oil had seeped up from the ground and into her home.

Seeped? That's good - NO FLOOD FOR OIL!

[ovrtaxt]

Looks like Leila's a wealth magnet. Bet she won't have problems finding a date.

[flying Elvis]

Hills that is; swimming pools, movie stars.

[TexasNative2000]

Hope she owns the mineral rights . . . . .

[Dog Gone]

Someone needs to put a drilling rig in her living room.

[reagan_fanatic]

Well, the next thing you know old Leila's a millionaire...

Wonder what her kinfolks told here to do..

[kingu]

I wonder where those environmental weenies are now. Shouldn't this become the next Love Canal? There should be a multi-billion dollar clean up of her neighborhood... </sarcasm>

[cyborg]

governmental eminent domain

[Koblenz]

Wasn't there an episode of Beavis and Butthead where they thought they struck oil but really hit the sewer line?

[RAY]

The patriarch of the Letourneau family is famous for the giant earth moving equipment sold world wide -- his designs are carried forward in many modern machines. He was a self taught designer and engineer.

He started a technical college in Longview TX name after him. I suspect this lady owns many "jumping jacks" (oil wells)! The good thing is that she probably also owns the mineral rights to the land her house sits on.

[ElkGroveDan]

Hope she owns the mineral rights . . . .

You'd be surprised. I most areas that have been properly explored for minerals resources, properties in residential home developments are sold with only minimal rights, and rates of payment already negotiated.

I grew up in a residential tract in the the foothills above Los Angeles (Granada Hills), and our home was apparently sitting on some oil and natural gas. My dad used to show me the small checks he would get once a year.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Don't miss the oily house tour!

BTW, she should go into town and get a facial, and perhaps buy some nice dresses at Bloomingdales, and oh, hire a decorator quick 'cause...

[null and void]

*groan*

[fso301]

Unlikely to do her any good without mineral rights.

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

Ms. LeTourneau is the granddaughter of R.G. LeTourneau, the man to which you refer. She works as a nurse.