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Louisiana's 'Bayou Corne' Evacuated: Swamp Gas Turns into Monster Sinkhole
WAFB ^ | 08/04/12 | youtube

Posted on 08/04/2012 4:15:55 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper

"Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Friday in Assumption Parish after officials ordered an immediate evacuation of the Bayou Corne area because a slurry area appeared to be expanding.

"The fear of the unknown prompted the evacuation order," said John Boudreaux, director of the parish's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. "The fear of it possibly compromising either the nearby pipelines or cavern storage areas, that could cause a risk to the community."

Boudreaux said about 150 homes are affected by the order. He was unsure how long it would remain in effect. The governor's emergency proclamation extends through Sept. 2 unless terminated earlier."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bubbles; earthquake; sinkhole
For those of you that followed this episode of tectonic and indigestion...lol
1 posted on 08/04/2012 4:16:09 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper
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To: Errant

http://www.fox8live.com/story/19191265/gas-bubbles-up-in-bayou-corne-community

You might want to ping your LA buds....lol


2 posted on 08/04/2012 4:17:26 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper
Geeze, what a bunch of ungrateful Cajuns!
3 posted on 08/04/2012 4:29:16 PM PDT by EggsAckley ( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply ! ! ..)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Sounds like the place is gonna blow sky high and that will be the end of fracking. How convenient. Just like the BP oil spill stopped exploration in the gulf...now they are going to stop it on land. The environmental Marxists will be salivating over this and we will just let them win yet another battle in the war to secure our future and energy independence. So sad.

Prayers up.


4 posted on 08/04/2012 4:35:37 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Pole shift coming soon to a town near you!


5 posted on 08/04/2012 4:45:41 PM PDT by crazydad (-` sd)
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To: penelopesire

No fracking there. They are on top of an enormous salt deposit. The salt is mined by pumping fresh water down to the salt and bringing the resulting brine up another pipe. The caverns created by brine mining are gigantic and are used after the mining is completed to store compresses natural gas or, in a few cases, compressed air which is used in Compressed Air Energy Storage power generation. It would appear that there is leakage of odorless natural gas from the top of a cracked or collapsing cavern.

Frankly, it would be hard to gin up environmental panic over this and hurt gas production.

Of course, if the salt dome collapses, we might see some homes swallowed up in the resulting sinkhole.

The video at the site is interesting...just cain’t unnerstan Cajun.


6 posted on 08/04/2012 5:03:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Nothing new for Louisina...

Lake Peignur

7 posted on 08/04/2012 5:15:20 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks for the info. This has happened before and the world did not end.

Found this that might interest some:
Lake Peigneur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHol4ICeDoo


8 posted on 08/04/2012 5:18:02 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

They are now closing i70 cause of a 36 inch pipeline bend near the area. Trying to power down gas flow now. Been surfing the net on this and as expected the environazi’s are already trying to make hay out of it. If it’s not fracking related, they will start blaming pipelines and there goes the southern leg of the Keystone Pipeline. These people get all gitty when this stuff happens. I despise them. Just reading their bile on the news comment sections makes my blood boil. They love to scare the piss out of folks with disinformation and agenda driven mass causality scenarios.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHol4ICeDoo


9 posted on 08/04/2012 6:02:58 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: winoneforthegipper

So, it’s an unsafe corne hole?


10 posted on 08/04/2012 6:08:41 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Totally different set of circumstances. Though the salt deposit and associated mining might play a factor in this I would suspect not.


11 posted on 08/04/2012 6:30:57 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

Thanks for the Laugh!....lol


12 posted on 08/04/2012 6:31:43 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

All corner holes are unsafe, as they all are filled with gas and could blow at any time.


13 posted on 08/04/2012 6:45:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: winoneforthegipper; The Cajun
gas-bubbles-up-in-bayou-corne-community

Ahh cher... I bet dat Boudreaux done took a dump in Bayou Corne A-Gin!

14 posted on 08/04/2012 6:48:45 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant
Mey, it sound like the top of de salt dome is about to let go.
And here I was tinking it was just a surface gas pocket.
I sur waz rong on dat.
15 posted on 08/04/2012 10:00:52 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: Joe 6-pack; penelopesire

Thanks for posting the video of the Lake Peignur disaster. Fascinating stuff. Incredible that nobody was killed in that.


16 posted on 08/04/2012 10:32:44 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: The Cajun

Shoot you waz rong, You better done got yourself away from dat ting.


17 posted on 08/04/2012 10:33:17 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant
You better done got yourself away from dat ting.

I live about 35-30 mile away from dare, ain't worried. Troy and his kin from Swamp People in Pierre Part better be keeping an eyeball out, thay mighty close for too much comfort :)

18 posted on 08/04/2012 11:38:26 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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