Posted on 03/17/2015 11:32:12 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
Lol! God bless duct tape and Get ‘er dun!
Two things I learned from reading “A Rock and a Hard Place”, the true story of hiker Aron Ralston:
1. Always carry a really sharp knife.
2. Geologic time includes now.
Well, it is in Texas...
Oh, I sure hope somebody has set up a 24/7 HD camera to record it falling.
Nope. They still have the same amount of land. The topography is just different. A big chunk of their land that was on a cliff is now under water.
It will make it a bit difficult to find the old survey stakes though.
I think a wetback ditch digger (or an Undocumented Democrat Welfare Recipient as they are now referred to) is qualified to render that advice.
After looking at the video, I bet you can go out there at night and HEAR the thing cracking and moving......
It’s there, its just lower and covered with water.
5,000 gallons of Crazy Glue could do the trick. Don’t use Gorilla Glue though, it expands as it cures. Bad deal.
PS... don’t build near over hanging weathered limestone cliffs.
Lake Winfrey...
A few thousand gallons of Gorilla Glue would fix it.
That’s going to be one heck of a wave!
Hold muh beer. I’m going to go out and jump up and down on it to see how loose it is.
That’s an idea!
Ok.. My favorite post of the week!
Looks like they’ll soon be less lawn to mow.
Sheesh, guys...that was a joke!
Like your comment about the ditch digger being qualified enough. It’s a “duh!”, huh?
“The slab immediately above and to the right of the house in that photo appears to be the foundation of the house that was burned last year.”
I wonder how much water was used by the firefighters as they practiced - and how much ended up draining onto/into the neighbor’s yard with the crack?
Probably not enough. I’m still going with a minor leak from the swimming pool over a long time.
As someone that has built pools, I disagree.
A concrete or Gunite pool (gunite is basically cement with sand as the aggregate vs gravel),is held together with rebar. It can and will float like a boat regardless of what happens around it.
This home owner spent a lot of money to build a pool in what is basically rock. Soft rock, no doubt. Concrete/cement is stronger than limestone.
There are three things that can cause major problems for a pool builder. Rock, fill and water. Both rock and fill can be dealt with, but not without additional expense. Water is the worst. I’ve built pools under all three conditions and the “Pool from hell” was built in/on an underground stream.
In the video and photos, I think that if the pool was built properly, it would not crack and would fall into the lake whole.
Thanks. Do pools in Texas need to be drained periodically? And how do they do that? I’m guessing they don’t just dump it over the edge?
Then again, that whole area is going to end up in the lake at some point. Just like where I live - although I’m probably good for another 1 million years.
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