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In pictures: Texas sinkhole [pretty amazing]
BBC.com ^
| Thursday, 8 May 2008
| staff writer
Posted on 05/08/2008 8:26:14 AM PDT by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame
An isolated field in Liberty County sits several feet lower This field doesn't look all that isolated to me???
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:30:10 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: yankeedame
Will make a great pond..................
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:30:34 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: yankeedame
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:31:40 AM PDT
by
PeterFinn
(McCain in 2008 means Hillary in 2012.)
To: yankeedame
Bush’s fault. Global warming, too.
To: PeterFinn
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:34:00 AM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
To: PeterFinn
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought when oil rigs extracted the underground oil that they needed to pump in water to replace it and thus keep the land above from sinking.
To: yankeedame
To: yankeedame
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:36:11 AM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
To: yankeedame
“several” = 150 feet according to that caption. Wow.
Wonder what that gray stuff at the bottom is? Just mud?
}:-)4
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:37:25 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
To: Carolinamom
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought when oil rigs extracted the underground oil that they needed to pump in water to replace it and thus keep the land above from sinking.Prehaps several wells ago, some genius of a rapidly rising manager realized they could save some money.
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:38:16 AM PDT
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fso301
To: yankeedame
I’m thinking a property tax appeal is in the works right about now.
To: SF Republican
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:38:55 AM PDT
by
stevio
(Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
To: yankeedame
I wonder what’s in those blue-green tanks.
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:39:06 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: yankeedame
Your all wrong. This is the meteor crater that killed the dinosaurs. It's obvious that when it hit global warming covered the Earth as the dust and debris covered the sun.
I saw it on the Discovery channel. They had cartoon depictions that looked really real, so it must be true.
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:40:48 AM PDT
by
chuckles
To: Dixie Yooper
Doesn’t look like several feet either.
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:43:42 AM PDT
by
east1234
(It's the borders stupid!)
To: DuncanWaring
Open the door, I’ll git my lighter and have a look.
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To: Dixie Yooper
It’s not really “several feet lower” either.
To: yankeedame
some vids on Khou.com.
According to a geologist, this is a cave-in of a salt dome. There are lots of those in the area and a smaller sinkhole appeared a year or so ago and quit growing after one day.
I can’t understand why they didn’t move the tractor by attaching a cable and hauling it away. The vids clearly show it on the ground near the hole and then falling into it as the hole widened.
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posted on
05/08/2008 8:48:15 AM PDT
by
wildbill
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