Posted on 06/10/2019 3:45:39 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A large puddle of tar encroached on the sidewalk and natural gas appeared to rise from the street of the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles Friday.
CBSLA’s Brittany Hopper was standing near the puddle located across the street from The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, a national natural landmark where tar has been seeping up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
But the tourists — like Rick Stahl from the Pacific Northwest — had one more story to tell when he gets back home.
“We’re from Seattle,” Stahl said, “and you don’t see this oozing out of the streets. It’s amazing.”
“You see a little bit of tar oozing up between the pavement,” Kogan says, “all over the neighborhood. That’s not unusual but this seems to be flow tar. I’ve never seen this before.”
Not to mention the constant hissing sound coming from the ground — it’s methane.
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We live near Yellowstone and we have a hot spring that keeps the house warm in the winter. We’re used to it but we’re also very aware that we live near one of the largest volcanoes in the world.
So we were to suddenly see something >> different << happening we’d be out of here like a cat shot in the ass!
I’d suggest that folks who live in LA double check their emergency supplies and their evacuation plans because the earth often tells us when something big is about to happen.
WD-40 works pretty good for tar as well.
Someone will still blame this on fracking or GlobalClimateWarmingChange.
That’s what they should be worried about, not a miniscule extra amount of CO2 that plant can absorb and release oxygen.
La Brea is a fascinating place to visit and there’s a park around it. I’ve been there a few times and there’s always this or that area of the lawn taped off as tar is seeping at that spot at that time. Smells like an old gas station. So i think this is nothing unusual. It just happens to be coming up in that particular spot.
T. Rex has awakened from his hibernation
and soon will eat Los Angeles
And then there was the earthquake today in Cleveland, Ohio, is something going on?
It is a fun and fascinating place to visits. Fantastic exhibits in the visitor center. Far, far better than the Hollywood Walk with the stars in the sidewalk.
Exactly right. I first went there in the early 1970s and was surprised to see all the spots where it was just coming up out of the ground ... many of them weren't taped off and people had tried to dig into the spots with small sticks they had found. It's been going on for thousands of years and will continue to go on for thousands of years.
T. Rex?
It always seems to be Rodan or some other Japanese creature?
This spot this time.
Glowbull heating causing muvver erf to expand. And-——— Trump’s fault of course.
It’s a sanctuary city, so there should be plenty of workers who can clean it up.
How do you know it wasn’t a liquid turd? It wa on the sidewalk and there was some pretty smelly gas.
Trump’s fault of course.
As a kid, we lived in Long Beach, long before Trump.
Tar used to bubble up in the backyard!
Maybe Earl Warren’s fault?
If they would pump the oil it out faster, maybe this could be avoided?
I’ve never seen a cat shot in the ass, but that image just made me laugh. We own five, and now I have this picture stuck in my mind. LOL
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