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VIDEO: Concerns Grow Over Large Crack Along Lake Whitney Cliff
nbcdfw.com ^ | 03/17/15 | nbcdfw.com

Posted on 03/17/2015 11:32:12 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER

A giant fracture in a limestone cliff overlooking Lake Whitney is threatening another luxury home, less than a year after a mansion was burned to the ground before it could collapse and fall into the North Texas lake below.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 57thstate; cliff; crack; geographyishard; house; lake; stateofconfusion; whereislakewhitney
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1 posted on 03/17/2015 11:32:12 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Thought it was a Whitney Houston crack story.
2 posted on 03/17/2015 11:34:53 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Take a crowbar to it. LOL


3 posted on 03/17/2015 11:36:50 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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4 posted on 03/17/2015 11:39:07 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: fungoking
Say "no" to crack.


5 posted on 03/17/2015 11:40:16 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Guess it’s going to have to burn to the ground again. /s


6 posted on 03/17/2015 11:40:23 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: fungoking

I thought it was about Oprah.


7 posted on 03/17/2015 11:40:31 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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8 posted on 03/17/2015 11:40:57 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Zeneta

Looks like the house might survive but they’ll have to play croquette somewhere else.


9 posted on 03/17/2015 11:41:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Concerns grow???

Any half backed fool could tell you that cliff’s going to collapse...only a matter of time...

They would be better off to intervene and collapse it under controlled circumstances.


10 posted on 03/17/2015 11:41:28 AM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: headstamp 2

Limestone + Water + Gravity = the limestone going into solution at some point.


11 posted on 03/17/2015 11:43:17 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Zeneta

Betcha that h/o renewal policy didn’t get issued.


12 posted on 03/17/2015 11:48:09 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Climate change strikes again.


13 posted on 03/17/2015 11:48:26 AM PDT by skimbell
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14 posted on 03/17/2015 11:48:31 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Zeneta

As a professional engineer, my advice is to stay on the landward side of the crack...


15 posted on 03/17/2015 11:48:41 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: cuban leaf

They’ll save some time and money mowing the grass.


16 posted on 03/17/2015 11:48:55 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: blackdog

Limestone never cracked before Global Climate Change.™

Clearly, this is Bush’s fault.


17 posted on 03/17/2015 11:55:53 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: fungoking

Think of it this way, your property taxes - along with your actual property line - are soon going down.


18 posted on 03/17/2015 11:57:32 AM PDT by Obadiah (Wind turbines, aka: bird choppers, cause earthquakes due to their harmonic frequencies.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER; All
How big is the lake?....the cliff collapsing would cause a tidal wave...what's on he other side.

FYI...I thin k the title insurance company has to pay up..because you can't convey title to something that isn't there anymore..

19 posted on 03/17/2015 11:57:38 AM PDT by ken5050 (When the GOP takes the Senate, it will tie Obama's hands for two years. How will he play golf?)
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To: blackdog

A little pinning and some concrete and she’ll be good as new.


20 posted on 03/17/2015 11:59:57 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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