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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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To: TexasCajun

21 posted on 03/17/2015 12:00:43 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: WayneS
As a professional engineer, my advice is to stay on the landward side of the crack...

We could soil pin that rock back together. Where is your sense of professional adventure? We are going to need an anit-gravity platform to support the hydro rock drill. We could anchor the cracked strata with a tractor beam while we pin the masses together with unobtanium and epoxy.

Don't forget, we now live in Utopia. Anything is possible.

22 posted on 03/17/2015 12:01:35 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: ken5050

If it breaks off, it is still there. They will just need a very long ladder to get down to mow the bottom part of the property.


23 posted on 03/17/2015 12:01:59 PM PDT by Klemper
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Surf’s up!


24 posted on 03/17/2015 12:02:56 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: fungoking

The upside is they will be closer to the lake.


25 posted on 03/17/2015 12:03:23 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

There isn’t enough duct tape on the planet..


26 posted on 03/17/2015 12:03:26 PM 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: SWAMPSNIPER

Who builds a house on an overhanging cliff?


27 posted on 03/17/2015 12:03:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: Parley Baer

What’s the old line..buy very cheap land in the Nevada desert..when the BIG ONE hits California, it’ll be waterfront property


28 posted on 03/17/2015 12:05:46 PM 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: SWAMPSNIPER

29 posted on 03/17/2015 12:08:01 PM PDT by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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To: mbarker12474

While working at a group home for at-risk boys residential
facility I heard one teen accused another of something.
The accused responded with “Man, you must be smokin’
butt crack!” It was the first time I heard the ‘butt’
part included so it took several seconds to fight off
the urge to laugh.


30 posted on 03/17/2015 12:08:51 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf ;-))
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To: blackdog

I’m guessing a leaky pool - have seen it several times.


31 posted on 03/17/2015 12:10:00 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
In July 2014, fire crews burned down a luxury home teetering atop a crumbling 75-foot limestone cliff over Lake Whitney, rather than wait for it to tumble into the water.

Looks like the fire department will have to do it again. Maybe this time they'll tell the family inside before they torch it.

32 posted on 03/17/2015 12:11:32 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina ("The power to tax is the power to destroy." -- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Bush’s fault... no pun intended!


33 posted on 03/17/2015 12:13:26 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: 21twelve

It’s a natural, inevitable process. Water and time always win.


34 posted on 03/17/2015 12:16:51 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: ken5050

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..


Interestingly enough.

In Wrightsville Beach, NC, at the north end there’s an inlet.

Over time, ocean currents had eroded the beach to such an extent that the Army Corps of Engineers had to come in sand bags the size of cars to keep the condominium complex from succumbing to the sea.

In the meantime, the sand being eroded was being deposited on the other side of the inlet.

Long story short. The last home, on the other side, suddenly found themselves with 100 plus yards of new beachfront.

Then folks started showing up claiming that years ago they owned homes there that were lost to the sea.

And they wanted to re-build their home where it previously stood.

What a mess !!!


35 posted on 03/17/2015 12:17:10 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: mbarker12474
That is not a crack.

It's called 'rear cleavage'.

36 posted on 03/17/2015 12:17:12 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: ken5050

You’re 100% absolutely fna skippy correct. A crack like that calls for the heavy artillery. It’s now Bondo time


37 posted on 03/17/2015 12:18:07 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: 21twelve

I’m guessing a leaky pool - have seen it several times.


I think the pool is fine from what I saw in the video.

If however the pool is leaking or cracking, then the house will probably go as well.

In a former life I built custom in-ground pools.


38 posted on 03/17/2015 12:26:33 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
When it finally falls off, will the property owner get a reduction in his property taxes?

Will his landscapers give him a reduction in their grass cutting fees?

One has to look at the positive side of things........

39 posted on 03/17/2015 12:43:39 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: Zeneta

Insurance companies should get a surcharge for someone reckless enough to build on a constantly eroding cliff like that...

...beautiful house and property though.


40 posted on 03/17/2015 12:45:24 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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