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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: rottndog

That’s what I was thinking too - why not have it removed instead of waiting and hoping it will not crack deeper in toward the house before it falls off.

Weird.


41 posted on 03/17/2015 12:47:00 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: exPBRrat

Well I suppose there’s an available self sealing grout that could be pumped in there to prolong the inevitable.


42 posted on 03/17/2015 12:48:27 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: Zeneta

time for a cliff splitting party like we do in florida for hurricanes


43 posted on 03/17/2015 12:53:42 PM PDT by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

lets get the ferguson, MO liars telling the cliff, grass up don’t split..accuse the cliff of racism about calling it a crack..then when it breaks off tell the rest of the land mass it has to go too, I mean we cant have a piece of a cliff feeling threatened can we..


44 posted on 03/17/2015 12:56:46 PM PDT by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Well, there goes the neighborhood


45 posted on 03/17/2015 1:00:05 PM PDT by toucan
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To: WayneS
As a professional engineer, my advice is to stay on the landward side of the crack...

I need more information before I decide if your advice is valuable. Are you an ME, EE, ChemE, Petroleum Engineer? If you're not a CE, then I question your qualifications to render such advice.

46 posted on 03/17/2015 1:10:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

TX could really make use of it. Put a frame shack at the bottom of the cliff, put in 5 Death Row prisoners, and wait.


47 posted on 03/17/2015 1:11:18 PM PDT by lurk
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I know where they are building the mother in laws cottage.
48 posted on 03/17/2015 1:13:14 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Hot Tabasco
When it finally falls off, will the property owner get a reduction in his property taxes?

No, they'll go up. They have more lakefront now.

49 posted on 03/17/2015 1:13:20 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Civil & Agriculural


50 posted on 03/17/2015 1:14:07 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: lurk

When it goes, the shock waves are gonna float major lunker bass to the top.. seen it happen.


51 posted on 03/17/2015 1:14:44 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Hey, nature happens.


52 posted on 03/17/2015 1:16:18 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: aces

time for a cliff splitting party like we do in florida for hurricanes


That’s what I’m thinking.

I figure one stick of dynamite might end the party to soon.

M-80’s may not be enough.

But, if they picked up a few hundred M-80’s and several cases of beer, they could make a weekend out of it.

Great fun either way.


53 posted on 03/17/2015 1:17:16 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Who builds a house on an overhanging cliff?

Any idiot can look at the rest of the shore there and see is is an ongoing cleaving of rock. Building a house within yards of the edge is Darwin material.

54 posted on 03/17/2015 1:17:39 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Zeneta

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.

It’d probably be best to abandon every structure on that cul-de-sac.


55 posted on 03/17/2015 1:18:16 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Zeneta

Might make a nice mini-tsunami when it does go.


56 posted on 03/17/2015 1:20:22 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: WayneS

It definitely looks as if there was a house there.

That would suggest that regardless of the fire, most of it fell into the lake.

I still think the home will be fine.

Either way, it doesn’t look as though the homes collapse would come without warning.


57 posted on 03/17/2015 1:26:56 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: shotgun
I was wondering if anyone would catch that. :-)


58 posted on 03/17/2015 1:29:56 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

It does look like the cliff is undercut quite a bit. It also looks like the burned-down house was *right next door*.


59 posted on 03/17/2015 1:31:21 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: doorgunner69

No doubt !!!

Surfs up Dude !!!


60 posted on 03/17/2015 1:31:32 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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