Published: August 20th, 2012 at 11:22 am ET
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Title: Sinkhole neighbors don’t know when they might be allowed back home
Source: Times Picayune
Author: Richard Thompson
Date: Aug 20, 2012
Source: Times Picayune
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Steve Horton, an earthquake scientist at the University of Memphis who worked with the U.S. Geological Survey to conduct seismic monitoring in the community, said residents had reported “feeling shaking, even to the point that there was some minor damage” as early as June 8, correlating with when the gas bubbles were reported.
By mid-July, Horton said, tremors occurred 10 to 20 times a day, and around July 24, the rate had “increased sharply and significantly,” with hundreds per day. They stopped Aug. 2, and the next morning, the sinkhole was discovered.
That was enough for Preston Guilbeau, 66, and his wife, Vickie, who left their home of more than a decade and headed for Lake Charles.
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“It puts all of our lives in danger,” she said.
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Title: Crews finish phase of work
Source: The Advocate
Author: Robert Stewart
Date: Aug 20, 2012
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Sonny Cranch, a spokesman for Texas Brine Co. LLC of Houston [...] said Sunday that sinkhole conditions had remained virtually unchanged since Friday.
However, authorities were unable to fly over the slurry area Sunday because of heavy rain, said John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
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Update: New flyover video here
Published: August 20th, 2012 at 11:22 am ET
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"Size compared to Superdome"
Scientific measures would lead to a calculabe value. It's easy to compare values – but how many eiffel towers do you need to get one superdome?
By the way "a" or "the" superdome?
h.
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been gone a while…. is this one taken seriously?
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"heavy rain" and "sinkhole" in the same sentence is not reassuring.
"virtually unchanged" is not the same as "unchanged".
"sinkhole conditions" could mean almost anything.
"authorities were unable to fly over the slurry area" begs the question "how do they know it is virtually unchanged?"
The more they tell us, the less we know.
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It's virtually an average sinkhole.
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Some areas of the USA become the dumping grounds and toxic waste producers for the nation. For every success or prevention the EPA has a number too many epic failures. With no offense intended to those in Louisiana and only concern for their health it seems Louisiana has been unofficially labeled "Okay to contaminate". Between the oil companies (BP oil spill) and chemical companies that contaminate areas for example…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrisonville,_Louisiana
and the government…
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/sabotaging-future.html
Plus the nuclear industry and NRC I wonder if we are the dumbest species to ever have evolved.
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correction…
"the EPA has a number too many epic failures"
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"…I wonder if we are the dumbest species to ever have evolved."
We won't be here long enough to find out, but if I had to guess, on the whole we're pretty shortsighted.
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Cancer Alley
Just add the radioactive sink hole to the list…
http://www.nola.com/speced/unwelcome/
http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/cancer-alley-
big-industry-bigger-illness-along-mississippi-river.html
“Louisiana had the second-highest death rate from cancer in the U.S. in 2002; it had also been ranked second in the U.S. by the EPA for total onsite releases of chemicals and pollutants.”
Lots more on the internet if you want to research it.
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I must ask-
of Louisiana was second on both counts,
is the same state found at number one in both lists?
It'd seem likely….
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I must ask-
if Louisiana was second on both counts,
is the same state found at number one in both lists?
It'd seem likely….
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I feel sorry for Assumption Parish..
A blow out in 2010..that received little media mention.
http://bpoilslick.blogspot.com/2010/08/huge-oil-blowout-in-assumption-parish.html
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The big problem here is residual chemical stew from fracking operations being placed in salt caverns. Hopefully this will put some kind of curb of what can be freely done with fracking chemicals. Being put in a salt dome is just plain stupid or criminal, take your pick.
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