Published: November 23rd, 2012 at 7:46 am ET
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Title: Giant sinkholes a problem in Queens after Hurricane Sandy
Source: ABC 7
Author: Jeff Pegues, Jennifer Matarese
Date: Nov 20, 2012
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Giant sinkholes a problem in Queens after Hurricane Sandy
First they were flooded by Hurricane Sandy and now they’re being swallowed by sinkholes.
Some of the sinkholes are 10 feet deep in Queens.
Residents are worried about further damage to their homes and whether the ground their standing on could literally cave and crumble. [...]
Officials with the Department of Environmental Protection [...] say they believe it has something to do with a sewer line that runs under the backyards. [...]
Title: Rockaway residents getting that sink-ing feeling
Source: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Author: Lisa L. Colangelo And Irving Dejohn
Date: Nov 19, 2012
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Caption: Residents have noticed a cluster of similar holes on their properties, causing alarm that the street may collapse.
[...] Storm recovery volunteer Steve Major picked up on a pattern of the holes as he was going door-to-door for a relief group last week along Beach 68th St. near Bayfield Ave.
“I’m extremely concerned that what’s visible isn’t the full extent of it,” said Major, an engineer and construction worker who came from Phoenix to lend a hand in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. [...]
After the deluge, the water must have gone underground, said [Resident Adolfo Richter], 67. “It’s down there somewhere and now I’m really scared.” [...]
Meanwhile, mother-of-two Danielle Hernandez said she fears for the welfare of her grandmother, who has the sinkholes in her backyard. “It’s nerve wracking,” she said. “You don’t know. The ground might shift.”
Title: Sinkholes in Far Rockaway Caused by Storm-Damaged Pipes, City Says
Source: New York Times
Author: COLIN MOYNIHAN
Date: November 22, 2012
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[...] “I’m worried that my house is going to sink,” Eleanor Alexandre said recently, surveying one of the holes, which was several feet behind her home on Beach 67th Street. “That hole looks like it has gotten bigger.”
For more than a week, the origin of the sinkholes was a mystery. But on Thursday, New York City officials said it had been solved: they were caused by damage to water and sewer lines. [...]
A spokesman for the city’s Environmental Protection Department said workers had determined that the sinkholes had been caused by damage to private water and sewer lines that run beneath backyards.
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Published: November 23rd, 2012 at 7:46 am ET
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City or country, there's a world under our feet, out of sight, usually ignored. Vulnerable.
Infrastructure. Communications, drinking water, sewage, gas, oil, electricity, transport.
Ageing.
Vulnerable to flood, earthquake, mishap, sabotage, lack of funding.
The vast microscopic life of the soil. The base of the land-based foodchain. We need more than dirt – itself being lost in large amounts – and petrochemical-derived fertilizer if we're to eat.
Vulnerable. To radiation, chemicals, compaction, the accumulation of chemical salts from irrigation, acid rain, and yes, light itself.
I probably left a few things out.
While urban sinkholes are adding insult to injury for these people, I suggest it's the tip of an iceberg we're cruising toward, or a banana peel on the edge of a cliff.
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Well…now..if islands seem to have shifted…I would suspect something more going on..than broken pipes.
http://enenews.com/sandy-appears-to-have-shifted-islands-near-njs-oyster-creek-nuclear-plant-surge-smashed-through-homes-close-by-feds-begin-special-inspection-at-facility
For lack of a better term..shoooosh.
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Climate-changing methane 'rapidly destabilizing' off East Coast, study finds By Miguel Llanos, NBC News
A changing Gulf Stream off the East Coast has destabilized frozen methane deposits trapped under nearly 4,000 square miles of seafloor, scientists reported Wednesday. And since methane is even more potent than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas, the researchers said, any large-scale release could have significant climate impacts.
Temperature changes in the Gulf Stream are "rapidly destabilizing methane hydrate along a broad swathe of the North American margin," the experts said in a study published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
Using seismic records and ocean models, the team estimated that 2.5 gigatonnes of frozen methane hydrate are being destabilized and could separate into methane gas and water… http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/24/14670511-climate-changing-methane-rapidly-destabilizing-off-east-coast-study-finds
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Recent changes to the Gulf Stream causing widespread gas hydrate destabilization
Benjamin J. Phrampus & Matthew J. Hornbach
Nature 490, 527–530 (25 October 2012) doi:10.1038/nature11528
Received 25 May 2012 Accepted 20 August 2012 Published online 24 October 2012
The Gulf Stream is an ocean current that modulates climate in the Northern Hemisphere by transporting warm waters from the Gulf of Mexico into the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans1, 2. A changing Gulf Stream has the potential to thaw and convert hundreds of gigatonnes of frozen methane hydrate trapped below the sea floor into methane gas, increasing the risk of slope failure and methane release…http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v490/n7421/full/nature11528.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20121025
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November 20, 2012
Methane Is Popping Up All Over Boston …In Boston and many other aging cities in the Northeast, a maze of underground low-pressure natural gas pipelines are riddled with leaks. The research team, led by Nathan Phillips, an associate professor of earth and environment at Boston University, measured atmospheric methane concentrations along all 785 miles of road within Boston’s city limits with a highly sensitive device known as a cavity-ring-down mobile CH4 analyzer.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/methane-is-popping-up-all-over-boston/
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Portable CH4 Analyzers are the hot gadget of the 2012 holiday season!
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Natural gas explosion in Massachusetts injures more than a dozen people, destroys two buildings
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/natural-gas-explosion-massachusetts-levels-buildings-injures-dozen-people-article-1.1207208#ixzz2D6y8JuwR
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Digging tunnels by the coast has but one conclusion, just a matter of when.
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We hit the banana peel and we're up in the air about to land.
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