Published: February 26th, 2013 at 11:59 am ET
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Title: Residents angry as Assumption sinkhole continues collapsing
Source: WWL TV
Author: Katie Moore
Date: February 25, 2013
Residents angry as Assumption sinkhole continues collapsing [...]
Gary Hecox, a hydrogeologist with CB&I: “The sinkhole is constantly changing. It changes every time we go out there. Not just on the surface, but in the sub-surface [...] It appears that the sand and gravel that’s in the bottom of the sinkhole breaks up a large gas bubble into many small bubbles, just like an aquarium and that is a good thing, because if you get a single bubble up and have an ignition source you can have a flash over.” [...]
WWL: A flash over is an explosion, like the kind you can see if you leave the gas on too long before lighting a propane grill. But Hecox said a large natural gas bubble from the sinkhole lit by any ignition source could mean major damage on the surface. [...]
Wilma Subra, a chemist with the Louisiana Environmental Action Network: “A house acts like a tent. So, if it’s migrating up through the soil, and it’s being caught in the house, it’s building up concentrations in the house. And then if it reaches explosive level, then one little spark in the house would set it off.” [...]
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Published: February 26th, 2013 at 11:59 am ET
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I know I've said this before, and other as well, but there should be a forced evacuation of the area and a healthy compensation to all residents because they are not going to be able to go back to their houses.
This is far from over and it's been only dumb luck that no one is dead… yet.
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"The sinkhole is constantly changing." This is a slow motion nightmare beyond anything I can grasp – and enenews is the only visible to the masses site (with a pathetically low readership given the ELEs plaguing the planet) that covers the issue of the sinkhole. At least some people I have encountered know about Fukushima, but the sinkhole is a mystery that no one knows about or cares to investigate after I explain the situation, emphasizing the proximity to pipelines and electrical grids and nuclear power plants. No one cares. It has to be the fluoride. (Tamarind a good way to chelate fluoride from the body, btw.)
Thank you, Admin.
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It's amazing, isn't it? A real nightmare is unfolding, no one knows about it and instead people are watching reality tv. It's like living in a freaking alternate reality. We are so fukked.
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Kelly Ann, I can echo your experience. People are marginally aware of Fukushima—although most seem to think it's being "taken care of"—but hardly anyone has heard of the BC sinkhole. I am involved in a monthly film series in our small northern Cali town and last Thursday, before the main feature I treated our audience of 35 (of which only TWO besides myself knew of the sinkhole) to a four minute photo and video presentation of what has been going on down there.
I started with Google Earth's aerial view of the area before everything caved in. (And by the way, why hasn't G Earth updated its imagery from 2011? Afraid they might alarm the sleeping masses?) Video of bubbling in the bayou and people's yards (thank you, rainbeaudais), recent flyover, quotes from scientists & officials, the tie-in to the New Madrid fault, etc. I didn't try to sensationalize anything. Just the facts, but that was enough. Audience members were stunned.
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amberlight…..thank you for doing that. You would be surprised at just how many people 60 miles away have no idea…
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La. Sinkhole Evacuees Angry at Jindal as Dangerous Dome Collapses
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:20
http://beforeitsnews.com/gulf-oil-spill/2013/02/la-sinkhole-evacuees-angry-at-jindal-as-dangerous-dome-collapses-2441054.html
http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/10690/images/SH%20Where%20is%20Bobby_(1).jpg
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"At least one Bayou Corne energy evacuee, in her video below, says that she is living in her car."
That person is not a BC resident, or even a Louisiana resident. She is a self proclaimed homeless person from Great Barrington Ma. that drove down here to see what she could see. The story can be verified by watching her videos previous and after the one included in the article. She did not mean to mislead anyone in to thinking she was a resident forced to be living in her car, and has cleared that up in a follow up video. (and I was not the one that called her an idiot)
Heading to Louisiana
http://youtu.be/xQWUejAiXCw
Apology for Misleading
http://youtu.be/CkLXUah06cM
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In regards to residents that do not want to move because they are attached to their home, lived there my whole life or built it with my own hands. I can relate to the way you feel. My Grandfather was the exact same way.
A making the best of the worst option for you could be to look into a house mover. If this option interests you, now may be the time to bring it up as the issue of buyouts is getting a lot of attention in your state legislature and finally, the press.
Hang in there, keep fighting for what you believe in, I hope you are safe while you do.
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"Hang in there, keep fighting for what you believe in, I hope you are safe while you do."
Thank you 16P
Sometimes….many times, that's 'all' we need to hear.
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Breaking News item from DNR
The Office of Conservation is advising Assumption Parish officials and the public in the Bayou Corne area that CB&I and Itasca Group analysis of ongoing seismic monitoring has detected what appears to be an uptick in underground fluid movement below the sinkhole in the vicinity of the failed Oxy 3 cavern in the past 24 hours. As has been noted in earlier similar events, the fluid movement appears to be linked to observations of trees falling into the sinkhole, release of trapped debris from the sinkhole bottom and increased odor from hydrocarbons released to surface. CB&I and Itasca Group analysts have advised that, while the activity appears to represent no additional significant threat to the general area, operations directly on the sinkhole be suspended until subsurface activity slows again.
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JUST LIKE GOVERNMENT LOOKING OUT HOW TO FILL THEIR POCKETS PLAYING POLITICS AND FORGETTING THE PEOPLE.
Markww
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Louisiana is a sacrifice zone. Once you get a grip on that truth everything that's happening makes sense. Profit before people.
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A 'flash'..hovering gas buildup…..ignition…whooompffF!
Gee..I hadn't read like this since reading "Andersonville".
The lightning would cause the gasses produced by the human excrement to 'flash'.
The'burbs'are getting larger..productive.
The danger of 'flash'..will go on now..perhaps forever…I suppose.
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