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Sinkhole update................ “Heed evacuation orders” | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24682341  Poland09/30/2012 10:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Natural Gas/Methane is odorless. Meaning that if you walk into a confined space with a high enough concentrate of it you wont know it until it's too late. Gas companies add a chemical to it called "mercaptan" which is sulfur based and thus makes the gas smell like rotten eggs. They add this so that one knows they have a leak present. If you went out to the sink hole you wouldn't be able to smell the gas at all, because it's unrefined and straight from the source. If you do smell anything at all it's from the rotten earth being "stewed" up. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24283440  United States09/30/2012 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hasn't this sink=hole doom run it's course yet ??? Quoting: mikebo2 It's not like a sink-hole is something new. You shush up... they said its gonna split the continent in two and they are never wrong!!! No you shush up! They say it is no different than road kill smell, so if you are sick from it, it's on you. And nothing is going to happen, go home and go back sleep we have it all under control. nothing to worry about, it's just a lil ol sinkhole. Yeah that's what they said in Marion, Ohio too. At River Valley High School kids were getting leukemia at a rate higher than the national average COMBINED. My aunt lived near there and we spent alot of time at her house when I was younger (my Mom ended up getting leukemia and is now dead) but to make a long story short, the EPA was called in to do an "investigation" on what was going on at the school over summer break. They found barrels of toxic waste underneath the school and found that it had been built over an old military toxic waste dump. The EPA said nothing was wrong and it was completely "safe" YET, they shipped the children off to all different schools that September and tore down the school and built a new one. Miraculously the leukemia rate in the school went down significantly. HOWEVER, Marion still has a HUGE cancer rate because we grow and process GMO corn and soybeans right in the middle of town. Central Soya and Wyandot Popcorn..... |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 726900  Puerto Rico09/30/2012 11:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | None of my many friends in La. have expressed even a note of concern. One did say, "oh yeah, I think I did read something about a sinkhole over in assumption parish.". As if Assumption parish was another country away... I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. You doomtards are fun to watch. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24726089 United States09/30/2012 11:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 726900 Puerto Rico09/30/2012 11:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 726900 You doomtards are fun to watch. So this topic is a non-issue because of YOUR apathy? I'd be concerned if I were closer to the area, but, just not enough chicken little in me to freak out about a sink hole hundreds of miles away |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22017972 United States09/30/2012 11:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 726900 You doomtards are fun to watch. So this topic is a non-issue because of YOUR apathy? Agreed, bet he feels super smart behind his computer, full of apathetic pride. Guess what you live in one of the worst state in the country completely squatted on by the TPTB, fattest, sickest, poorest. Apathy has done well for you and your people. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22017972 United States09/30/2012 11:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 726900 You doomtards are fun to watch. So this topic is a non-issue because of YOUR apathy? Agreed, bet he feels super smart behind his computer, full of apathetic pride. Guess what you live in one of the worst state in the country completely squatted on by the TPTB, fattest, sickest, poorest. Apathy has done well for you and your people. Additionally you should be concerned because your fellow humans live near it and are suffering the result, regardless of the level of doom hype. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 20317174 United States09/30/2012 11:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Louisiana sinkhole engulfing entire 1-mile by 3-mile salt dome...The entire area of the 1-mile by 3-mile Napoleonville Salt Dome is sinking, according to Bayou Corne sinkhole evacuee Harry Boudreaux, [link to www.examiner.com] Quoting: S.A.W. The top of the sinkhole expanded to 4-acres large this week, swallowing more trees and part of a road built to expedite cleanup activities, according to officials. That was a 1500 square foot additional section of the earth that caved into it, according to parish officials, who have repeatedly stated that scientists expect the sinkhole to continue expanding. An oil slick in the sinkhole area is now so powerful, it can be smelled a half-mile from La. 70 that is near its boundary. The diesel vapors are making some residents ill, they say. Late last week, an unknown substance was found at the bottom of the cavern. Locals worry about an explosion, the earthquakes they are feeling, and that the sinkhole will consume them on any given night. They say that they have been frustrated for almost two months due to not being well enough informed earlier about matters such as the Texas Brine collapsing cavern near the sinkhole having radioactive waste pumped into it and the massive butane-filled well that is only 1500 feet from the collapsing salt cavern. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 726900 Puerto Rico09/30/2012 11:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 726900 You doomtards are fun to watch. So this topic is a non-issue because of YOUR apathy? Agreed, bet he feels super smart behind his computer, full of apathetic pride. Guess what you live in one of the worst state in the country completely squatted on by the TPTB, fattest, sickest, poorest. Apathy has done well for you and your people. You know nothing, NO is the fastest growing city in the country and the economy is booming. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 726900 Puerto Rico09/30/2012 11:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 726900 You doomtards are fun to watch. So this topic is a non-issue because of YOUR apathy? Agreed, bet he feels super smart behind his computer, full of apathetic pride. Guess what you live in one of the worst state in the country completely squatted on by the TPTB, fattest, sickest, poorest. Apathy has done well for you and your people. You know nothing, NO is the fastest growing city in the country and the economy is booming. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24726089 United States09/30/2012 11:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 726900 You doomtards are fun to watch. So this topic is a non-issue because of YOUR apathy? I'd be concerned if I were closer to the area, but, just not enough chicken little in me to freak out about a sink hole hundreds of miles away Yeah, that's the kind of response expected from the apathetic . . . as long as it does not directly affect you, it's no big deal, right? If what some claim is true about that sinkhole, it's going to affect a hell of lot more people than just those close to that area. Just like New Madrid . . . if it happens, America will never be the same. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24726089 United States09/30/2012 11:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 726900 You doomtards are fun to watch. So this topic is a non-issue because of YOUR apathy? Agreed, bet he feels super smart behind his computer, full of apathetic pride. Guess what you live in one of the worst state in the country completely squatted on by the TPTB, fattest, sickest, poorest. Apathy has done well for you and your people. You know nothing, NO is the fastest growing city in the country and the economy is booming. NO is a cesspool . . . how moronic for any humans to believe that a city should exist below sea level. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 726900 Puerto Rico10/01/2012 12:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 726900 You doomtards are fun to watch. So this topic is a non-issue because of YOUR apathy? I'd be concerned if I were closer to the area, but, just not enough chicken little in me to freak out about a sink hole hundreds of miles away Yeah, that's the kind of response expected from the apathetic . . . as long as it does not directly affect you, it's no big deal, right? If what some claim is true about that sinkhole, it's going to affect a hell of lot more people than just those close to that area. Just like New Madrid . . . if it happens, America will never be the same. You morons and your doom addiction is pathethic. Months from now after nothing has come from this (just like nothing came from the oil spill that was going to end the world) I'll chuckle when I think of you and your hysterics. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 726900 Puerto Rico10/01/2012 01:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | can I just add my .02, i'm sure you all will hate it but, oh wells. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16678904 I come from a place where we had NG wells all OVER the place, many of them ruptured or leaked, all the time. You would just go outside, and it would smell like you left the stove on, with no flame on in the kitchen, but outside... back in the good ol boy days when they'd get to it when they can... i used to set fireworks off next to said gaswell, maybe 50 feet away b/c after 10 years, it never did anything but stink b/c of the tracer in the gas, but it was strong, it never went boom. I really think you guys need to look into fuel air ratios, and just how difficult it is to get a FA explosion to work. Bubbles don't = boom. It took until the 1990's for them to even perfect FA bombs (MOAB, etc.), if it were that easy, it wouldn't have taken them 50 years longer than developing a fricking atomic bomb I'm not saying it couldn't happen, I'm not saying flour mill, coal mine, dust mill, NG explosions haven't happened.. what I'm saying is that it is has to be a perfect storm of many factors to all come together at just the same point in time to happen.... and usually in a confined space!! If it is to gas out, then only those areas with the correct ratio will explode, sorry, but true, it won't fly up the pipes all across the country and blow the states to smithereens... Look into Fuel Air explosions, how they are local, how they have to have a perfect mix and match of requisites, and how long it took to develop something like the MOAB/ etc... it doesn't just happen,, usually... your looking at a 1/100 shot here, but dooming over it. so, that's where I see this... I hope I'm RIGHT!!.. b/c I pray for no doom, honest, I do... Your sense of reason and lack of imagination are not welcome here.  Heheh, all sarcasm aside, thanks for this!!! lol, sorry, we even called the gas well whistler b/c so much gas escaped from it, it whistled through the hole in the pipe... gas company didn't seem to care. we had bonfires in that field, and would do fourth of july in that field, over decades of it whistling, we just learned that it just wouldn't happen... so, fuggit... I'm not saying it's not dangerous, but, man, so many things would have to come together! And that right there is the worst part about GLP to the uninitiated. People out there, possibly living in the affected area, might be stumbling upon threads like this while simply scouring google for SOMETHING of an answer as to what is going on only to get the fuck scared out of em after coming here. Real-world scenarios that aren't laden with bullshit, such as yours, are I think VERY helpful to the nail biter pissing themselves over the situation at hand. It was the same thing with the BP "disaster", Fukushima (I'm still mixed on that one, personally) and countless others in between. There are gems to be found on GLP, such as your $.02. It's unfortunate you gotta wade through so much crap to get there though sometimes. So true, the ignorant hysterics here are almost enough to make one lose faith in humanity. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 16845676 United States10/01/2012 07:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Gas pressure is increase in aquifer near giant sinkhole — Trying to relieve buildup for ‘public safety’ — Seismic activity related to pressure? (VIDEOS) [link to enenews.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 17544037 United States10/01/2012 08:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'd be concerned if I were closer to the area, but, just not enough chicken little in me to freak out about a sink hole hundreds of miles away Yeah, that's the kind of response expected from the apathetic . . . as long as it does not directly affect you, it's no big deal, right? If what some claim is true about that sinkhole, it's going to affect a hell of lot more people than just those close to that area. Just like New Madrid . . . if it happens, America will never be the same. You morons and your doom addiction is pathethic. Months from now after nothing has come from this (just like nothing came from the oil spill that was going to end the world) I'll chuckle when I think of you and your hysterics. Nothing came from the oil spill?? lol...Go say that to the face of a fisherman or a wildlife management officer.... You're such an asshole and don't even know it. |
| Top Hat Top Hat  User ID: 10235814 United States10/01/2012 08:21 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | n Im in baton rouge right now There will be no explosion. The butane tank was emptied days ago. This problem impacts 150 ppl max. And thosec150 have already been evacuated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24621641 No doom whatsoever. Move on. It's a pain for the locals, I'm sure, but it is a local problem just the same. Sure a very large area could and seems to be collapsing into the abyss of this salt dome, BUT IT'S NOT GOING to split the country in half for Christ's sakes. It will get only as big as the circumstance of the dome, worst case scenario. It's a confined space; therefore, it will likely not reach the proper ignition rich mixture EXCEPT at certain flair points, worst case scenario, if at all. Sure it's killing trees, but it's a local phenomenon. GLP has a strong tendency to take a small event and turn it into a worldwide catastrophe of monumental proportions. GLP is chock full of Chicken Littles, bar none. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 16845676 United States10/01/2012 08:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | n Quoting: Top Hat Im in baton rouge right now There will be no explosion. The butane tank was emptied days ago. This problem impacts 150 ppl max. And thosec150 have already been evacuated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24621641 No doom whatsoever. Move on. It's a pain for the locals, I'm sure, but it is a local problem just the same. Sure a very large area could and seems to be collapsing into the abyss of this salt dome, BUT IT'S NOT GOING to split the country in half for Christ's sakes. It will get only as big as the circumstance of the dome, worst case scenario. It's a confined space; therefore, it will likely not reach the proper ignition rich mixture EXCEPT at certain flair points, worst case scenario, if at all. Sure it's killing trees, but it's a local phenomenon. GLP has a strong tendency to take a small event and turn it into a worldwide catastrophe of monumental proportions. GLP is chock full of Chicken Littles, bar none. Small to those not affected and where is your compassion does it only kick in when there is death |
| grefey User ID: 24294934 United States10/01/2012 08:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This why I believe that the GOM oil spill was done intentionally(the well head is at the end of the New Madrid fault line) and not to kill us specifically although they really don't give a damn. But rather to relieve geological pressure in the GOM and on the NEW MADRID FAULT LINE, as there is no doubt in my mind that it was an intentional "comedy of errors" that occurred. In addition, if you watch the documentary "Gasland" you will notice that all the fracking that is being done is in areas of high geological stress or instability. Thousands of wells have been sunk around Yellowstone and smaller amounts in AK. I do not think this is a coincidence. It looks like they are trying to relieve stresses in the earth through mechanical means. I am no geologist but it makes sense to me. So the question is how much longer can they kept the lid on, so to speak? |
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| psyoptics User ID: 11919225 United States10/01/2012 10:02 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23768400 Your sense of reason and lack of imagination are not welcome here. Heheh, all sarcasm aside, thanks for this!!! lol, sorry, we even called the gas well whistler b/c so much gas escaped from it, it whistled through the hole in the pipe... gas company didn't seem to care. we had bonfires in that field, and would do fourth of july in that field, over decades of it whistling, we just learned that it just wouldn't happen... so, fuggit... I'm not saying it's not dangerous, but, man, so many things would have to come together! And that right there is the worst part about GLP to the uninitiated. People out there, possibly living in the affected area, might be stumbling upon threads like this while simply scouring google for SOMETHING of an answer as to what is going on only to get the fuck scared out of em after coming here. Real-world scenarios that aren't laden with bullshit, such as yours, are I think VERY helpful to the nail biter pissing themselves over the situation at hand. It was the same thing with the BP "disaster", Fukushima (I'm still mixed on that one, personally) and countless others in between. There are gems to be found on GLP, such as your $.02. It's unfortunate you gotta wade through so much crap to get there though sometimes. So true, the ignorant hysterics here are almost enough to make one lose faith in humanity. as i said pages ago.... there is not a gas company in the world that will joke about a possible GAS leak....think AC's before you type.... this would be the same gas that is coming out of your stove or gas oven.... does it not bust into flames EVERY TIME a spark happens....mine does. it does every freaking time i turn it on....every time...not just some or maybe once a week....BUT EVERY FREAKING TIME! and here again watch this video. this happen when the gas company failed to fix a leaky gas line in a house! [link to www.youtube.com] Last Edited by psyoptics on 10/01/2012 10:03 AM a good video editor can make anyone say anything the editor wants. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24716759 Ireland10/01/2012 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in N. Louisiana and am not concerned. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 726900 You doomtards are fun to watch. So this topic is a non-issue because of YOUR apathy? Agreed, bet he feels super smart behind his computer, full of apathetic pride. Guess what you live in one of the worst state in the country completely squatted on by the TPTB, fattest, sickest, poorest. Apathy has done well for you and your people. You know nothing, NO is the fastest growing city in the country and the economy is booming. Unfortunate choice of words there.... |
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| The Gallows User ID: 22888087 United States10/01/2012 10:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to hint.fm] Got a nice vortex pulling in air and moisture from the sinkhole area up to the New Madrid area. rhombus will set you free... — some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend. just what you want to be, you will be in the end! — if you can't face the truth it's probably raping you from behind. |
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