"About a year ago, bubbles of unknown origin were reported in the Bayou Corne area. At first, a pipeline leak was expected, but by August a sinkhole formed. About 350 residents of the nearby community of Bayou Corne were evacuated. What started as a few bubbles eventually grew to an unstable 24 acre pond that, as we saw in Part I, continues to suck in land and cypress trees. The Google Earth images below compare “before” and “after”.