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Mother Earth takes revenge
Mother Earth takes revenge
A 900-foot (and growing!) sinkhole has opened up in a Texas town, swallowing oil equipment, an 18-wheeler and everything else in its way. picked by lynxears 1 week ago
tags sinkhole Texas oil salt water salt dome collapse
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 pocksucket
1 week ago
I was just watching this on the news and came looking to see if anyone had posted it.

BBC video here
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 lynxears
1 week ago
« pocksucket : I was just watching this on the news and came looking to see if anyone had posted it.

BBC video here
There are lots of video links in the story, as well as a slideshow, too.
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 chinook
7 days ago
Mother Earth says:

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!



And with that, I'm off to go look at a scientific news article relating to this event. Salt domes aren't major plays here where I'm from, so I think I have some reading ahead of me!
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 lynxears
7 days ago
« chinook : Mother Earth says:

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!

And with that, I'm off to go look at a scientific news article relating to this event. Salt domes aren't major plays here where I'm from, so I think I have some reading ahead of me!
Heh! I expected you might be interested in ravenous Earth.
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 teresag
6 days ago
On priorities:

“If it comes this way, I'm going to load up all my dogs up, my wife up and my daughter up and I'm leaving,” insisted Collins. “I ain't staying.”
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