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- david76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Here's a link for additional information about the disaster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
The video is courtesy of the History Channel's "Engineering Disasters" series via YouTube. - othersomethings, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20The old guy's hat says "I survived Lake Peigeneur."
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16you didn't see the back of the old guy's hat??
front: "i survived lake peigneur"
back: "and all i got was this stupid hat" - dawgma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15That was ***** incredible.
It blows my mind that you never hear of stories like this at an earlier age. I hope this world holds a 1000 more stories like this that I've never heard of. Why is it that you hear endlessly about disasters like Hindenburg, but not something like this? Wow...
This is right up there with that coal mine that is burning under some abandoned American town... and it will continue to burn for another 200 years becuase no one knows how to put it out. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13You forgot the 3 dogs that died. :-/
May they rest in peace. - Falldog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Adam Savage unavailable for comment.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13invader: maybe http://digg.com/view/technology or http://digg.com/tech_news ?
- kevinh211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9some one needs to send this link to the myth busters, they said a ship couldn't be sucked under by a whirlpool
- colonelpanic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I saw this on digg a few months ago, cool story though.
- rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6For real... water vortexes, drilling platforms, boats, barges... how much technology does a story have to have to be worthy of the self-appointed Digg TechCops?
- dawgma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There is some good footage of the burning landscape of Centralia in this mini-doc:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=296376038844101265&q=Centralia - p1mpjuice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow, this means that they Mythbuster episode I watched yesterday (about whirlpools) was wrong!
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, it was on Damn Interesting, I believe. I dugg it again. I love his crap.
- acejones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I rode Lake Peigneur and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.
- peterfry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4more on Centralia mine fires + pics
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Scott Lake is little more than puddles after a week of slow drain into sinkholes.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060623/NEWS/606230389/1039
Lake goes down the drain as sinkholes appear
Fish die, other wildlife scramble to survive in Fla.; one hole is 200 feet wide
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13481962/
lake jackson
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/guide/sinkholes.html
Scientists warn of 'global catastrophe' (Extensive fires burning underground )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/844105/posts
The Smoldering Ruins of Centralia
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=479
How Does a Fire Burn for 92 Years?
One of the wildfires burning in Colorado was started by flames from an underground coal fire that "may have been burning since 1910."
http://www.slate.com/id/2066936/ - Poco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Am I the only one who had never heard of this Centralia thing before? Man, that's two new stories today.
- guregu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Centralia, PA is the town that is burning.
- rodan32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5We need someone at CafePress to get on that.
- jimbalaya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Story:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/PACENmine.html
probably beats living in LA. - rodan32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4A combination. Texaco contracted with Wilson Bros. Drilling or something.
- WeeklyGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wowwww
yeah the old guy with the hat is the best part. - zforrester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd say your comment is a little worse then katrina, as far as comments go.
A lake drains, a metropolitan city gets completely, and utterly destroyed? - perfectfire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What I want to know is if anybody has ever dived down to the mines and had a look around and maybe took some pictures.
- kob0724, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I wasn't aware that this was possible. On the one hand, its a horrible tradgedy. But on the other, its like when the deer tore up richards car in Tommy Boy. You can't help but stand back and say "That...was awesome." I'm probably going to hell for that.
- 3dfxgamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So all we need is to find a large lake over Centralia and drill through the bottom of it. Fire is out problem solved.
- cbdgr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3wow i have never know about this before, that must have been one heck of a mine. it must have enterd underground cavern or something
- SpamDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow... burning coal mines, swirling vortexs...
what else is there? - ferrari_f50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bring on the lawsuits from the History Channel to Youtube.
- geekuskhan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It seems like if they capped those vents the fire would smother itself.
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ive heard a couple of things like this
i remember my grandmother telling me about some midwest town i believe it was where the lake emptied and turned into a vortex that whipped around the edge of the lake in a swell and dragged all the buildings in with it and sent it out to the ocean or something.
also this has happened a few times in florida in karst topography because of sinkholes. one just recently was a man-made lake over by tampa i believe it was which left their boat docks high and dry but i heard of one in the 90s that dragged a bunch of alligators down with it and other animals who were fighting it out in the hole that remained.
also i recall a looong time ago seeing i think it was a picture in national geographic fire coming out of cracks in the ground and it was some mine in texas that had caught fire and it was natural gas burning through cracks in the desert floor.
thats nothing though, if you go back far enough in parts of africa there are the fossilized remnants of a natural fission reactor which resulted in too much natural uranium being in the same place. this general area is where alot of uranium ore is mined from.
i wish i had links but to anyone looking for more information on stuff like this thats all i can recall but may help your googling. - Depthfunction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Gosh, and I thought "intense sucking power" was a good thing.
- kdehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that is just mind bogglingly awesome. dugg++
- zforrester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can appreciate fine, delicate sarcasm
- Disgone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg for the old man who would rather buy fish now.
- zforrester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love your sentences.
They are adorable. - Kennedy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Classic!
- greenamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if it was a local company or a big oil company who owned the rig responsible?
- gettophilosophr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They mentioned that...as the enormous volume of water rushes in, it dissolves more and more of the salt. The water filled the mine, but also dissolved large portions of it away; the lake probably filled the mine and the entire salt bed.
The part that I think is great is the part where it drains and then immediately starts refilling with saltwater. :-D - GuyHitByTruck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh, it's in New Iberia! I've lived in Louisiana all my life, and I was watching this thinking to myself, "Where in the world is this lake, and why hadn't I heard or read anything about it before?"
- hayden.evans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1holy crap that lake got PWNED! the old guy is f'in hilarious hahaha
- intoflatlines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I remember learning about this in my environmental science class. Interesting stuff.
- PlJack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Double Digg!
Great stuff. - NikoKun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I knew someone would bring up Centralia, that town is such a strange place. Its been on fire underground for 40 years... and if the fire moves to a near by larger coal vain, it could burn for hundreds of years.
- xbxrx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2wow very interesting story, i never heard about this before. nice digg.
- ArchAngel21x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unbeknow? What the hell kind of word is that? Just say unknown.
- harshac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's the Google Map link
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=new+iberia,+louisiana&ll=29.981098,-91.972915&spn=0.063045,0.104113&t=h - Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here is a satelite map of Centralia, PA http://terraserver-usa.com/usgsentry.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=18&X=1934&Y=22589&W=3
- dallen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just got done watching that episode. I've noticed a few times now that myths that they've "busted" are actually possible. There was one a few weeks ago too, but I can't remember what it was. I didn't like the snowplow experiment on the whirlpool episode because they didn't take into account any other condition but the snowplow. I'd have liked them to consider cross winds and the possibility that the car was going around a curve. If the car was going fast enough around a curve its entirely possible (imo) that a snow plow traveling past that fast (70 mph) could give it that last kick to make it rollover.
- paulmike3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i thought this swirling vortex of doom was gonna be another oil fire in a cardboard box trick.
whew. -
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