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- RealmDown, on 03/20/2008, -5/+64Talk about pouring salt in the wound.....
- borez, on 03/20/2008, -0/+52Right lads...From now on, next time we drill, we do one of those survey things first.
- inactive, on 03/20/2008, -2/+32I don't think he was referring to the "lake people".
- screensnot, on 03/20/2008, -0/+25Now that's a sticky situation.
- happywaffle, on 03/20/2008, -0/+24No, for weirdest, I'm gonna have to go with the molasses flood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molasses_Flood
- chewbacca77, on 03/20/2008, -1/+24Amazing. It looks like the northern shore still has signs of the damage: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=lake+peigneur&ie=UTF ...
- slamcut, on 03/20/2008, -1/+24At least that guy got a spiffy hat.
- ChaosProfessor, on 03/20/2008, -0/+23Fish Turtles Frogs etc.
I like Turtles - smacksaw, on 03/20/2008, -0/+19Poor Aquaman
- KraftDinner101, on 03/20/2008, -0/+17Everyone report this *****.
- paperclipsNsoup, on 03/20/2008, -4/+21Bet they didn't see that one coming... Probably killed everything in the lake too
- jun2san, on 03/20/2008, -2/+19I'm sorry but it takes a lot of engineering to be able to drill.
- inactive, on 03/20/2008, -2/+18Severe ***** up is an understatement.
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 03/20/2008, -0/+14***** you and your mom
- skabyss, on 03/20/2008, -0/+13Really fascinating story, watch the video though, the pics and description do it no justice.
- borez, on 03/20/2008, -0/+13Reported
- inactive, on 03/20/2008, -0/+13Can't, need oil now for SUV.
- ianstein, on 03/20/2008, -0/+13We get it already, the people of Louisiana and water do not go well together.
- breckinshire, on 03/20/2008, -0/+12That's what she said!
- moletimer, on 03/20/2008, -0/+12It's amazing that no one died. That whirlpool sounded pretty damn scary. Good job those guys jumped off the boat before they got sucked in. Be an awesome story to tell in the pub, though.
- Otto, on 03/20/2008, -0/+11Video on the topic! From the History Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHol4ICeDoo - UberNick, on 03/20/2008, -0/+11what's the link of? don't want to click at work.
- feeback, on 03/20/2008, -3/+13***** SALT!!!
- breckinshire, on 03/20/2008, -0/+10Bwa bwa bwa...
- jasonh1234, on 03/20/2008, -0/+10Wouldn't that be more like pouring a wound into salt?
- eltrev, on 03/20/2008, -1/+11All that from a 14 inch drill bit.
- inactive, on 03/20/2008, -0/+9*Clicks the link at school*
*Thinks "Please dont be goatse, please dont be goatse"
And its a rick roll that resizes the window and makes it skip around on you to stop you from hitting the x button. Simple disable javascript fixed it though. - debuggercll, on 03/20/2008, -2/+10A+ for creativity. F- for applying it towards evil.
- debuggercll, on 03/20/2008, -0/+7It's rick roll youtube video on a page with malicious javascript. It spams you with the lyrics of the song with alerts, one line per pop-up. Only way to stop is to kill your browser's process (task manager in windows, process manager in Ubuntu).
- cjwl, on 03/20/2008, -0/+7The Indonesian mud volcano seems about the same weirdness and far worse.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518 ... - akcoder, on 03/20/2008, -0/+7This was on Modern Marvels about 5 years ago. Very interesting piece. If I recall correctly, something like 12 barges got sucked down the hole, and 10 of them popped back up when the water stopped draining into the salt mine because the mine had filled up.
- vidorian, on 03/20/2008, -1/+8I used to live on lake peigneur. Had friends that worked in the mine at the time this happened. Been many years but the story was the bucket that brought the men up carried 8 and 9 worked there just so happened someone called in sick that day.
Those that were on the lake at the time described it like pulling the stopper out of a bath tub.
There is a big thing going on right now where the lake was bubbling a couple months back and they are trying to find a cause.
An investigation to determine what happened at Lake Peigneur is under way eight weeks after a January incident unsettled several residents in the area.
U.S. Department of Transportation representatives will accompany state Department of Natural Resources’ Office of Pipeline Safety officials on an inspection of the natural gas facility at Jefferson Island, owned and run by Atlanta-based AGL Resources. This inspection is being made at the request of the Iberia Parish Council.
On Jan. 29, a loud release of natural gas from the facility following a power outage alarmed many residents of the Lake Peigneur area. As a result, members of the community action group Save Lake Peigneur petitioned the Parish Council to request involvement at both the state and federal levels in investigating the matter.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s, D-La., office confirmed the senator’s intention to ensure the Jan. 29 incident does not repeat itself.
“We have full faith and confidence in the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources,” said Stephanie Allen, Landrieu’s press secretary. “At the request of the Iberia Parish Council, Sen. Landrieu has asked U.S. DOT officials to take part in the inspection.”
Also at issue is AGL Resources intention to withdraw 5.18 million gallons of drinking water per day, for four years, from two underground caverns at the Jefferson Island Facility.
Stephen Langlinais, engineer and member of the board of Save Lake Peigneur, said the two caverns are approximately the same size as the former twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Specifically, Langlinais cites concerns that drilling will increase the current south to north flow from the Chico Aquifer, resulting in the increased encroachment of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico into area water supplies.
“Several farmers are already experiencing saltwater concentration in their irrigation wells, which are too high for use in irrigating their rice crops,” Langlinais said at a meeting held by Save Lake Peigneur March 11. “They are having to abandon their expensive farm irrigation wells.”
Keith Poston, managing director of corporate communications at AGL Resources, said his company has the utmost confidence in it’s internal safety measures and welcomes any review of the matter.
“We’ve now completed our internal review of the Jan. 29th gas release at JISH, and have determined the exact amount of gas released was 214.3 Mcf (1,000 cubic feet), not 146 Mcf as originally estimated during the event,” he said. “As I mentioned before, regardless of the exact amount, there was never any risk to the public.
“In addition, while the Louisiana State Police was notified within one hour as required, the Vermilion Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness was not notified, which is in fact part of our own plan. We have since met with the director of the Vermilion OHSEP and reviewed our operations and reporting plans going forward.” - cizzop, on 03/20/2008, -0/+6MIRROR:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:NSXAzMvR8a0J: ...
thank you google cache! - Punisher2K, on 03/20/2008, -0/+6Ya think? Fresh water lake becomes a salt water lake and there is no "probably" about it.
- consoneo, on 03/20/2008, -0/+5Yeah and the thousands of man hours it took to dig the salt mine :)
- bradleyland, on 03/20/2008, -0/+5Can I get the number for your HR department? Sounds like easy pickin's for a job in IT over there.
- akcoder, on 03/20/2008, -0/+5You tube is blocked at work...
- breckinshire, on 03/20/2008, -0/+5I repeat... bwa bwa bwa
- inactive, on 03/20/2008, -0/+5Since when is spamming websites in comments creative?
- Mootabolife, on 03/20/2008, -0/+5Watch where you stick your dingy next time.
- gkwillie, on 03/20/2008, -0/+5Chernobyl had much more to do with retarded managerial practices then the engineers. There was a critical design flaw in that, if the temperature sensor got too hot, it would give a null reading, and that is what happened.
But, all of the engineers safety practices were promptly ignored by those damn red managers, who needed the (ironically) safety tests to be completed, despite the complaints from some engineers. These tests involved taking off the redundancies of the system, something no engineer should ever need to design for, and THEN, running the whole damn system below the minimum extreme operational parameters. Surprise! *****. Same ***** thing happened with Challenger and Columbia.
Tacoma Narrows.. that sucked, that was definitely a design problem caused by insufficient knowledge of the wind patterns, and an unfortunately compatible resonance frequency of the bridge. We did learn though, you don't see any suspension bridges nowadays collapsing because of an induced resonant vibration due to wind.
Engineers get no damn credit. - DiggzDE, on 03/20/2008, -1/+5Or you could watch the youtube video included and they tell you the real number.
- IphtashuFitz, on 03/20/2008, -0/+4I remember watching that History Channel show on this disaster. The video footage was absolutely amazing. Seeing it actually happen brings a whole additional level to understanding what happened there.
- DinosWillDie13, on 03/20/2008, -2/+6How dare you. I love salt.
- DemonWasp, on 03/20/2008, -0/+4The proper conjugation is "brought": They would believe him if he brought his laptop in". Neither "brung" nor "brang" is actually a word.
- Acolyte357, on 03/20/2008, -0/+4No-Script ftw
- GuacamoleSan, on 03/20/2008, -0/+3Its a shame how horribly mining and developing is destroying our planet
- uptwolait, on 03/20/2008, -0/+3Just not quite enough this time.
- karan1003, on 03/20/2008, -0/+3too bad no one would believe you
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