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Giant Sinkhole Continues To Grow, Scientists To Study It
kltv ^
| 6/29/05
| Julie Tam
Posted on 08/17/2005 10:45:04 AM PDT by jb6
The mysterious giant sinkhole in Smith County is getting bigger.
It's now up to 80 feet in diameter. And water has started to bubble up from the bottom.
It has become quite an attraction for the public. And TX-DOT says that's dangerous. Crews have put up more barriers to keep people from getting too close and possibly hurting themselves.
The sinkhole formed Sunday morning, and it was close to 100 feet deep. Since then, more pavement and dirt have fallen in.
TX-DOT plans to send out scientists in the next couple of days to figure out the cause.
TOPICS: US: Texas
KEYWORDS: crack; nature; sinkhole; texas; tx; wearedoomed
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To: LittleJoe
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posted on
08/17/2005 10:58:28 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, we're hunting wahabbits...)
To: jb6
If it keeps going, we can close Yukka Mountain..... ;-)
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posted on
08/17/2005 10:58:36 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.)
To: jb6
23
posted on
08/17/2005 11:00:02 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: socal_parrot
24
posted on
08/17/2005 11:01:13 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
To: jb6
Dammit, I missed - was trying to open it under Cindy Sheehan.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:01:39 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: jb6
I thought this story was about Madonna!!
To: socal_parrot
Excellent, I want on this ping list. Giant sinkholes are about the best relief from the "real news" that I can imagine.
To: Willie Green; xsmommy; SoothingDave
It's a 'Burgh Thing.
To: jb6
I thought that headline was another article about Madonna being banged up again.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:04:46 AM PDT
by
maplenut
To: ken5050
OR Cracker Barrel could send a tanker of their Chipped Beef recipe. Nevermind, it'd have to then be designated a toxic waste cleanup zone.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:05:57 AM PDT
by
WideGlide
(That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
To: ken5050
I just have to ask..do you wake up every morning and first thing type "giant sinkhole" into Google?
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:08:49 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
To: jb6
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Helen Thomas is a Hearst newspaper columnist who served for 87 years as a correspondent for United Press International and White House bureau chief. She wrote radio news for UPI, and has traveled to China with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, as well as Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush and Clinton. Oh, never mind.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:10:39 AM PDT
by
OESY
To: jb6
Giant Sinkhole Continues To Grow, Scientists To Study It These guys must have been born yesterday.
The Blue Hole
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:11:32 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
To: martin_fierro
It's a 'Burgh Thing. You got that right. They call that lil pot hole a "dangerous thing"?
That ain't no stinking big sink hole.
Come to the Burgh, now we got sum sink holes!
Eat that puny lil pot hole up!
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:14:10 AM PDT
by
Al Gator
(Remember to pillage BEFORE you burn!)
To: jb6
Is this one of the areas in Texas that continues to be in a drought?
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:14:24 AM PDT
by
shield
(The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
To: Dog Gone; martin_fierro
CLAUDE, TX -- A massive crack in the earth opened up last week in Claude, Texas and its creating a stir among geologists.I don't know where Claude, Tx is...
But if it's anywhere near the Mexican border, it COULD be very similar to the mine subsidence problems encountered by PennDOT engineers.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:16:59 AM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!!!)
To: jb6
...and it drained what use to be a pond. I'll bet Mother Nature didn't get permission to drain that pond from the Corp. of Engineers.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:24:59 AM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
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To: Willie Green
It's way up there near Amarillo.
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:35:07 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
It's way up there near Amarillo.Whoa! I never realized that the illegals could tunnel THAT far!
They sure are sneaky little devils, aren't they?
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posted on
08/17/2005 11:39:22 AM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!!!)
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