[kinoxi]

This is cereal.

[jdm]

I'll bring the vodka.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

So who had the idea of DRILLING a well into this area?

[BipolarBob]

The mud started flowing on May 29, a couple of hundred metres from where the gas company PT Lapindo Brantas was drilling an exploratory well nearly two miles deep. It has been gushing up to 50,000 cubic metres a day - or two large bathsfull a second - ever since.

I wonder . . . . . could there be a connection?

[auboy]

Has the price of mud fallen yet?

[A CA Guy]

Anaheim Hills of Anaheim California has kind of an issue like this but due to a different reason.

Homes were built all over the hills and then as lots of cracks, fishers and slides happened, they realized there were a bunch of underground streams trying to constantly carry the hills away and breaking some of them down.

I think it had been going on at least thousands of years and will continue to move and slide indefinitely.

[ozzymandus]

Carl Rove strikes again!

[Disambiguator]

Mud, gas and boiling water

Sounds like a few camping trips I've been on.

:^)

[LNewman]

In other potentially catastrophic news, October's Popular Mechanics lists:

1) A 40-mile long mudslide, Washington State (Mt. Rainier)

2) Cumbre Vieja (most active volcano in Canary Islands) lurches from violent earthquake breaking away 1/3 of mountain into the Atlantic creating a 3000 ft. high dome of water that reaches the US East Coast in just 9 hours

3) Magnitude 6.9 earthquake, Missippi River Valley

4) 195-MPH hurricane slams into Coral Gables just south of Miami (2nd highest housing density in the country)

5) Climate-changing ocean disruption. Freshwater melt from Greenland ice sheet contributes to a layer of bouyant water that is beginning to cap the North Atlantic Ocean.

Thought I'd share the bedtime reading. ;)

[cpdiii]

What they have is a blowout that has come up around the casing of the well. This is not that uncommon. More than one drilling rig has collapsed into the crater that is left. It is not hard to stop but it is expensive. You directional drill down to the producing zone and kill it with heavy drilling fluid then you cement the damn thing up and go back to drilling for gas and oil and make money.

[rlmorel]

This very nearly did make me spit soda on my screen!!!!!!!

[Mike Darancette]

The mud started flowing on May 29, a couple of hundred metres from where the gas company PT Lapindo Brantas was drilling an exploratory well nearly two miles deep.

Oh Frack!