100-foot deep Andes lake disappears (Chile)

CNN ^ | 7/21/07

[mvonfr]

Romero? Romero? George Romero.

[lesser_satan]

Perhaps a marauding band of chupacabras mutilated and ate the cows, and then drank the lake to wash them down?

[Cyman]

Naw I heard that they just found it trying to sneak over the border in Tijuana

[Kimmers]

Just damn....I searched for the title, I searched key words....I wheely wheely tried......oh well

[Michael.SF.]

Possible real answer: Fissure opened up and the lake went underground. How did fissure open up? Seismic activity or ice melted allowing the water to escape.

[Bogey78O]

That ain’t nothing. In Louisiana we made an entire lake disappear in less than a day along with reversing the flow of a major waterway and creating temporarily the largest waterfall in Louisiana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

[CommerceComet]

The Andes are in the ring of fire and are on fault lines. Earth cracks andswallow up lakes and change the course of rivers.

Didn't something similar to this happen right before or during the great series of earthquakes near New Madred, Missouri in the early 1880s? Let's hope that another great earthquake isn't in store for Chile like the one that hit in the 1960s. Was that the strongest earthquake ever recorded?

[Mo1]

Something like this happened a few year back in Russia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4566355.stm
Vanishing lake baffles Russians

There have long been rumours about the lake
Residents of a village in central Russia are trying to solve the mystery of a lake that disappeared overnight.

[silentreignofheroes]

Experts can’t figure it out,,,who woulda’ figured..

[RightWhale]

"No one knows what happened."

How can somebody say that? Did he ask everybody?

[Joe Boucher]

I’ve seen it happen here in Florida.

[Joe Boucher]

Bingo on both counts

[freekitty]

“Who pulled the plug?”

LOL, you will find it in Venezuela.

[Cinnamon]

Locals mentioned this guy was in teh vicinity right before the lake vaporized.. did I say vaporized?

[Wuli]

Whoever it was that drew the giant figures on the ground in the deserts east of the Andes - thousands of years ago - came back to get a drink./sarc

[Blueflag]

The movie Tremors comes to mind.

What does Kevin Bacon know, and when did he know it?

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[Jim Noble]

[true_blue_texican]

Yeah, with the rain we’ve been having, five acres is just the runnoff.

[Concho]

5 acres, 100 feet deep would be approximately 162 million gallons at any rate..........