A Lake Disappeared Overnight

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marvdmartian

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Hey, maybe the lake drained to help make up for all that tsunami water that flowed onto land back in december??? :shocked: :roll: :laugh:

Back in the early part of the 20th century, there was an earthquake around the yellowstone national park area, that caused a lake to move 1/4 of a mile from it's original point, just due to the shift of the land plate. Dang, talk about surf's up!! ;)
 

CPA

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Originally posted by: allisolm
We have a 4000 acre lake in Tallahassee that disappears into a sinkhole with some regularity. In the 20 th century it went in 1900, 1907, 1909, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1957, 1982 and 1999. It hasn't refilled from that last one yet.

Must be those damn Russians.
 

nakedfrog

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Mwahahaha... our evil plot to drain the lake to destabilize the Russian economy has wor--oh, wait a minute.
 

DrPizza

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Originally posted by: marvdmartian
Hey, maybe the lake drained to help make up for all that tsunami water that flowed onto land back in december??? :shocked: :roll: :laugh:

Back in the early part of the 20th century, there was an earthquake around the yellowstone national park area, that caused a lake to move 1/4 of a mile from it's original point, just due to the shift of the land plate. Dang, talk about surf's up!! ;)

I think you're referring to the Mississippi River.
 

PanzerIV

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America's plan on world domination by draining lakes has now passed its first test in Russia. Prepare for the New World Order!!
 

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alien42
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ok, i admit it, i dug the hole

:thumbsup:
 

DainBramaged

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Originally posted by: OulOat
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.

NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.

"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.

Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.

"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.
Reuters

haha