Now THIS is TRIPPY!

[Brutuskend]

Lake Peigneur disaster!

 

[FrustratedUser]

I just saw about that on the History Channel.

:shocked::shocked::shocked: is all I can say.
The lake just emptied like a bath tub.

:Q

 

[brxndxn]

Sounds to me like the whole thing was a disaster waiting to happen anyway.. Stupid lake.

 

[monk3y]

That is freaky... Good thing stuff like that doesn't happen regularly...

 

[FrustratedUser]

Pretty awesome accident.

 

[Xionide]

Cool.

-Xionide

 

[cerebusPu]

wow....that is cool. they could make a freaking movie out of that.

Lake Peigneur: sucked into hell.

 

[opticalmace]

cliff notes?
=o

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: cerebusPu
wow....that is cool. they could make a freaking movie out of that.

Lake Peigneur: sucked into hell

LOL

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Holy crap! That's freaking crazy. What I would have paid to see that

 

[cerebusPu]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Holy crap! That's freaking crazy. What I would have paid to see that

haha..texaco paid like $45million to see that. LOL

cliff notes for the lazy:

Thursday, November 21, 1980
Lake Peigneur near New Iberia, Louisiana

Texaco drilling crew punctured a salt dome underground owned by Diamond Crystal. The lake was sucked into the ground causing a giant whirlpool.

<begin quote>
The whirlpool easily sucked up the $5 million Texaco drilling platform, a second drilling rig that was nearby, a tugboat, eleven barges from the canal, a barge loading dock, seventy acres of Jefferson Island and its botanical gardens, parts of greenhouses, a house trailer, trucks, tractors, a parking lot, tons of mud, trees, and who knows what else.
<end quote>

Everyone sued each other and Texaco ended up paying Diamond Crystal $30+million and $12million to Live Oak Gardens.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
I just saw about that on the History Channel.

:shocked::shocked::shocked: is all I can say.
The lake just emptied like a bath tub.

:Q

I just did too!!!

:Q :Q :Q

 

[rival]

"Call before you dig"

 

[DanTMWTMP]

man...and non of the people in the area of the accident didn't take pics?

 

[beer]

Federal mine safety experts from the Mine Safety and Health Administration found it impossible to determine who was to blame for the salt dome collapse (mainly because all of the evidence went down the drain).

Buauhahha, good pun

 

[Pocatello]

Fascinating, simply fascinating

 

[So]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
man...and non of the people in the area of the accident didn't take pics?

No, there are definitely pics, I saw them on the history channel, but this site doesn't have them.

 

[thomsbrain]

doh!