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Date: August 21, 2012 at 07:22:43
From: Bill Silver Eagle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Update: Louisiana Sink-hole & Texas Brine Steps-Up |
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Another 20-foot section of land lost in sink hole
BAYOU BLUE, LA (WAFB) - The sinkhole is growing. According to the Assumption Parish President, the sink hole has lost another 20-foot section. On Thursday, 50-feet fell in. No one was injured when the land fell in either time.
Crews are expected to being drilling the observation well tonight between 4 p.m. and midnight, weather permitting.
People living near the massive sink hole who had to be evacuated will be getting some money for their trouble. Beginning August 17, each home will be receiving $875 per week.
Residents must submit a driver's license or other photo ID to confirm they live near the sink hole.
Checks are being issued at the Sheriff's substation in Pierre Part.
Residents affected by the August 4 evacuation order resulting from the discovery of a sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish will begin receiving financial assistance beginning Friday, August 17.
Texas Brine Company, LLC, of Houston, has chosen Worley Catastrophe Response to coordinate and manage a housing assistance fund for residents living around the Bayou Corne community in the area under a mandatory evacuation order issued by Assumption Parish officials. Worley will operate out of the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office substation in Pierre Part. A Worley employee will be on site once a week, or as needed, beginning Friday.
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Date: August 22, 2012 at 10:07:49
From: Althea, [DNS_Address]
Subject: QUESTION...will wood float if the "liqiud" in the hole is largely |
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BUTANE?
The trees are sinking which is why the two men died when the tree they had their boat tied to fell into the sinkhole.
Instead of the tree floating, it sank and took the boat with the men inside of it DOWN.
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Date: August 22, 2012 at 19:44:53
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: QUESTION...will wood float if the "liqiud" in the hole... |
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i missed that...when did that happen?....why didn't the men jump out??....
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Date: August 24, 2012 at 10:57:02
From: althea, [DNS_Address]
Subject: A few days ago here is the story |
URL: http://abcnews.go.com/US/louisiana-sinkhole-engulfs-boat-workers-rescued/story?id=17021557 |
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the men got out but the tree (which should have floated since its made out of wood after all lol )
sank and drug their boat with it.
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Date: August 24, 2012 at 11:35:41
From: althea, [DNS_Address]
Subject: here is my theory......................what would cause trees sink? |
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the law of flotation states that for something to float, it must weigh less than the amount of water it dispaces ie: less dense than the water.
SO....then the water MUST by defintion be MORE dense for the trees to sink as the only trees that will not float are ironwood and madrona as they are entirely too dense.
So what you need to ask yourself is why is the water so heavy?
Also check out heavy hydrogen which perhaps might be produced by electrolysis assuming that it burns only the oxygen and not the hydrogen leaving mmore H than O,
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Date: August 24, 2012 at 18:09:50
From: DebbyS/AbqNM`, [DNS_Address]
Subject: another theory |
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And maybe the roots of the tree were so strongly anchored that when the ground sank, the tree simply went with it?
The size of the tree may have been mentioned but I missed it. A large tree could have a massive root system. I live in the high desert and we have very few lakes (even human made ones), so I'm not very familiar with the combination of trees and lakes... though I recall that decades ago (1950s?) in the Ozarks of northern Arkansas or southern Missouri, where there are many lakes (i.e., Lake of the Ozarks), a big new bridge was built to span a gap. Water was released from a dam upstream and... it flood out the big new bridge to a depth of some 150 feet or so, maybe more (I heard this story in the 60s or 70s). Embarrassed, the government responsible for building the bridge but not realizing what would happen had to institute a free ferry service. Anyhow, all those trees drowned as the water rose; the trees did not float unless, of course, say, some had been cut, stacked and ready for some use, then abandoned.
Anyhow, stupid people, poor trees
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Date: August 24, 2012 at 20:57:00
From: althea, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Perhaps but not likely since like all water loving trees, alder, cedar |
URL: http://www.ehow.com/about_6331171_root-system-cypress-tree.html |
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and others, the root system is very shallow.
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