Update - 8/18/12 - I noticed they did not release "flyover" videos yesterday. Just as I stated before, when the situation becomes more serious, they will begin to not release information or views of it to the public anymore. The normal mode of operation for the government.
***The size they are saying is not entirely correct in my opinion. Because during the previous flyovers, you can see that all those trees on the right are in water. The water in fact goes all the way to the pad at the top right. When you see the Google Earth pictures I captured in the other post I did, you can tell that area is suppose to be dry, those trees do not sit in water. The trees may not have sunk yet, but they are still part of the sinkhole due to the water covering the area, again that is my opinion.
La. DNR has required the owner of the butane cavern to give a "Worst case scenario" report, if the sinkhole expands to it.
From article:
"The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has asked the operator of a salt cavern near a sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish to describe what would happen if all butane that could be held in the underground storage facility were released to the surface, state officials said Tuesday," David Mitchell of The Advocate reported Thursday.
“Out of an abundance of caution,” Louisiana state officials on Tuesday required Crosstex to provide an updated risk management plan.
DEQ officials disclosed Tuesday “a lot of dynamic things” are happening around the butane cavern, including the expected well drilling, and community concerns have arisen.
According to the latest report, 940,000 barrels of butane are in Crosstex’s storage cavern.
In the Aug. 3 emergency order, DNR put all local oil and gas facility operators on notice that they might be required to empty their storage caverns, shut in their wells or take other action to ensure safety of the nearby bayou communities.
ABC did a story on their site about worker's boat that was swallowed up into the sinkhole. The boat was tied to a tree with the workers in it, when the tree fell and sunk into the sinkhole. The workers needed to be rescued.
They are the only MSM article I can find about it. The MSM is still silent on this problem, though many people are being affected and had to evacuate! Astounding! Amazing to me that they think some celebrity news or the fake politicians are more important than people having to leave their homes over a serious situation.
The article says it grew 50 feet while the workers were in the boat. That is a huge amount of growth in small amount of time.
From article:
"It has expanded 50 feet and during that expansion there were workers that were working on the cleanup of the diesel," Kim Torres, spokeswoman for the Office of Emergency Preparedness, told ABCNews.com today.
The two workers were in a boat tied to a tree when the area where the tree grew fell into the sinkhole.
The workers were rescued by airboat. They were uninjured but their boat disappeared into the sinkhole. The cleanup process has been halted.
Here is the other post I did about Assumption Parish, Bayou Corne sinkhole.
A local La. article says it grew 50 feet in a short time too.
Flyover videos were released yesterday - notice how it is now at those grass lines and how those lines are becoming water. I don't understand why they only give us seconds of video in their flyovers.
With this one, for some reason they give us a very narrow view of the sinkhole from the inside. The tree falling was being cut down, from what they say.
The main site for information of what is happening in Assumption Parish is here.
I will be watching for more updates as they happen. They should hopefully release new flyover videos today. But with the fast expansion of the sinkhole they may not release information, which is the normal govt. operating procedure. They stop giving information as the situation gets mores serious.
The Texas Brine company has started giving money to those who have had to evacuate. That is on the link above, besides a local resident right outside the evacuation area, left a comment on my other post stating that fact.
Update 8/18/12 - Here is the Butane Cavern owner (Crosstex) worst case scenario document. They say there is absolutely no concern and nothing would happen if Butane was released. But it is extremely doubtful that there would even be a problem, because the cavern starts at 1/2 mile underground.
The butane storage well is 2,000 feet from this sinkhole(40% of a mile).
ReplyDeleteCan anyone show me where a sinkhole grew to that size anywhere in the US or on earth?
This, like many other issues will amount to nothing at all.
Yes it is. And it will hopefully amount to nothing. If there is no concern over it, why has the DNR wanted a complete "worst case scenario" from the company that maintains it?"
DeletePeople on the internet are not making things up, over the concern of it all. It is through actions and information that is showing the La. govt. concern of it.
I thought that LA was one of the few states which had no caves or other karst landforms!
ReplyDeleteGod said valleys will become mountains and Mountains will become valleys, and no one will believe the signs.
ReplyDeletefound this article this morning. very difficult to find updated info.
ReplyDeletegald to find someone trying to stay on top of this. wish more people from the area would report what they see and hear.
http://enenews.com/butane-near-sinkhole-to-be-moved-in-an-abundance-of-caution-ignition-of-fuel-inside-pipe-discussed