myDeaconmyhand
First man to get a team of horses up Bear Mountain
This is an insane real disaster from 1980
https://youtu.be/ddlrGkeOzsI
So there is a 10ft deep freshwater lake in Louisiana, Lake Piegneur, with an active Diamond Crystal salt mine underneath. A nearby exploratory Texaco oil rig miscalculated and accidentally punctured the ceiling of the salt mine 1200 ft. down with a 14in drill bit. The 150ft oil rig and floating platform began to collapse, so the drillers abandoned it. Lake water rushes into the mine, flooding it and melting the salt dome. There are 55 miners inside the mine at the time who had to quickly evacuate.
On the lake surface a huge vortex formed that sucked down the oil rig platform, and began pulling in barges and a tug boat. Below, the salt dome above the mine collapsed, creating a massive underwater sinkhole. The sudden gravity and water surge broke apart the surrounding lake shore above, creating a land slide around the lake. 11 flat bed lake barges were sucked into the vortex, along with trees and buildings
After 3.5 hours the lake had drained completely into the vortex, and the vacuum caused the 12 mile long Delcambre Canal, running into Vermillion Bay (Gulf of Mexico), to flow backwards (!!!), which temporarily created a 164ft water fall, filling the new lake bed with salt water. The displaced air pressure from the flooded mine created massive geysers, some 400ft high. All of this went on for 2 days! After the water finally settled, the now salt water lake was nearly twice as large, and over 200ft deep. 9 of the 11 barges popped back up to the surface like corks. All in all, 65 acres of lake shore were sucked into the vortex in just 48 hours, along with big rig trucks, oil rigs, barges, tug boats, and multiple fishing piers.
How the hell have they not made that a movie?
https://youtu.be/ddlrGkeOzsI
So there is a 10ft deep freshwater lake in Louisiana, Lake Piegneur, with an active Diamond Crystal salt mine underneath. A nearby exploratory Texaco oil rig miscalculated and accidentally punctured the ceiling of the salt mine 1200 ft. down with a 14in drill bit. The 150ft oil rig and floating platform began to collapse, so the drillers abandoned it. Lake water rushes into the mine, flooding it and melting the salt dome. There are 55 miners inside the mine at the time who had to quickly evacuate.
On the lake surface a huge vortex formed that sucked down the oil rig platform, and began pulling in barges and a tug boat. Below, the salt dome above the mine collapsed, creating a massive underwater sinkhole. The sudden gravity and water surge broke apart the surrounding lake shore above, creating a land slide around the lake. 11 flat bed lake barges were sucked into the vortex, along with trees and buildings
After 3.5 hours the lake had drained completely into the vortex, and the vacuum caused the 12 mile long Delcambre Canal, running into Vermillion Bay (Gulf of Mexico), to flow backwards (!!!), which temporarily created a 164ft water fall, filling the new lake bed with salt water. The displaced air pressure from the flooded mine created massive geysers, some 400ft high. All of this went on for 2 days! After the water finally settled, the now salt water lake was nearly twice as large, and over 200ft deep. 9 of the 11 barges popped back up to the surface like corks. All in all, 65 acres of lake shore were sucked into the vortex in just 48 hours, along with big rig trucks, oil rigs, barges, tug boats, and multiple fishing piers.
How the hell have they not made that a movie?
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