The gaping vortex in this Texas lake is big enough to suck in a boat

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An 8-foot-wide vortex that opened up in a Texas lake earlier this month made it possible to act out in real life that scene from so many classic cartoons where entire boats (or human skeletons) are sucked down a drain. Not that I'd endorse that idea, as it surely wouldn't end well.

The dramatic vortex in the video below was created when water entered the Denison Dam spillway on Lake Texoma. Flooding on the Red River, which flows into the lake along the border of Texas and Oklahoma, has caused the lake to crest and flow over the spillway twice in a single year for the first time ever in its history -- once prior to the recording of the video, and again last week.

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