Anybody recall a big sinkhole that was expanding in south Louisiana years ago?

I believe that was due to a well being drilled that penetrated a salt dome.

***Might be a different story***

Link to that story. Not sure if it is what you are referring to.

US News

A Texaco oil rig in the middle of the then-shallow lake punched a hole in a subterranean salt dome being mined by Diamond Crystal Salt. The oil rig began listing, causing those aboard to head for shore. They looked back to see the rig disappear into the lake and saw a whirlpool that sucked the entire lake, including 11 barges, into the vortex. It also pulled in 65 acres of lakeshore, including Bayless’ new home and much of the garden.

YouTube bayou corne sinkhole. It happened in 2008 I believe.

Evidence of mudflood

It's right off highway 70 before Pierre Part. You can launch at Bayou Corne and roll right up to it.

There are window lickers around Maurepas who think this same thing can happen when Air Products drilled CO2 sequestration wells in the lake

If you are talking about the one in Bayou Corne, I remember the incident.

At first residents were complaining about seeing mysterious bubbles in the swamp near the now sink hole. Parish and state officials did tests and found that the gas was flammable and possibly due to naturally occurring swamp gas or a very shallow gas deposit. Then a few weeks had passed then the main sink hole opened up and that is when the finger pointing began and it was determined that the salt dome operator drilled too close to the edge of the salt dome deep under ground allowing water to dissolve the salt in part of the dome causing the ground to collapse disrupting the oil and gas layers which was why the gas was bubbling to the surface.

Over the next few months the sink hole continued to grow in size and gas was detected near a residential area which led to the evacuation of the residents. I can remember a YouTube or Facebook video that the Assumption parish EOC director dropped a measuring tape to see how deep the hole had gotten. I think he had several hundred feet of line and it never touched bottom.

They built a containment dike around the hole because oil mixed with gas was now mixing with the surface water. That was when the Assumption OEP director captured the video of the sink hole swallowing 60 foot trees around the hole as it grew.

Eventually, the most of the residents settled with the dome operator to purchase their homes and move out of the area.

Same thing that happened to the sinkhole in Addis at SPR in the early 90's, it stabilized.

I have friends that live on Avery Island, yep Tabasco Factory home. They decided to flood it.

LINK

I know people here are scared of vaccines but if sinkholes don't scare you, you're not human. The fact that you can just be walking or driving around and the earth fricking eats you is weird and should give you all nightmares.