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re: Did anyone here actually witness the Lake Peigneur disaster?
Posted on 3/5/21 at 12:48 am to navy
Posted on 3/5/21 at 12:48 am to navy
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If you go dine at Cafe Jefferson/Rip Van Winkle Gardens, there’s all sorts of photos and such.
And a darn good lunch.
I love that cafe and the vibe there, should be top 10 in Acadiana but way overlooked!
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Posted on 3/5/21 at 5:35 am to redstick13
Those old survey files from the past can be a bitch to read when they are copies of copies from the 70s. 
we forget the world wasn't always digital
we forget the world wasn't always digitalPosted on 3/5/21 at 6:15 am to MrLSU
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How is the fishing now?
Fantastic
Posted on 3/5/21 at 6:17 am to lukeland3
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Always think about how far under Delcambre those tunnels go and could they cave in one day.
My wife’s family is all down there and we have a camp down there as well. I’ll have to bring this up to the old timers next time we’re sitting around bs’ing.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 6:27 am to MrBobDobalina
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This is one of the craziest occurrences in LA history,
La*
Great info! Never heard of this before.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 7:10 am to lockthevaught
@2:38 or so in that video, Mr. Markle was my next door neighbor for many years. CSB
Posted on 3/5/21 at 7:20 am to Obtuse1
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Anybody see any of it in person?
yep, and what's funny is it spit back up everything that it initially "swallowed" a few days later
Posted on 3/5/21 at 7:21 am to Obtuse1
I wasn't there, but I was a Geology student at LSU at the time. All of our classes got cancelled for a couple of days because every professor in the department hightailed it down there to witness the event first hand.
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Posted on 3/5/21 at 7:22 am to 777Tiger
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yep, and what's funny is it spit back up everything that it initially "swallowed" a few days later
Everything except the drilling rig. It's still down there somewhere.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 7:25 am to Nado Jenkins83
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Those old survey files from the past can be a bitch to read when they are copies of copies from the 70s. we forget the world wasn't always digital
I was over a project in Cameroon that was on a runber plantation. There were some old wells drilled there in the 1930's. Those were some interesting survey files. Not only were they old and hard to read, they were also in French.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 7:25 am to Obtuse1
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Did anyone here actually witness the Lake Peigneur disaster?
No, but the video is sort of terrifying for me. The thought of a giant vortex in a lake that you can't escape trying to drag you into the depths of the earth makes my skin crawl. Like you said, it ate up double digit (I think) barges, land, etc. I know people made it out of the lake on boats, but that doesn't make it less terrifying to me.
I saw another video of tall (like 50+ feet) trees being slowly, then quickly, sucked into a sinkhole in the bayou one time, and it gave me the same feeling.
Found the video: LINK Tall arse trees, disappearing in seconds into the water.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 7:26 am to redstick13
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Everything except the drilling rig. It's still down there somewhere.
I actually took a news crew up in a small airplane to film it/report on it minutes after it began, one of the few times I wish we were in the digital age, the photographer could have given me photos/footage on the spot
Posted on 3/5/21 at 7:27 am to Bigfishchoupique
Yes I stand corrected. K thought when they blew the levees it reversed the flow but I was in fact thinking of the new Madrid earthquakes
Posted on 3/5/21 at 7:38 am to Obtuse1
While i was not there, three years later I picked up the contract to demolish the salt mill above it.
The real story will not be found on the internet. What actually happened is that the mine did not report true coordinates of a horizontal shaft that went to the edge of the salt dome which was leaking all of the time but barely a trickle. All the drill bit had to do was go near it and just so happens that two of the younger mine workers went to that end of the mine (where worn out mining equipment was abandoned) to share a joint during breaktime. They noticed that the trickle had picked was beginning to flow at a steady rate.
Instead of their little treat, they went to warn the rest of the miners who evacuated before the flow became a flood.
The real story will not be found on the internet. What actually happened is that the mine did not report true coordinates of a horizontal shaft that went to the edge of the salt dome which was leaking all of the time but barely a trickle. All the drill bit had to do was go near it and just so happens that two of the younger mine workers went to that end of the mine (where worn out mining equipment was abandoned) to share a joint during breaktime. They noticed that the trickle had picked was beginning to flow at a steady rate.
Instead of their little treat, they went to warn the rest of the miners who evacuated before the flow became a flood.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:04 am to redstick13
Up in the Alleghany national forest there are hundreds maybe thousands of old wells that aren't documented.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:14 am to Obtuse1
I take the party barge to the lake all the time during the summer. Its definitely something to see that fireplace still standing. The guy who filmed the home footage you see on YouTube owns Rip Van Winkle Gardens and Estate. I’ve sat with him and listened to his stories about that day and the days after.
Something cool about that area - it used to be a huge bedding ground for water Buffalo back before easterners settled. He has photos and videos of them finding Buffalo hair when they’ve dredged or dug on his land. You can also find arrowheads very easy along the tributaries in that area
Something cool about that area - it used to be a huge bedding ground for water Buffalo back before easterners settled. He has photos and videos of them finding Buffalo hair when they’ve dredged or dug on his land. You can also find arrowheads very easy along the tributaries in that area
This post was edited on 3/5/21 at 8:17 am
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:29 am to roguetiger15
didn't they find a wooly mammoth tusk there? Or was it something else?
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:30 am to kook
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didn't they find a wooly mammoth tusk there? Or was it something else?
bigfoot moltings
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:41 am to Obtuse1
Used to swim in the lake doing triathlons years back. When setting the swim buoys with my boat the depth finder would drop off scale at the crater. Rest of the lake was shallow.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 10:15 am to Obtuse1
Belle Isle Salt Mine disaster
This is down Wax Lake Outlet south of Morgan City. We used to load crude here. I'm guessing the tank battery was 80-90 feet above sea level. They would gravity feed us at over 6000 bbls/hr. When you walked up the hill to sign paperwork there were signs every hundred feet to stay on the path due to hidden collapses into the old mine.
This is down Wax Lake Outlet south of Morgan City. We used to load crude here. I'm guessing the tank battery was 80-90 feet above sea level. They would gravity feed us at over 6000 bbls/hr. When you walked up the hill to sign paperwork there were signs every hundred feet to stay on the path due to hidden collapses into the old mine.
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