You’re doing it wrong
Posted by mesablue on March 20, 2008
The World’s Weirdest Engineering Disaster
On a fateful day in 1980 a group of oil drillers were working in a shallow lake in Louisiana probing for oil. A miscalculation sent their drill straight into a large salt mine shaft below the lake’s surface. The hole started at just over a foot in diameter but rapidly widened as the water from the lake above washed away the salt around it. What started out quite simply ended in disaster that no one could have predicted.
Yikes. I had never heard about this before.
Those of us from Chicago have first hand experience with what can go wrong when you start poking holes under large bodies of water.
Absolute Moral Authority 
Steamboat McGoo said
That was fascinating, mesa!
Cuffy Meigs said
“intense sucking power”
pajama momma said
How hard is it to find the fucking hole? A miscaculation my ass, get it out of there.
pajama momma said
miscalculation………..hate it when I spell stuff wrong.
Steamboat McGoo said
I just had to post this thing, too, mesa! But I credited the snot out of you – so I hope you’re ok with it.
I thought it was funny that most of the barges “came back up”. That would have been creepy to see.
Rosetta said
That’s incredible! How did you come across that? Did you catch it on the History Channel.
Amazing stuff.
Rosetta said
“intense sucking power”
What does a giant whirlpool vortex and pajama momma have in common?
pajama momma said
What does a giant whirlpool vortex and pajama momma have in common?
Rosetta?
Rosetta said
Hahahaha!
Wait. What?
pajama momma said
Yeah, I don’t know either.
pajama momma said
Happy Easter Mesa!