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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 | 04:27 PM
Speaking of Florida, about 15 years ago there was a land developer who wanted to have a lake fed by a spring. He hired a company to drill a hole in the center of the lake bottom. The next day the lake was gone, drained into the porous underground. The hole was plugged and the lake was slowly replenished with rain. |
Snowy
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 | 10:53 PM
This sounds beliveable.
I don't know anything about sinkholes in Florida, but there are those coal mines in Pennsylvania which nearly swallowed a kid not long ago. Some town called Centralia, I think. |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 | 05:46 AM
<a href="http://www.dep.state.fl.us/geology/geologictopics/sinkhole.htm">Link that explains sink holes in Florida.</a>
I've never heard of houses disappearing...there is a HUGEmongous sinkhole in my neighborhood, that's about 3-4 acres big...I'd say if you measured from the bottom of the hole up to normal ground level, it's about 60 feet deep. Some guy pastures his horses in it. There was a shed on that spot at the time it happened (more than 20 years ago) and the shed was basically knocked over, and rolled into the bottom of the hole. The debris was cleaned up, and grass has grown. Some saplings that were growing when it was flat, have gotten a little bigger.
It basically looks like a natural retention pond.
And scientists say it happens over eons of time, but I think a lot of it is brought on by overzealous rainy seasons. |
Mort
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 | 06:39 AM
Could have been caused by a cave in in an under ground cave system. Pretty bizarre though because it seemed to happen very quickly, otherwise you'd expect someone to notice it happening. |
Mort
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 | 06:40 AM
Either that or they just did what they did to the Aral Sea, and haven't told anybody about it! |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 | 07:00 AM
Water drains pretty quickly with a large enough hole...
ALTHOUGH...I'm under the stereotypical impression that Russia is frozen at all times of the year, and everyone wears parkas that cover your whole face. And to keep your bu...rear end from freezing, no one takes their pants down when they pee. |
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 | 03:47 PM
OK OK it was me. I sold the lake on Ebay. I'll split it with Russia. So lets see...1.2 mil rupees I guess that's about $4.25? |
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 | 05:04 AM
We don't get sinkholes where I live, I guess the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/3852875.stm">miners</a> dug them all out. |
Maegan
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 | 05:20 AM
Russians use Rubles.
Indians use Rupees.
1 Russian ruble = 0.0346996 U.S. dollars
1 Indian rupee = 0.0229288 U.S. dollars |
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 | 05:21 PM
hmmm....I guess I better call that Indian dude back and tell him he ripped me off and my lake back I mean Russia's lake back. |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 | 09:16 PM
There was nothing "spectacular" behind this... in fact it's been discussed on a few of the science and environment sites I frequent...
http://www.livescience.com/environment/050603_lakes_gone.html
Recent surveys say that about 125 total lakes have vanished from the Artic region... the real question is whether "Global Warming" is responsible OR whether it's just part of a larger weather cycle??? |
Mort
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 | 05:23 AM
Mark N' Jen: Would certainly explain it, but depends on how far north this lake was, and that it disappeared a bit quick? (Sorry only scanned that link cause i'm at work, will take a peek when i get home. Good link though, I very interested). |
Maegan
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 | 05:44 AM
Yeah, I think the surprise from the Russians came from the fact that it was there when everyone left for the night, but the next morning it was gone! I don't doubt that lakes all over are dispappearing for various reasons (including those mentioned in the livescience article), but most fisherpersons I know are out at first light...if they left the evening before that only leaves maybe 6-10 hours when the water would have disappeared.
We do have sinkholes here that just show up - one opened up in the middle of a roadway and an 18-wheeler dropped into it. That was a time span of just a few seconds. Long enough for the driver to move over the area... |
