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Nervous watch continues at massive Liberty County sinkhole

DAISETTA, Texas -- Folks in the Liberty County town of Daisetta are keeping nervous eyes on a monster sinkhole the size of a few football fields.


It continues to grow and is causing serious concern from residents who live and work nearby.


By 2 p.m. Thursday, the giant bowl was about 900 feet in diameter and about 250 feet deep.


“It has grown in size,” said Hugh Bishop with the Liberty County Sheriff's Office. "We're just mainly watching as the hole grows in size, which direction it will be headed. If it does start to come towards the road or towards houses, then we will evacuate those people."


Bishop said none of the 100 homes in the immediate vicinity had been evacuated and local schools and business remain open.


Debra Fragia is building her dream house across the road from the crater. The house was only a nerve-wracking 75 yards away Thursday at noon.


"My heart fell in my stomach cause it was already over this side of the road," said Fragia. "When I got there, it was pretty, it was pretty terrible for me right at that time. You kinda look at your dream, it's just expected to fall off in a big hole."


Authorities had been worried about a nearby road but -- so far -- the hole has not grown in that direction.


Right now, geologists and Texas Railroad Commission experts are examining the area. How much more it will spread is anyone's guess at this point, but geologists believe the rate of growth had slowed down a little by noon Thursday.

They believe the collapse was caused by the removal of oil from the salt dome over time.


Officials are being cautious because of the continuing danger of the ground caving in.

The sinkhole began with some long cracks in the ground Wednesday morning and grew to a huge hole by the afternoon.


It's now several stories deep and is partially filled with a black liquid made up of mud water, and oil sludge. They're hoping to send a rowboat down into the hole soon to determine how deep the liquid is.


As the ground surrounding the sinkhole continued to collapse Wednesday, it gobbled up an 18-wheeler, a tractor, a drilling platform and other oil field equipment.


Crews worked feverishly to pump hundreds of barrels of oil out of storage tanks before they fell in.

"Right now we're not concerned about any kind of explosion or any kind of hazard," said Tom Branch with Liberty County Emergency Management. "We are monitoring some other things around the area to make sure everyone's OK."


FM 770, Daisetta's main drag, is shut down until further notice because the sinkhole is too close for comfort. School buses and other vehicles are being diverted around the area.


Daisetta -- population 1,000 -- was once a booming oil town. It's about an hour northeast of Houston.

I remember replying to a thread last year, when I was working in the oil field, about the dangers that no one thinks about, such as...
When we pump oil from the ground, it leaves massive honey-combed tunnels underground. Sooner or later, these will collapse as there is nothing in them to apply equal pressure of resistance to weight upon the surface.

Now, we see it is begining to take its toll. Not good!

You suppose those rich oil companies will pay the dammages due for the losses this will bring?

All opinions welcome.

cock in hand

Never....they only see profits and power. We are just numbers to them...sorry HL if I had a little fun in my last post.

Let's close all oil wells in and around the country. Let's import it all

Well done, hun!!

LMFAO

Leave it to YOU... and only YOU would have had this kind of FUN with this. You have a one trac mind!!!! I have never seen anything like you SF!!

As I started to read the red highlights, I suddenly saw where you were going with it and all I could do was shake my head and laugh till I was in tears!

You such a hoe dog SF!

It's probably too late Indy, the dammage has been done.

Maybe all of the oilfield Nations of the world will collapse and we will all fall into the big hole??

It sounds like there's only one man that can fix this mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
























Owl Gore

He's too busy trying to keep his internet up to snuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it's all caused by GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!

That only makes sense.....

But..........Owl Gore could fix the sink hole.





























He could just go lay down in it......and it would be level again.

"You Better Watch Out For the Eggplant That Ate Chicago"



This is where the real danger lies!! Ask Norman Greenbaum!

I've heard of a few holes that could gobble up anything...

xmas trees!

Living in Florida....these sinkhole stories are an everyday occurrance. They don't even grab my interest anymore

Spirit In The Sky

yeah....but no one remembers "the eggplant"

Was that the sequel or the pre-quel to the movie and song The Cockroach That Ate Chigago?? %D