getting bigger and badder. mandatory evacuation. they're handing everyone $875 evacuation assistance checks, orders them to take only what they can quickly grab and carry and sends them down the road out of the area. officials seem to be a little worried the natural gas or the oil stored in the salt dome underneath might make a little bang if the hole keeps getting bigger and reaches the cavern. the one road coming from Baton Rouge and Morgan City thru Perre Part is closed.. that one salt dome is 1 mile x 3 miles but there are many other domes right near covering many many more miles in the area.. lezz see, a couple sq mile sized underground tank of natural gas, add little leak hundreds of feet across, hundreds of feet deep, some coonass fires up his burner to boil crabs at his camp across the bayou and Boom!... we might have a new tourist attraction..cajun version of the Grand Canyon... Petit Canyon..
years ago a rig drilling in a lake near Lafayette broke thru a dome. the lake emptied into the salt dome taking platforms/rig, boats, barges with it.. my father had a barge there that got sucked into the hole, disappeared underground for a while and popped back up later..
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