The Lake Peigneur Disaster

I want this hat

was your cousin gilbert a dog?

I was in high school when that happened.at the time, there was no internet, so we didn’t hear about it until the next day. We were all amazed, but no one died, so the whole event has been largely forgotten.

Jefferson Island still has the house out in the lake, with the chimney sticking up.

I know LA has numerous salt domes, but didn't know:

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Salt domes are prime locations for drilling for oil and natural gas, as the salt is nearly impenetrable and the upward movement of the dome bends the rock strata above and around it, creating traps for these resources.

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The first contract I scored as director of marketing for a national contractor was the dismantlement and demolition of the mine above it. It was quite profitable for us the Diamond Crystal Salt bore partial responsibility by giving wrong coordinates to Texaco.

The area breached had been leaking some for years because that horizontal shaft had gotten near the edge of the salt dome.

Diamond Crystal operated the mill above it for 3 years to try to get its lawsuit reward increased. Salt was barged in for this.

The story I got from the superintendent was that two young miners had snuck away to smoke a joint in the abandoned area of the mine where the leak occurred. They noticed it was leaking more than normal then warned everyone else.

Also, the president of our company lived in Tampa and visited the job often because of the food. We hired the superintendent's wife as a clerk/timekeeper and she like to cook for the crew. After one trip John, the president, laughed about how she complained that she would have cooked something better than the crawfish tails she had cleaned that morning from the crawfish boil the day before, so all she had was a crawfish salad for him, wth a pound of tail meat. He said meals there were like heaven

was actually fishing there a couple weeks before. Had an uncle that lived on a canal that led to it. Canal went bone dry when that happened.

Video used to be on Youtube but they pulled it.