Oil Driller Breaches Salt Mine Under Louisana Lake

This is how you flush an entire lake down a hole. An exploratory drilling exercise miscalculates the location of a salt mine while drilling through a lake bed. The mine is hit, and the oil derek, the mine, the lake, and a few barges are a total loss.

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[bogrowlie]

One job. He had one job.

[sn9696]

And Texco didn't haft to pay a dime..

[Anthony Browning]

Clockwise down under, or anywhere south of the equator. Counter-clockwise north of the equator. It is caused by a phenomenon known as the Correolis (-2sp) Effect.

[derrick seefried]

Thats a myth i live in Canada and i have friends that live in Austrailia.

And they all tell me that its bullshit they swirl clockwise everywhere

[Bernie Pacholczyk]

Just look at it

[Anthony Browning]

yes, in the southern hemisphere drains spin the other way

[kragseven]

It sucks when your the greedy guy who fucks up. I'm waiting for it to happen to the Finger Lakes. Now they want to pump natural gas into the salt mines.

[Robert Mathey]

I wonder if you did that in Australia if the whirlpool would spin the other way?

[obesedog23]

except for the replacements of the million dollar equipment... but other than that

[Taylor Blank]

Except 44.8 Million dollars..

[TheYamaharider125]

@sn9696