In Carlsbad New Mexico, townspeople are afraid that any moment their fair town just might slip into a hole in the earth. Over the course of three decades, a huge cavern has formed under the town, the unfortunate byproduct of having fresh water pumped into a salt layer more than 400-feet below the surface and then eventually extracted as several million barrels of brine to aid in oil drilling. The whole scenario has made local officials so nervous that they have set up a monitoring system that will take readings through pressure sensors every few seconds. In the event of a possible cave-in or any rapid change in the monitored readings, the alarms will trigger, giving residents several hours notice to begin evacuation before disaster strikes. Based on the current size of the cavern, if a cave-in did occur, it could span up to 500 feet.
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if i lived there i would leave as soon as possible. thats a horrible way to die.
really… I ll move myself of this place =O sleep in a hole!
uh oh, my master is trying to claw his way up to Earth. (satan being my master is an inside joke between me and my friend, she asked that if she was Satan if i’d worship her and i said yes, i’m not really a satanist). And then God will come to Earth and join his ex-lover, will they make up? or kill each other?(me and my friends believe that God and Satan were once lovers, then they broke up and God got the house (so my sister states)
“if a cave-in did occur, it could span up to 500 feet.”
That is one big hole in the ground!
to bekky s. were the children all the greek gods?
to mandieville666
hmmm, i don’t know, how we match up how we think things happened is still a mystery fo us yet to solve. i wonder what Jesus is, pfft i dunno. anyway, they could be, if you want them to be, hey you may have just unlocked another part to mine and my friends’ new religion type thing, so far my friend Lexie worships Peter Pan and me and my friend Casey worship Jesus, no not “GEE zus” but “Hey zoos”, i don’t know what Sierra worships if she worships anything at all, i don’t really worship this Jesus but he’s our replacement for the other one, and i believe that our Jesus takes the form of the Tailypo
why don’t they just evacuate everyone now instead of wait til a few hours before?? give the people more time…
I live, like, three and a half hours away from Carlsbad. Seriously, no idea this was there. Ha.
kinda like fantasic 4 silver surfer huh?
@bekky s
hee hee it’s like we’re twittering via comments.
i personally prefer to worship nerds but that might be because i have a huge crush on most of them. i don’t know what it is i just love nerds and sweatervests.