How would you like to be out walking the dog in the morning and have a huge sinkhole like this open up underneathe you? M

Texas sinkhole becomes a lake, home to alligator
Sat May 17, 5:01 AM ET


The giant Texas sinkhole that formed last week is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator.

Area residents believe the reptile was washed into the 600-foot-diameter crater by water from surrounding swamps.

Ground water is seeping into the hole, and its exposed walls are about 30 feet high, the Houston Chronicle reported in its online edition on Friday.

Sightings of an alligator in the sinkhole were confirmed Friday when a Texas Railroad Commission worker snapped photographs.

Danny Diaz, a Texas Parks and Wildlife game warden, said a patch of crude oil floating on the east side of the crater might irritate the alligator's skin, but the reptile is using the water on the other side.

"It's not really safe for anyone to climb down into that hole now to get anything out," said Diaz, pointing to stress cracks in the ground that encircle the hole. "The sinkhole could start growing again, especially if we get a saturating rain."

The commission is still looking into what may have caused the collapse and if other underground voids might cave-in later.

The sinkhole in the small southeast Texas town of Daisetta began as a 20-foot hole in the ground but rapidly grew to 900 feet across at its widest point and 260 feet deep.

It has swallowed up oil tanks and barrels, tires, telephone poles and several vehicles in Daisetta, a town of around 1,000 residents located about 60 miles northeast of Houston.

Texas sinkhole becomes a lake, home to alligator - Yahoo! News

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Makes one wonder as this isn't the first sink hole to make the news. I saw a few in Florida and others in Texas. But this one is far the biggest I have heard about.
Made me google the topic. Some funny others well each decide.
This on the Texas sink hole

Sinkhole Swallows America

This one show drawings of the effects: Sinkhole - A Bridge Too Far? - Roadside America

Alabama has two types: http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/rgws/Un...hapter9-11.pdf

World Wide Images has Ariel views of many of these sinl hole: Earth Science World Image Bank

These were just a few of the 168,000 pages on America's sink holes: 403 Forbidden

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They will be lucky if it isn't some sort of volcanic action. But it really just looks like another SUV fed hole to me. In LA they fill the empty oil caverns with water, but some day an earthquake will set them afloat.

Daisetta, Texas sinkhole

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Another very informative thread. I wonder who will be blamed on this one. Why did it happen I wonder.

Another case of not clicking links.

Click and learn.

You get a story like this and then it dies out despite interest. You would think some Texan would put up a webcam so it can be watched on the net.

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I'm surprised they have not filled it with water, stocked it with fish, set up fishing boat rentals, etc.... and make it a tourist attraction. Maybe they can make hotdogs that look like an alligator.

Has anyone seen photos of this sinkhole?

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Michael your a Capitlist and I am proud of you for that. Maybe we ought to join up and stake a business. I'll get the hot dogs.... lol

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

Can it be that Texan pride has wained? Bet if the Alamo was drawn into this sink hole or a new one, they would have a thousand webcams up and running.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

Maybe we need have alot of these sink holes with alligators along the Southern border.

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