More bubble sites near sinkhole

And the beat goes on

Three new bubbling locations have emerged in waterways near a large sinkhole in Assumption Parish and near other bubbling sites where natural gas has been percolating up from the water, parish officials said Tuesday.

The new bubbling spots were found on Bayou Corne, Grand Bayou and Triche Canal south of La. 70 South, parish officials said in a blog post.

The bubbling has been ongoing in the bayous since late May, about two months before the sinkhole was discovered Aug. 3 in swamps between Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou and the communities that carry the same names.

The total number of bubble sites in area waterways around Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou has reached 22, parish officials said. Additional sites have also been found around water wells on land.

Sinkhole: H-Bomb explosion equivalent in Bayou Corne possible

For those of you who don't know about the Bayou Corne sinkhole, this article is a good catch up.
If you'd like to read on it from the beginning this is the place to go.
http://www.examiner.com/topic/bayou-corne-sinkhole-disaster/articles?page=2
Start at page 4 and work your way forward.
Sorry about the link, I suck at the technically lol

Louisiana State of Emergency: Oil and gas sinkhole disaster area risks and rights violations escalating

A possible breach of a butane-filled well 1500 feet from Bayou Corne's sinkhole, the size of three football fields, is so "very serious," it has Assumption Parish sheriff and local residents ordered to evacuate worried about a catastrophic explosion, one according to scientists in an Examiner investigation, would be in the range of one and a half B83 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs, the most powerful United States weapons in active service.
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Video: 8/11/2012 -- Louisiana Sink Hole Explained -- POSSIBLE HUGE CATASTROPHE -- 100 Hiroshimas.

“The disaster is made all the more worrisome because the hole is believed to be close to a well containing 1.5 million barrels of liquid butane, a highly volatile liquid that turns into a highly flammable vapor upon release,” CNN reported Friday about Louisiana's declared State of Emergency.

Isaac does not change Assumption sinkhole

Lol I had to laugh at the last paragraph, the hole is like 400 ft deep.
Sooner or later I guess, if the sides keep caving in it might fill itself up lol in some other worldly dimension.

A Thursday morning check of a large sinkhole in Assumption Parish shows “no significant changes” in the size of the slurry hole, parish officials said.

“It didn’t grow any,” said John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

Also, Texas Brine Co. LLC of Houston announced Thursday in a statement that $875 weekly housing assistance checks will distributed by Worley Catastrophe Response from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church parish hall, 3304 La. 70, Pierre Part.

Texas Brine officials said the next week’s check will be distributed on Thursday, Sept. 6.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and Louisiana State Police physically checked the hole about 9 a.m. at ground level, Boudreaux said.

The sinkhole has widened, as expected, since its emergence earlier this month as the edges of the hole, also known as a slurry area or slurry hole, have fallen in from time to time and begun filling in the hole.

How many oil spills can the Gulf region handle?

This spill if that's what you want to call it happened at the end of July
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVGmDndD-g&feature=related

And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse......it did.

This one happened this week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1g64Q1kcPI&feature=player_embedded