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6 Teens Drown in Louisiana's Red River
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Aug. 3) -- With one life jacket among them, six teenagers who couldn't swim drowned in Louisiana's Red River when they waded off a sandbar and into water that dropped to 30 feet deep, leaving two families wailing and screaming in horror. A seventh teenager was pulled out alive. The victims, ages 13 to 18, were wading in water 3 feet deep near a sandy beach along the Red River in the Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park in Shreveport on Monday evening when they ventured into an unfamiliar area and entered water that suddenly got 20 to 30 feet deeper, Assistant Fire Chief Fred Sanders in an ...
How to Fix a Giant Sinkhole (in Guatemala or Elsewhere)
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyLoyal Surge Desk readers know that the giant sinkhole that appeared in Guatemala City on Monday is not as rare as it might appear. But that leaves a related question: Just how does one go about fixing a sinkhole, especially when it is the size of a multi-story building? Excavate and Filter According to Leigh University in Pennsylvania, a sinkhole "is best repaired by excavating to rock" and then filling the hole with several different layers of stones of varying sizes to form an "aggregate filter." The site includes a diagram, vaguely reminiscent of seven layer dip, showing how this can be ...
Storm Opens Giant Sinkhole in Guatemala City
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(June 1) -- It looks like a gateway to hell. A 200-foot-deep sinkhole in the north of Guatemala City suddenly opened up in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Agatha, pulling a three-story building and a residential home into the bowels of the earth. More: How Common Are Sinkholes? How to Fix a Giant Sinkhole (in Guatemala or Elsewhere) The colossal chasm is just the latest sign of the chaos caused by this weekend's wild and violent weather, which killed at least 179 people across Central America. Agatha dumped more than three feet of rain on Guatemala and El Salvador over the weekend, causing ...
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