Another reason not to live in Texas

[ucbruin]

"STFU..."

Someone seems to be living "rent free"....
In one of Fernando's units....

Seems to me that I'm no longer the only one....
GH seeks to silence....

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Measles outbreak is because not enough people being vaccinated (need at least 95% of Texans vaccinated.

 

[Tom D]

Do yous have a zombie problem in texas, or does the heat kill the wobblers.
My big city say we have 90,000 here, also highest drug zip code in the country.

 

[Fernando]

Do yous have a zombie problem in texas, or does the heat kill the wobblers.
My big city say we have 90,000 here, also highest drug zip code in the country.

90,000 is a lot. That would be like 10% of SF population.
SF has been cleaning up its drug problem it seems from past announcement on tougher laws on drug dealers and getting druggies off the street.
Let's hope it works because the drug stigma has deterred visitors from coming to SF.

 

[Charles West]

Do yous have a zombie problem in texas, or does the heat kill the wobblers.
My big city say we have 90,000 here, also highest drug zip code in the country.

I've seen pictures of your Zombies. The mayor and like-minded people in charge who tolerate that activity should be hanged in the street for putting up with nonsense like that. It's a complete disgrace to allow people to melt down in public like that, taking businesses and other people's lives down the toilet with them. Unacceptable at all levels.

 

[Fernando]

San Jose has a new program (other cities have it too) to reunite homeless back to their family in which they came from at the city's expense.
Hope they decide to go to Texas since Texas says they are better place to live.

 

[George Hatch]

"STFU..."

Someone seems to be living "rent free"....
In one of Fernando's units....

Seems to me that I'm no longer the only one....
GH seeks to silence....

Context counts. I'm not trying to silence him. Or you. I'm just telling him that coastal elite persona he pimps sux and it antagonizes literally everyone else in America.

I especially don't need you to be silent. Handling you is easy. I just have to be mindful of your fragility and refrain from pushing too hard on you.

 

[Tom D]

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas.
Radford Grocery #17 was originally drilled as an oil well in the 1950s and later converted to a saltwater disposal well, according to state records. The well was plugged in 1977.
By mid-March, the sinkhole was roughly 200 feet in diameter and 40 feet deep, big enough to fit a four-story building. The smell of crude permeated the air. The family has stopped using a water well they fear could be contaminated.
At some point the Radford Grocery well’s plug failed, creating a connection between the water table and the oil reservoir underground.
“It can be fixed,” said Hawk Dunlap, a well integrity expert, as he looked over the sinkhole on Thursday. “But it’s not going to be cheap.”
The sinkhole is the latest in a string of catastrophic incidents with old oil wells in the Permian Basin of West Texas, some plugged and others not. From sinkholes to blowouts to persistent leaks, more than a century of oil drilling in the region has left a daunting array of environmental hazards. These emergencies are in addition to a long backlog of wells to plug around the state.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

The sinkhole is the latest in a string of catastrophic incidents with old oil wells in the Permian Basin of West Texas, some plugged and others not. From sinkholes to blowouts to persistent leaks, more than a century of oil drilling in the region has left a daunting array of environmental hazards.

Technology today differs from that of 50 years ago... and on. Oklahoma in the 1920s recommended driving a wooden post down a well bore assuming any water would cause the wood to swell and seal the hole. To a point that was true but steel rusts, wood can eventually rot and then any fluid below can be released. Today's wells are plugged over the zone of interest with cement and then often cemented to the surface or near. Such things shouldn't happen. It's poorly plugged and almost all of these 'bad' wells have inadequate bonding because the costs at the time were a fraction of today's cost. So, a $10,000 bond that would cover a deep well in 1980 needs to be $100,000 bond today.

Yes, the well needs to be stopped and doing so is expensive since they cannot sit over the hole as it is. They will have to drill at an angle into the zone and pump heavy mud into it, probably with cotton seed hulls, or some kind of polymer. Then fill in the hole set a rig over the hole and drill out, log and cement the whole well bore.

 

[alebrewer]

I would hate to bet on that. Seattle and Austin might question that as well.

Haha. Nobody's questioning anything that the Fern puts out there. White noise.