Daisetta Texas Sinkhole – Video footage and pictures of the giant sinkhole in Daisetta, Texas, about 60 miles northeast of Houston.
The Daisetta Texas sinkhole is at least 100 feet deep and over a quarter mile across. The zigzag shaped hole is beleived to be as long as two football fields.
About the Texas sinkhole, Chief Les Hulsey of the Daisetta Police Department said, “The hole is getting bigger. It’s working its way toward the highway. We have cracks all the way up to Highway 770.”
The sinkhole opened Wednesday morning in an area near an oil storage facility where salt domes are located. The caverns are used for storing salt brine pumped from oil fields.
A storage tank fell into the Texas sinkhole, as well as a truck, construction equipment and power lines. Power lines in the area are in danger of falling into the giant sinkhole.
We just have potholes in the road around here. I guess it’s like they say, everything is bigger in Texas!
And that’s the latest chatter about the Daisetta Texas sinkhole.
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May 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Gosh Can’t believe this…
My Mom is from Daisetta and we used to go there when we we kids. We still have some family that is from there. This is a crazy thing. My Brother and Mom called me tonight to ask if I seen it on the news yet, well no I haven’t. Well to let you all know I am now watching this, it is very unbelievable…… You all are in our prayers, and hopefully this will not get any bigger. Love you guys……. Go Bobcats……………
May 8th, 2008 at 12:02 am
My family is from Daisetta (and Hull) as well. My Aunt says it is on the other side of town from her, but if she’s anything at all she is getting in the car and leaving. I can just hear this in her thick Texas accent and it is funny to me.
The whole place is a big salt dome with all the oil underneath it pumped out. Settling should be expected.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
My wife’s uncle worked in Daisetta when it was a booming oil town. He told his sister over 25 years ago not to build a house in Daisetta, because “It’s a time bomb waiting to go off.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Can this affect Dayton? My realative is incarrcerated in
Dayton and I was just worried if it is close to there.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Settling, do you know anything about geology. A salt doem isn’t a big open void it’s permiable rock that the oil is in.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Everyone was saying this would happen 32 years ago when my family lived in Hull-Daisetta.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Yes, settling Nick. When the oil is removed and a void is created, it can cave in like this.
This vacuum truck service (trucks that pick up spills at refineries) is pumping things (they probably won’t say what) into the ground that can contaminate the groundwater, so it’s not just a nuisance pothole.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I’m a senior at Hull-Daisetta high school. It won’t affect anyone in Dayton, Hardin, or Liberty. (atleast it shouldn’t.) Pretty scary knowing it’s right down the road from our school. God bless anyone that is afraid, and God bless our HD community. We may be needing it.
June 1st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
i am a oilfield truck driver in this area i have hauled mant loads of oilfield brine to the deloach
facility unless you have seen this hole yourself you would not believe this i stood in awe thinking to myself i may have contributed to this now growing problem.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
i lived where this sinkhole was and it has damaged a lot
it was near the hull-daisetta fire dept
the sinkhole was very very very big!!!