Seems
a rather large sinkhole has opened up near Disney World swallowing a largish building or two and effectively destroying an entire resort complex.
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| (It is an ex-resort) |
No injuries reported, so that's good and the resort has given spending money to guests who lost their clothes and wallets and such in the collapse.
Meanwhile, closer to home, a Texas company is seeking permits to drill fracking wells in a housing development next to protected panther habitat near the Everglades, a process that will use tens of thousands of gallons of water. Never mind the toxic chemicals used to break up the rock, that water has to come from somewhere. The state
Department of Environmental Protection notes that "heavy ground water pumping, [and] diversion of natural water flow routes . . . may accelerate sinkhole formation." What could possibly go wrong?
Meanwhile, a twelve-year-old boy over toward Lake Okeechobee has contracted brain-eating amoebae, probably from swimming in a canal full of warm fresh (but contaminated) water. The brain-eating amoeba is rare, but of the couple hundred known cases there has only ever been one survivor.
Meanwhile, over on the east coast, a large bloom of slimy, fluorescent green algae is closing the St. Lucie and Indian rivers. Officials are warning locals
not to even touch the water.
Just another day in Paradise.
Kind of puts the
pythons and bears and
lion fish and
tegus and
48 species of mosquitoes in perspective doesn't it?
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