There’s a giant
hole that’s draining a lake on the border of Oklahoma and Texas like it’s a
bathtub
Like something straight out of
"The Twilight Zone", a swirling vortex has opened up in a giant lake
on the border of Oklahoma and Texas.
(U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers/YouTube)
The gaping hole — which appeared recently in Lake Texoma — alarmed everyone from Twitter users to the Tulsa District US Army Corps of Engineers, who posted a YouTube video of the vortex. Below the video, they describe the hole as being "8 feet in diameter and capable of sucking in a full-sized boat."
But despite how crazy it looks, there's a perfectly normal explanation for
the spooky hole:The gaping hole — which appeared recently in Lake Texoma — alarmed everyone from Twitter users to the Tulsa District US Army Corps of Engineers, who posted a YouTube video of the vortex. Below the video, they describe the hole as being "8 feet in diameter and capable of sucking in a full-sized boat."
The water is being drained.
"Just like in your house when you
fill a bathtub full of water and [open] the drain, it will develop a vortex or
whirlpool," BJ Parkey, assistant lake manager at Lake Texoma, told
Business Insider.
One of the largest reservoirs in the
US, Lake Texoma lies on the border of Oklahoma and Texas and is formed by the
buildup of water at Denison Dam on the Red River. When the water levels get too
high, as they have in recent weeks, the Army Corps opens sluices, called
floodgates, at the bottom of the lake to drain the water into the river. The
flowing water creates cyclonic action, much like a tornado, which is widest at the top
and tapers down at its tip, said Parkey.
Could it really swallow a boat?
If the whirlpool were large enough, it
would be easy for a boat to be caught up in it, Parkey said. To avert a watery
disaster, the Army Corps has marked the area with buoys and signs to keep
people away. He said the entire area is off-limits for boats.
The size of the vortex depends on a
number of factors, including the lake's elevation and how wide the floodgates
are opened. Although the video description says the hole was 8 feet wide, right
now it's probably more like 2.5 to 3 feet, said Parkey.
The lake's vortex is rotating
counterclockwise, which may lead some people to think is due to the
"Coriolis effect" caused by the Earth's rotation. (This is the same
logic some people have used to explain why toilets flush counterclockwise in the
Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.) As the Earth
spins, it causes winds in the Northern Hemisphere to bend to the right and
winds in the Southern Hemisphere bend to the left. But the effect happens on a
much larger scale than toilets, or even tornadoes. It usually comes into play
with storms that are about three times larger than the ones that typically
generate tornadoes.
The vortex is especially dramatic right
now because of the deluge of rain the region has received over the past few
weeks, which has caused massive flooding. Lake Texoma's waters
reached a record-high elevation a few weeks ago of nearly 646 feet above sea
level.
LESSON ON THIS HAPPENED!
There are several giant holes in
individual’s life. Check your life thoroughly; discover it now! Then take a drastically
steps to cover it, else it may sunk you suddenly like this unknown hole amidst
the sea shore.
The earlier the better for you to
quit all habits that has created A-BIG-HOLE in your life. Many life have water,
drinkable and using to build house but fail to see how they were fetching it
inside holes basket to their destination in which before they arrive where they
are going, they now discover it was just ‘EMPTY BASKET’ that left.
Stop fooling yourself. Enough is
enough of wasted efforts. Discover the big holes inside your life and filling
it with God’s will and commandment. Soon! You will end well and be fulfilled.
Bless you.
IDCARES…
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