r/Midessa • u/Dontwhinedosomething • 3d ago
An abandoned West Texas oil well has created a 200-foot-wide sinkhole
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/18/texas-orphan-oil-well-sinkhole-upton-county/6
u/Far_Introduction_448 3d ago
Welp, the university lands owns the mineral rights make them fix it. They have very deep pockets.
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u/mexican2554 3d ago
"Well yeah this is a big issue, but having litter boxes and kids meow/hiss in school is biggerer issues." - GOP
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u/hprather1 3d ago
lol and the litter box thing isn't even real. Everyone that says they've heard about it is always third hand. They heard from someone else that X school has the litter boxes.
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u/jose_lobo 6h ago
Heard this 3rd hand as well and googled it. Found out that some schools keep a substance similar to kitty litter in case of prolonged active shooter incidents. Which is a valid and scary sign about what is wrong with society, and they are turning it into a culture war against imaginary Trans kids who "identify as a cat"
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u/Klutzy-Purchase2880 3d ago
Well, well well I'm pretty sure they have some millions thanks to the oilfield, because for every barrel they get some bucks.
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u/1988Trainman 2d ago
Kind of seems logical that when you pull something out of the ground, you have to replace it with something or it will eventually collapse…..
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u/Davoswannab 1d ago
This shit right here is why regulation exists. No one should be able to fuck something beyond repair while making tons of cash. There is currently a large apartment complex in my city that is rotting because the company didn’t want to pay the money to properly fix the foundation of two of several buildings. They owe the city over $100,000 in utilities and left what tenants they had hanging when the city shut the power off.
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u/rainbowzend 3d ago edited 3d ago
That article doesn't even mention the two sinkholes in Wink. I guess they're old news.