Comments on: Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:49:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Longtime1000 https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-76040 Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:16:03 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-76040 Thanks for all your work over the years. I enjoy damn interesting week regularly.

]]> By: Hayley https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-76036 Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:01:58 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-76036 Is today your birthday??? Does this count as your first article ever?? Happy birthday Damn Interesting! I have been an intermittent reader for your full 20 years, though first time commenter if you can believe that, and have almost finished listening to your entire podcast archives. Thank you for all the years of great articles, I have always loved them.

]]> By: Kevin https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-76030 Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:04:34 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-76030 Happy birthday to the Damn Interesting team! Thanks for all your hard work over the years.

One of the first podcasts I started listening to, but I haven’t spent enough time on the site. I have a lot to catch up on!

]]> By: Paul https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-73663 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:23:17 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-73663 *Bayless

]]> By: Paul https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-73662 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:05:55 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-73662 For an interesting first hand account, here’s my father recalling the incident. He was an employee of Live Oak Gardens and witnessed everything that morning from the balcony of the Bayliss mansion, whose chimney juts out of the lake now.

https://youtu.be/l1ajs6tVbFQ

]]> By: Eynigma https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-73320 Tue, 05 May 2020 20:35:01 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-73320 Shouldn’t “and they were unable free it…” Be “and they were unable TO free it…”? No criticism, just trying to help out…

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-73221 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 01:41:06 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-73221 I am back.

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-73127 Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:39:23 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-73127 I am returned.

]]> By: random student without his priorities straight https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-72990 Sat, 14 Sep 2019 22:48:46 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-72990 That is damn interesting. Never heard about this until yesterday in my Earth Systems class. Really enjoyed this article about it too!

]]> By: Shstrang https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-72927 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:08:30 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-72927 I remember hearing this on the radio and I was amazed at the thought of it.

Amazing no one was killed.

I bet some engineers career was.

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