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, 01 Nov 2022 15:11:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 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.

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-72742 Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:03:36 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-72742 And now a third reading.

]]> By: Y https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-72737 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:33:03 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-72737 Look it this shameful plagiarism https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-lake-peigneur-disaster

]]> By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/#comment-72636 Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:51:15 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=6#comment-72636 As always, I love a second reading, this one eleven years later.

Am I the only one who re-reads the articles that occasionally appear in the Curated column?

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