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At 2am officials got a call of stink in downtown LA but found nothing. But 12 hours later a "black tarry substance" was coming up through the ground, manhole covers and sidewalks along Olive Street. Oozing. Bubbling, even. 120 feet of Olive St has cracked and risen about 18 inches. An apartment building was evacuated; it may not be able to withstand the shifting ground. Exactly what the smell or substance is, where it's coming from, or how to stop it remains a mystery. Sounds like The Blob to us.
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So you're driving behind one of those auto transport trucks on the freeway and the irrational, lizard part of your brain thinks Yikes, what if that Escalade came unchained and rolled down onto my car? Then the rational, human brain steps in and tells you that of course it's not going to come crashing down, those things are locked in place. Except for today on the 101, when an SUV rolled off its carrier into traffic and flipped over. Which means two things: 1) traffic delays. 2) go ahead and switch lanes the next time you see a car-carrying truck — your lizard brain is right.
totally unrelated by freakishly appropriate photo by iboy daniel via Flickr
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Might it be, y'know, oil? They seem to find that everywhere around here.
I predict that oil seeps are going to appear in all sorts of unexpected places over the next few years as still-productive oil wells are replaced by housing tracts.
Check out this topographic map of downtown LA. The small red cross is positioned at the site of the "tar" seepage.
Notice the oil well just a couple of blocks to the south?
Here is the same area as an aerial view from Windows Live Local.
You'll have to scroll the view a bit to see it, but it appears there is some sort of petroleum-related facility at the location where the topo map shows the oil well.