Egyptian Gumbo

I just saw this news article, which just made me say, “Subhanallah!” We tend think about earthquakes, tornadoes, cyclones and tsunamis when referring to natural disasters — but now you can add “Sinkholes” to that list. And apparently there is a major one in Texas.

I’ve never heard of sinkhole before today. News.aol.com reported sinkholes can sometimes be caused by “The collapse of an old salt dome where oil brine and natural gas are stored underground.”

It’s apprently expanding and takes about 2 weeks to fully stabilize. It just shows another ayah of the might and power of Allah! One thought always comes to my mind when thinking about these natural disasters: they Day of Judgment; how scary it actually is when you see these things. WAllahul musta’an.

Alhamdulillah, so far there have been no reports of injuries. Here are some pictures for your viewing: (I’m going to be “un-journalistic” and not put captions nor credits for these photos.. if you want to see the source to go yahoo news and aol news.. nor will I edit this post, I’m tired.)

this thing is 900 feet wide and about 200 feet DEEP

Here’s an article about it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_us/texas_sinkhole;_ylt=AtE7YKFaZ9_wabM6dU10b1BsaMYA
La qowwita illa billah.

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