• JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
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    If you watch old movies made in LA you see a lot of wells and I remember wondering what happened to them the first time I went to LA.

  • Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works
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    We have this problem in Oklahoma the difference here is they built whole suburbs on top of the abandoned wells then move families into them. Worse when they don’t know how many of these wells there are but the numbers are in the high 100,000s.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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    Is this more like Poor LA residents/Poor neighborhoods?

    Because this screams lawsuits, especially in LA which is very big on lawsuits for personal health.

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    Actually, my husband and I live on top of one of those! We discovered this while we were renovating our downstairs bathroom, suddenly this black liquid started to bubble up. We now store it in big drums and use it to heat the dishwashing water and the house, and to drive the car. It may also explain the neck breaking migraines that we both have suffered from over the last 15 years, yet we remain hush-hush about our discovery, because we are in Dire Straits (economically, not the pop band). We would still vote Trump should he run again.

  • aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    This got me thinking. I move every 4-8 years and adapt to the new living conditions. I suspect this hedges against any unknown issues my living conditions have that I’m unaware of. For example, I never filtered my water until I moved someplace where it was necessary and I just kept the habit. Maybe I should have been filtering water my entire life but moving forced me to create this habit.

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    It should also be noted that the area has so much underground petroleum that it leaks out of the streets along the Wilshire corridor, especially near the La Brea Tar Pits.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      Kept trying to get me to download their app. Had to do a workaround just to get to see the image.
      Here it is below, so no one else has to deal with this shit.