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The South Olive Street Blob, as it has been dubbed, has made headlines around the country. The rising slick of black goo first made it's appearance in the basement of an apartment building in downtown Los Angeles. Later the 1200 block of South Olive Street was closed when pavement heaved and the oily ooz began to bubble from cracks and around manhole covers.
No one knew the source of this hot black liquid building pressure beneath their feet. Meanwhile, in a small shack in Alaska, a crewman monitoring the Trans Alaska Pipeline noticed a steady drop in oil pressure. He ran out of his monitoring shack several times to check the dipstick but it read the same everytime. He even checked the O-rings and oil filters and all seemed to be in order.
Scratching his head the worker sat befuddled, and wondered what he would tell his superiors...
Actually (all kidding aside) the local Los Angeles authorities checked with a petroleum drilling site located two blocks from the apartment building and learned that they had been pumping pressurized hot water into old wells to draw out left over crude oil. Looks like they need to check their O-rings and seals in the LA underground.
Residents began to report a foul smell along with the oozing substance, so apparently the underground oil well operations and sewage plant have crossed pipes somewhere.
The LA underground is riddled with many old pipelines from past oil operations. Further investigation as well as excavating is required to determine exactly what occurred, and the extent of the damage. Meanwhile many residents of the apartment building are staying at a Red Cross shelter established in a nearby High School.
Hopefully they'll be able to return home soon.
Here's hoping your weekend is free of any oily deposits and unpleasant pressure. Maybe stay away from the beans.
Drew
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