Welcome to the town that is falling into the earth
“They” were a grove of cypress trees; “down” was into a sinkhole in rural Louisiana that had steadily grown to a depth of several hundred feet of fetid water — and was in the throes of a violent growth spurt.
Boudreaux’s video, posted on YouTube in late August, went viral in the way that recordings of disaster tend to, leading to alarmist headlines: eg “Mining Madness: 750-Foot-Deep Sinkhole Swallows Louisiana Town”.
