Texas Brine official says giant Louisiana sinkhole could double in size

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Life in the community of Bayou Corne has been anything but normal since a giant sinkhole opened up. One official says the surface of the sinkhole could double in size. Right now, it is at 26 acres.

Residents have moved away from the place they once called home. Their frustrations and fears still planted on their properties.

"We have a geoprobe in the front yard. We have a geoprobe in the backyard, very active," said resident Carla Alleman.

Alleman and her neighbors live just a couple thousand feet from the sinkhole. This is what is going on in their backyards more than a year after they were evacuated from their homes. Scientists are monitoring the site on foot and by air boat, keeping constant watch over the growing sinkhole.

"My husband and I struggle because we don't know where to go because this was it. This was it," said Candy Blanchard.

President of United Brine, a subsidiary of Texas Brine, Mark Cartwright, explains what it looked like more than a year ago, just hours after the sinkhole began growing.