Black gold, Texas tea!

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Officials Find No Cause For Sticky Situation

POSTED: 3:00 p.m. EST February 4, 2004
UPDATED: 3:26 p.m. EST February 4, 2004

LONGVIEW, Texas -- When visiting the home of an east Texas woman, you can't help but think about the television show "The Beverly Hillbillies."



That's because Leila Letourneau's home is literally filling up with so-called "black gold." Oil, that is.

According to Letourneau, she returned home Monday to find that an inch of raw crude oil had seeped up from the ground and into her home.

Despite the unusual occurrence, Letourneau said hers is the only house in the neighborhood to be affected.

"I went to both neighbors on either side to see if they were having any problems, across the street to see if anybody else had come home to this type situation, and none of them (...had) anything," Letourneau said.

Fire officials are investigating the cause of the problem.

Meanwhile, Letourneau said there are a number of pumping jacks near her neighborhood, but that there were no reported leaks.

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I would be drilling in my back yard. Get my own little refinery and gas station going and than go look for the 440 Dodge that I used to own because I could drive it all over the place.

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Didn't it come up her toilet? I thought I heard something about that...