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BREAKING: Officials describe Florida sinkhole that swallowed man as 'seriously unstable' and say it will grow - SM
One of the comments on the above article reminded me. I think it was last year around this time when a huge sinkhole opened up on I 4. Many believe some of this is due to the large amounts of water the strawberry farmers use especially when temps get close to freezing. This is more common than you would think, but my husband who has lived here for ions can't recall a human life taken.
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MORE: Official says no one can go into the house because they are afraid of losing more lives. http://apne.ws/Wuk1Ak - SM
CP we were discussing this at work today. One of my co-workers who lived in that area before moving said the same thing about he strawberry farmers and the aquifer. I was thinking when I first heard on news this morning you hear about that so much in that area of Florida. Now I understand better, but don't understand. I still don't get the sink holes.
Just watch the live clip on ABC so sad. The officer that pulled the bro out look like he was about to cry. Said he had been there all of his shift last night. When he got off he could only sleep for about an hour and half. I'm sure it was an horrible site to see. I did read on one news site that the bro was saying you could hear the other bro hollering for a while. Omg!
There is already a thread for this in the Up to the Minute forum:
FL Brandon, Sinkhole Swallows House, Man Trapped - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/ne...an-one-of-hundreds-that-have-formed-over-eons
Info on sink holes in Florida
Thanks QueenD. From the article above interesting information.
Notably, the Brandon area is prone to the most sinkholes, called "cover collapse" sinkholes. They develop very quickly and are nearly impossible to predict.
One of the most famous sinkholes in Central Florida developed in 1981 in Winter Park near Orlando.
The sinkhole was first spotted by Mae Rose Owens when the ground began collapsing next to her home on West Comstock Avenue. Within a day or so, the sinkhole swallowed Owens' home, five Porsches at a car dealership and and a good chunk of the town's Olympic-sized swimming pool, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
My prayers are with everyone...but especially with the man who tried to save his brother. How terrible to live with that.
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Herding Cats
There's no mining of anything anywhere even remotely near this city. Mostly orange groves and crops. But mining? In Florida? Nope. Not even close.
Florida sits on limestone. Limestone is easily eroded by water. But my theory (being a native Floridian) is that the limestone creates little pinnacles and we've been sucking the water out from underneath for a long long time - leaving nothing but crusty, brittle, weak points for all this concrete to sit on. Once it goes - it goes....
"Mortgage companies are more and more requiring Florida home buyers to have sinkhole coverage on their homeowners insurance policy," said K.C. Williams, a Tampa sinkhole and property damage claims lawyer who lives 2 miles away from the damaged home.
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