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[KSweeley]

Link: https://apnews.com/48e451111e7f4ca6...e-swallows-boat,-2-homes;-10-others-evacuated

July 14, 2017

A sinkhole that started out the size of a small swimming pool and continued to grow in Florida swallowed a boat, destroyed two homes and prompted officials to evacuate residents from 10 other homes on Friday.

Dramatic video showed the home, north of Tampa in Pasco County, collapsing into the hole on Friday morning. The hole quickly grew to 200 feet (60 meters) wide — about two-thirds the length of a football field — and 50 feet (15 meters) deep.

Pasco County Fire Chief Shawn Whited told reporters that no one was at the home when crews arrived just after 7:30 a.m. Someone had called about a “depression” under a boat parked in the backyard of a home in Lake Padgett Estates in Land O’Lakes. Within minutes, he said, “the hole opened up,” and the boat fell in.

Firefighters were able to get two dogs out of the home and retrieve some belongings before the first home started collapsing into the quickly-expanding hole. By early afternoon, the home next door also had been destroyed by the sinkhole.

No injuries have been reported.

 

[Shauni]

Mar-a-lago continues to hunger for taxpayer money.

 

[Kayhan]

FloridaHole strikes again.

Is nowhere safe?

 

[Slayven]

Read a geology paper about how Florida is full of limestone holes, it looks like a sponge. And they predicted this type of shit would happened more and more

 

[888]

Grew up in the area and it is notorious for Sink Holes, basically most of Fl is. I signed paperwork on a new house a bit further down the main road as I saw the report. Not shocking sadly. In some of the areas in older pockets the builders would chop down trees and bury them, then build on top of them. Then as they decayed..well you have the idea.

The thing grew even bigger too. All of the rain isn't helping either.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Mar-a-lago continues to hunger for taxpayer money.

Except that lame joke makes no sense in this case

 

[SchrodingerC]

Please sinkhole, grow large enough to make Pasco county disappear completely.

 

[Ponn]

And they are pushing to start fracking here.


Edit: JFC, HE EVEN FUCKING COMES TO DEFEND MAR LAGOS HONOR!! The man is a goddamn machine for Trump. Like a Trump signal.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

“It was frightening,” Guthrie said. “The people coming out of those houses were frightened. Mother Nature is going to take what Mother Nature takes.”

A strange characterization of the sinkhole epidemic, my understanding of which includes the notion that sinkhole formation and damage have accelerated tremendously in the wake of aquifers collapsing due to massive spikes in public and private demand for groundwater. This isn't Mother Nature's fault.

 

[TheCochese]

Except that lame joke makes no sense in this case

I can't even defend this shit anymore.

 

[Lucky Seven]

A big FloridaHole for FloridaMan

 

[norm9]

We all knew the road to hell is through Florida.

 

[Stinkles]

Even my neighbor's kid has a drone, but Reuters? No. Here's a portrait view of a sinkhole.

 

[888]

I can't even defend this shit anymore.

I don't know his history but it was a bit of a shit post and lame joke. Not everything has to be a trump related thread.

 

[Slayven]

Even my neighbor's kid has a drone, but Reuters? No. Here's a portrait view of a sinkhole.

Now i am picturing you as Mr.Wilson from Dennis the Menace

 

[Mr.Shrugglesツ]

Except that lame joke makes no sense in this case

You could say ......... nothing came of it.

 

[dsp]

Please sinkhole, grow large enough to make Pasco county disappear completely.

That would be a beautiful thing to see.

 

[888]

That would be a beautiful thing to see.

I would say so, but that would be bad for me. Now maybe West Pasco, Holiday, NPR, Hudson etc.

Basically a flood could do that.

 

[David___]

And they are pushing to start fracking here.


Edit: JFC, HE EVEN FUCKING COMES TO DEFEND MAR LAGOS HONOR!! The man is a goddamn machine for Trump. Like a Trump signal.

It's a 24/7 job, comrade.