Sinkholes: Hungry, Lurking, and Coming for a Van Near You
Sinkholes, nature’s version of the Morlocks, are fascinating and scary things. They appear out of nowhere, swallowing up homes and vehicles like a muddy repossession agent.
A massive sinkhole currently devouring a major downtown street in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, caused commuter chaos, ruptured a water and gas main, flooded a partly constructed underground LRT station, and took the life of an innocent Dodge Grand Caravan.
The model might have been spared by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, but this vehicle wasn’t. Ottawa was last in the sinkhole news in 2012, when a man (and his Hyundai Accent) was gobbled up by a malevolent freeway.
Let this be a lesson to all drivers: the Earth is hungry.
See video of the meal after the break.
The van on Rideau Street is now under water pic.twitter.com/l6Gk5WjM2s
— CTV Ottawa (@ctvottawa) June 8, 2016
@CTV_Television @ctvottawa @CBCOttawa @metroottawa @ottawacity pic.twitter.com/zPpEWApnqX
— Mitch (@mitchmcewen_) June 8, 2016
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Damn. My parents house (the whole area, very large) sits on top of a humongous Salt Dome. They're storing Natural Gas in it at a facility not far away. Nothing to worry about, they say. Remind me that when I'm sitting in their kitchen and I can feel a school bus or other heavy truck through the house's concrete slab foundation. The whole house jiggles and dishes chatter sometimes. Then there is the Army instalment near by that practices with live bombs that shake the house (100 miles roughly away) like thunder. Its enough to wear on my nerves, lol. It feels like the earth is very thin and is vibrating excessively, especially eerie when a heavy truck goes by. Now I live in Florida and I was told it has more sinkholes than anywhere. I read similar is true about Kentucky (the famous Corvette Museum sinkhole as evidence). If I go to Washington, its land/mudslide territory, on top of earthquakes. The house I stay in when I'm there is perched on the side of a embankment. The distance between the side of the house and edge has shrunk from large enough to drive through with a very small vehicle, ATV, lawn tractor, etc in the 1990s into so tiny that you have to walk sideways to get between the house and the edge as of a couple of years ago. Its a disaster waiting to happen. This is 20 +/- miles from the devastating Oso slide a few years back. They couldn't access some of their owned property north of the slide area (a cabin, land) for months. Got nowhere to run to, baby! -Martha and the Vandellas I believe.
I was born in an area in New Zealand where this happened a lot. Holes would appear suddenly as limestone caves under the ground collapsed . pretty interesting for a bunch of kids when part of the sports feild suddenly dropped one day.
Never mind Ottawa sinkholes.. Canada's Navy is sunk. All four of Canada's 2nd hand British Leyland submarines are non- operational. They came without Leycare... The other NORTH Korea manages better.
BL made Submarines ?! . . there's a nasty joke in there..... . -Nate