Super, mega, double DOOHH!!!!

[shmoov69]

How would you like to be sittin' on the throne reading a paper and this happen!??!?
This was just a few miles from me!
http://news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll...73/1007/NEWS01
Pics
http://news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll...H&Profile=1007

[Bill Howell]

That sounds like my luck there. Damn what a freakin hole. It is hard to beleive that mammoth cave was under the area and no cracked driveway, not sagging walls, nothing. Even if they don't condemn the lot, it would be very expensive to fill the hole and pack it correctly.

[Beeper]

Look at the bright side... he's got a huge basement

[Damn True]

Good lord, that thing has to be 25' deep!

Geologically speaking, how does something like that happen?

[dropit69]

id just hate to be his neighbor!!!....when's my house falling..lol

[TonyHuntimer]

One of those happened in California about a month ago. A school teacher walked down the hall and his living room fell into a sinkhole. He went with it. He didn't make it out.

Scary stuff.

Tony Huntimer
RaceHome.com

[aonghus]

its 75" deep and growing....

sinkholes form from limestones or softer stone deposits that that are built up in an area, as time goes on water seeps through the soil and erodes the limestone beneath the topsoil, until one day, bam. Big hole.


Friend and I were driving to school about 2 months ago, down the 209 (big main/highway street in our neighborhood) getting onto the 8, we get almost all the way to school about 20 miles away, next thing we know newsradio is telling us a sinkhole 20 feet deep and 50 feet across formed right where we had just driven. Had we been late, who knows. lol

[Happyfunballs]

Just curious.....would insurance cover this? Would you need to have special sinkhole coverage? Does Farmers have a sinkhole disaster recovery team? Your thoughts?

[Dagger]

Sinkholes are super common in the Tampa/Clearwater, FL area. My previous home had one under it. It was causing the foundation to settle and crack rather than swallowing the house completely. Currently, sinkholes are covered under common homeowners insurance unlike flood coverage; but, the insurance industry is trying to wiggle out of covering them. Big surprise.

[rob07002]

That sounds like my luck there. Damn what a freakin hole. It is hard to beleive that mammoth cave was under the area and no cracked driveway, not sagging walls, nothing. Even if they don't condemn the lot, it would be very expensive to fill the hole and pack it correctly.

So they need an expert packer....

[Bill Howell]

Good lord, that thing has to be 25' deep!

Geologically speaking, how does something like that happen?

Come on True, you are the school teacher.....lol
A 50X50X100 hole would take 10000 cubic yards of concrete to fill.

Even with $65 per yard flow and fill, that is 650K. Then add 15%...I need that repair job....

[Beegs]

We'll call it a 60 foot diameter hole, 75 feet deep: 7850 yards plus 10% = 8635 yards.

[Steve Chryssos]

Boy, What's yo dirt doin in my hole?

[Damn True]

Come on True, you are the school teacher.....lol
A 50X50X100 hole would take 10000 cubic yards of concrete to fill.

Even with $65 per yard flow and fill, that is 650K. Then add 15%...I need that repair job....

LOL, that is why it looks only 25' deep to me. I'm looking at a computer screen that is about the size of a plam pilot.

On the bright side, on this screen Johnson looks thin!

[Bill Howell]

We'll call it a 60 foot diameter hole, 75 feet deep: 7850 yards plus 10% = 8635 yards.

I will still take the job......lol

[CarlC]

Boy, What's yo dirt doin in my hole?

Got your mind right Steve?

[BonzoHansen]

Holy hole, Batman!

[muthstryker]

woah.. that reminds me of something i was just told last night, we have almost 2 acres that we are going to be devoloping. and these old ppl came over and said that they have lived there for 30+ yrs and there is a mind shaft on the property. they told me where abouts it is but they dont know how far it down under. but if we find it ill take some pics. i hope its tehre that would be crazy to see.

[Bill Howell]

woah.. that reminds me of something i was just told last night, we have almost 2 acres that we are going to be devoloping. and these old ppl came over and said that they have lived there for 30+ yrs and there is a mind shaft on the property. they told me where abouts it is but they dont know how far it down under. but if we find it ill take some pics. i hope its tehre that would be crazy to see.

Mine shaft maybe???

Actually a shaft underground might not be such a good thing depending on the development you have in mind. Hopefully there are no old easements across your property you are unaware of.

[TonyHuntimer]

woah.. that reminds me of something i was just told last night, we have almost 2 acres that we are going to be devoloping. and these old ppl came over and said that they have lived there for 30+ yrs and there is a mind shaft on the property. they told me where abouts it is but they dont know how far it down under. but if we find it ill take some pics. i hope its tehre that would be crazy to see.

That's how the guy in California died in his own house. The old mine shaft under the house colapsed and opened up a huge hole under his house.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12457889/
http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=17196

Be careful,
Tony Huntimer
RaceHome.com