sink holes

[aliensurfer]

a 35ft across 20ft deep sink hole has appeared in one of the roads locally and forced 17 houses to be evacuated - quite worrying as that road is at the top of the hill on one one side of the 'valley' the town is in, if the water has done that uphill, how bad might it be underground down in the bottom of hills (given it's a very chalky area) - anyone know more about how they happen, intrigued - just in case I have to evacuate the lead pile to another house

only pic thus far : https://twitter.com/Conormoore69/status ... 04/photo/1

only just saw it break on sky news.

[An Absent Humphrey]

One appeared on the M2 earlier in the week. I got caught in the same tailback, and decided to take the same cross-country route home that every other fucker decided to.

[geronimo]

One appeared on the M2 earlier in the week. I got caught in the same tailback, and decided to take the same cross-country route home that every other fucker decided to.

Yup, turned my 20 minute journey home into 2 hours of crawling. Might have been marginally more fun to go all Doug McClure and drive down the fucker.

[richred_uk]

My place in WGC is perfectly placed to receive lead refugees



The human owners can sod off to a hotel if they need to evacuate though.

[Vermis]

if the water has done that uphill, how bad might it be underground down in the bottom of hills (given it's a very chalky area) - anyone know more about how they happen, intrigued

I looked it up on wikipedia once - does that count?

I'd guess the bottom of the valley is okay, or at least safer, 'cos most of the chalk layer would've already eroded away to form it. But... yeah. Don't quote me. (out of very nerdy interest, are they gentle rolling hills or a kind of downy, scarpy, craggy lot?)

35 feet though - jings.

[Ace From Outer Space]

Fuck! Those are scary...

[The Masked Frother]

Last year (or the year before) one in Quebec swallowed a house and the family inside. I don't think they ever recovered the bodies b/c it was too unsafe to try.

[Germy Bugger]

Horizon have just done a prog about sink holes
No one watching it would ever move to Florida!

[Ace From Outer Space]

Horizon have just done a prog about sink holes
No one watching it would ever move to Florida!

I caught the end of an American program about sink holes a couple of days ago and they were in Florida. Scarey stuff!

[THE Killer Bob]

Yup, turned my 20 minute journey home into 2 hours of crawling. Might have been marginally more fun to go all Doug McClure and drive down the fucker.

You might have found Caroline Munro down there!