Blogs Jun 1, 2010 at 2:10 pm

The Sinkholes Are Coming for Us

David Schmader
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Maybe if they keep draining the Everglades the entire state of Florida will just drop down a big hole and be covered by the ocean. As far a Guatemala goes, there's another cenote for the tourists to dive in. It may draw in some foreign exchange.
thatsnotright on June 1, 2010 at 2:18 PM Report this
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Sinkholes are common in Florida due to the geology. It's a karst landscape, meaning there's lots of highly dissolvable limestone bedrock that gets hollowed out by acidic moisture and forms giant underground caves that collapse when they get too big.
I have always been... east coaster on June 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM Report this
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My theory is that the Gulf oil spewage is creating a huge vault in the earth that's sucking weak areas down towards itself. We should check this out with Golob.
Patti on June 1, 2010 at 2:29 PM Report this
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C.H.U.D.s
Grant Brissey, Emeritus on June 1, 2010 at 2:33 PM Report this
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I'm surprised nobody's tried to blame it on global warming yet.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on June 1, 2010 at 2:36 PM Report this
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The sinkholes have already been here. They left. We were too boring for them.

http://www.seattle.gov/CityArchives/Exhi…
Catalina Vel-DuRay on June 1, 2010 at 2:36 PM Report this
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So this Florida shopping mall with the sink hole has a church? People go to a church in a mall? (Are you allowed to bring in your Orange Julius?) Florida is a strange land indeed.
Free Lunch on June 1, 2010 at 2:46 PM Report this
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@4: SCUDs, dammit!
venomlash on June 1, 2010 at 2:58 PM Report this
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The one in Guatemala is scary. Their must be a huge cavern underneath it, or something. I would be moving.
gttim on June 1, 2010 at 2:59 PM Report this
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"A 20-foot hole has opened underneath an Orlando shopping center that holds several businesses and a church."

When will Floridians understand that God hates Republicans for all of their secret sinning?
Sweet&Salty on June 1, 2010 at 3:01 PM Report this
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That Guatemalan one looks fake to me. Just too perfectly symmetrical and out of place.

The huge underground caves in Florida are for real, though. There is a little cottage industry of spelunkers down there.
Sir Vic on June 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM Report this
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@9: I agree. Something about the sheer depth and perfect roundness of the hole is just damn disconcerting.
laterite on June 1, 2010 at 3:10 PM Report this
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All the cenotes you see in the Yucatan Peninsula and guatemala are always very round. there must be some geo-physical resaon for it.
thatsnotright on June 1, 2010 at 3:26 PM Report this
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There was the sinkhole that went chomp chomp in Eastlake a few years ago.

And Greenwood's built on a peat bog so is probably due for a sinkhole - perhaps right after they finish rebuilding what that arsonist burned down. Asshole sinkhole.
shabadoo on June 1, 2010 at 5:53 PM Report this
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Ugh... I hope BOTHELL is not on weak land....
yddiv on February 12, 2011 at 2:56 PM Report this

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