It's for the new site of Mini Bertha for the Transit Bike Tunnel

Must see:
http://www.mysteryhole.com/

Oh please God let it be mole people...

You mean to say no one immediately checked google maps?

I suspect this is the source of the smelly fog

The mayor's subtle sense of humor combined with the unanswered pleas for some kind of public facilities in the neighborhood? I have to try it out tomorrow.

@6: Crap, has Bertha gone Boneshaker on us?

Whatever it is, it's Obama's fault.

I live in fear of the day my partner's workplace is swallowed up and takes him with it. :(

It is just the beginning.
http://mynorthwest.com/129/2215711/Remem…

Secret fracking. Or as Grant said C.H.U.D.s

That's a depression. Like what I'm trying not to be in.

@BerthaDeBlues

Isn't that whole area built on fill? My vague memory is that it's a giant liquefaction zone in an earthquake. It's probably a little premature to blame every sinkhole on tunneling if the area has really poor soil conditions.

@14, yes, it is, but the disturbance of the tunneling has an effect on the fill. Duh.

@15 - correlation does not imply causation.

@16 But when there's smoke, there's fire.

If it turns out to be mole people those underground tours are going to have the hottest tickets in town.

I live across the street from this "hole". There has been a small stream of steam coming from it the last couple of nights.

Lotsa landslides on the south beach of Magnolia/Discovery Park too. All the clay that's fallen is fresh, the bluffs are coming down hard. Who can say if it's all related to Bertha and the tunnel project, or the seawall, or the CSO sewage project or covert military operations or what. Who fucking knows, but they definitely rolled in some fake weather the other day. And if you look out over the Bay it's always swelling and rising and rippling in the weirdest fuckin way. It would take something extremeley powerful to make an entire body of water's surface move up like that.

nuclear submarines... ?

@20/21 The stupid scientists would have you believe that the moon's gravitational pull and atmospheric or subterranean conditions are the cause. The new House and Senate will soon reveal the truth.

@19 -- that intersection is within Seattle Steam's service area. It could be an underground steam heat pipe that's leaking.