Chesterfield Online Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Old Cruser on February 15, 2014, 01:46:56 PM
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As another sink hole appears estimated at 20 feet deep at the side of a house, I'm wondering if it's all the extra rainfall we have had that has caused them?
The pictures on the news look quite frightening and residents of the homes obviously had a lucky escape
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Not as big as this one in Guatemala
(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k148/simondjuk/sinkhole-guatemala_zps548840cc.jpg) (http://s87.photobucket.com/user/simondjuk/media/sinkhole-guatemala_zps548840cc.jpg.html)
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There was a programme on about them a couple of weeks ago.
There was one in Florida (i think) last year where it was inside a house and the bloke was asleep. The body has never been found. Scientists put a probe in to check its state and by the time they had done that and walked back to the measuring equipment, the probe had been sucked down a couple of feet.
Very scary. Also very weird how many are appearing. One in the Dales, one in the middle of the M2 in Kent, more to follow i should imagine.
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Isn't Chesterfield built over old mine shafts and tunnels... Eeek!!
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Our house massive subsidence and its all caused by mining under the town. In fact I think most of our area is bulit over old mines.
Must admit it's a little scarey... :(