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| yass | Feb 21 2014, 09:26 PM Post #16 |
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Amazing! At a glance I thought someone's post was an attempt to be funny and that these were just freshly dug graves. It wasn't until reviewing the posts today and checking out the link that I realized that this was deadly serious! Now sinkholes hit graves! Cemetery suffers collapse in GRAVESEND
21 February 2014 ![]() Collapse: Coffin-shaped holes have been opening up in the cemetery in Gravesend as a result of earth movements Dozens of coffin-shaped pits have opened up across a cemetery after weeks of rain caused the earth to give way over burial grounds. The alarming sinkhole phenomenon, which have exposed around 50 unmarked graves, raised fears deep cavities might be concealed just below the grass. Visitors are being warned to watch their step after the giant holes appeared at Gravesend Cemetery in Kent. ![]() Warning: Visitors have been told to be careful where they step in this Gravesend cemetery after large holes began to open up Several plots have sunk below ground level following weeks of heavy rain. Worried cemetery bosses have revealed they have never before seen graves sinking into the ground on such a scale. A technique known as backfilling has so far failed, as the heavy rain has seen the soil compact down. Now visitors have been warned to tread carefully - as holes may be lying underneath a mere 'carpet' of grass. The graves, including those at another cemetery in neighbouring Northfleet, have been sinking into the ground over the last fortnight. ![]() Unsettling: Heavy rain is being blamed for disturbing the earth and causing graves to collapse in on themselves A Gravesham Council spokesman said: 'It is quite common for graves to sink - especially after a period of heavy rain. 'However none of the current staff has seen anything on this scale. Both cemeteries have been affected but Northfleet is smaller and has been more manageable. 'There are two main reasons why it has happened. 'One is graves are backfilled with loose soil and they sink again once that soil gets so wet and heavy it compacts. 'One of the first areas that showed a problem had been backfilled three times and needed doing again. 'Secondly in the old section of the cemetery the graves are deeper, so there are larger cavities for the soil to sink into. 'We have been working hard to top up the affected graves using extra staff from other teams. 'It is a gradual process but it is a priority to deal with them.' Some of the graves have been taped off to keep people away from certain areas. Families have been visiting the site to check on family members buried there. A sign warns: 'The ground staff are backfilling them as soon as they can, but due to the scale of the problem, have had to tape off some areas where the situation is particularly bad. 'Please be careful when walking on the grass as sometimes the soil has compacted but the grass remains like a carpet over the hole.' Read more/view more pictures at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2564842/Now-sinkholes-hit-graves-Cemetery-suffers-collapse-GRAVESEND.html |
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| yass | Feb 21 2014, 09:32 PM Post #17 |
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It is. In other reports they just out with it.
From the link in Busa's post. ^^^
Really good video! Short and to the point. Okay, got to try to transfer some of this to "sinkhole events" thread. I also started an In the News thread elsewhere (another forum) and was attempting to get sinkhole news in it but I fell behind. It's a lot of work really. It'd be easier if the code were the same, like here it is size=2, there it is BIG and the more BIG'S you add, the bigger the font. Anyhoos... |
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| yass | Feb 21 2014, 09:45 PM Post #18 |
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Fresh post. I haven't had a chance to watch the videos yet but I imagine they are interesting enough.
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| yass | Feb 22 2014, 07:45 AM Post #19 |
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Text translated from a Polish website (courtesy of an awesome person who also provided the Polish term for sinkhole.) Huge sinkhole in Brazil swallowed whole street of houses 2014-01-09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cihaiPhq_Q Residents of the city Abaetetuba able Para, north Brazil, lived moments of terror. In an instant, the origins of landslides, which absorbs a large part of the street in the two buildings. The incident took place on Jan. 7, 2014 year. Frightening incident was recorded by one of the CCTV cameras. No information on possible victims in its wake. According to experts, this particular phenomenon is the result of erosion processes as a result of intensifying downpours. They cause a large amount of water flowing in the space resulting washed by buildings, which in turn leads to the formation of the funnels which absorb karst. translated webpage |
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| yass | Feb 22 2014, 07:55 PM Post #20 |
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Sinkhole swallows car in Rockville Centre ROCKVILLE CENTRE (WABC) -- A woman's car was swallowed up by a huge sinkhole right in her own driveway in Rockville Centre. "It's really hard to describe, it's just all of sudden swish, and stop," said Gail Sorrentino, sinkhole victim. Gail Sorrentino took a very strange ride in her car Friday afternoon and she didn't even have to leave her driveway. "I pulled in I'm looking at the arbor, and then I'm looking at the dirt," Sorrentino said, "The car just went down with no sound, no booms, no rattles no nothing." After pulling into the spot where she's parked every day for years, she found herself and her car suddenly underground after the earth swallowed her Subaru with Gail still in the driver's seat. There was nothing she could do but call 911. "I said, 'I'm calling from my car which is in a sinkhole in my driveway.' And there was this pause at the other end. And she said, 'Ma'am?' I said, 'I'm in the car!'" Sorrentino said. "You handled yourself very well," said John Thorp, Rockville Centre Fire Chief. "Thank you!" Sorrentino said. "You remained nice and calm through the whole thing," Thorp said. Rockville Centre Fire Chief John Thorp was among the first to arrive at the bizarre scene. It was caused, he says, after years of decay of a century-old cesspool under Gail's driveway. And after such prolonged cold, this week's dramatic thaw helped cause the biggest pothole he's ever seen. "Yeah, that opens your eyes up. If you were nodding out before hand, after you see that you're wide awake, that's for sure," Thorp said, "The major concern was to get her out of there as fast as possible." He grabbed a ladder and climbed into the widening abyss and pulled her to safety through the driver's window. The car was eventually towed, mud and all, to the street in front of Gail's house. Work crews filled in the cavernous hole with dirt. Back on terra firma, Gail tried to go on with her night. "It's just so weird! The circumstances? I mean if you tell this story to somebody? You think they'll really believe this? I don't know!" Sorrentino said. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/long_island&id=9440673 Long Island Woman's Car Swallowed By Driveway Sinkhole ![]() Sinkholes are probably the scariest thing this side of Ragnarök, but for the most part, NYC has been spared from falling into any cavernous holes in the ground (besides slushpuddles, of course). But all that changed yesterday when a Long Island woman's car was swallowed up by her driveway. "There was no sound. The car just slid into the ground," Gayle Sorrentino of Rockville Centre told the News about her experience Friday afternoon. Sorrentino, 69, was returning from an acupuncture appointment when the ground opened up with her still in the vehicle. "The car went in at like a straight angle," she said. "I pulled in looking at my beautiful backyard and then I was looking at a mound of dirt." Sorentino called 911, and wasn't hurt in the incident: "I was only afraid—the sand around started to come down a little bit, and I just didn't know if it was going to stay stationary or going to collapse," she told NBC. Her neighbor thinks the sinkhole opened up over a dry well from the 1920s, while authorities believe it is a "cesspool." Regardless, nothing ruins an acupuncture high like staring into a deep abyss in the ground. http://gothamist.com/2014/02/22/long_island_womans_car_swallowed_by.php Car plunges head first into hole after driveway crumbles, swallowing Long Island woman ![]() Sorrentino was able to call 911 from her cellphone. Within minutes firefighters arrived with a ladder outside her window. By late Friday evening the immediate cause of the hole wasn't known. Police believe it is a cesspool and its top simply caved, said Rockville Officer Julie Grilli. "It's very out of the norm," she told the Daily News. Grilli called it the first incident of its kind for the area. ![]() As a precaution Sorrentino's driveway was cordoned off while sand was filled in. As for her car, a white Subaru Outback, she exclaimed, "It looks perfectly fine!" "They were able to drive it, down the driveway and park it on the street, so it's functional," she gushed. "It's like a little miracle." http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hole-swallows-car-long-island-woman-driveway-crumbles-article-1.1654627 Car Plunges Headfirst Into Sinkhole as Woman Parks in Driveway Osborne said he believed that the sinkhole opened up over a dry well from the 1920s, while authorities described it as a cesspool. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Car-in-Sinkhole-Long-Island-Rockville-Centre--246577781.html Rockville Centre woman drives into sinkhole The fire chief said he went down a ladder, pulled Sorrentino out through the driver's side window and "passed her up the line." Thorp added: "If they were going to put it in a textbook, that's the way it should be done." The sinkhole made its appearance shortly before 1 p.m., according to Scully. A relative of Sorrentino saw her predicament and called 911, Thorp said. The early arrival of pothole season, thanks to the recent pattern of freezes and thaws, likely played a part in the hole opening up, Thorp said. "There are probably going to be a lot of these popping up, especially with the weather we've had," he said. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/rockville-centre-woman-drives-into-sinkhole-1.7164850?firstfree=yes |
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