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Sinkhole cracks pavement across four-lane road in Torrance, California


Daily Breeze
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 23:01 UTC
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A water main break Sunday caused a sinkhole, which closed a stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance for about five hours.

Police were dispatched at 7 a.m. to Crenshaw Boulevard, between 168th and 170th streets, to provide traffic control as utility crews fill up sinkhole, according to a news release from the Torrance Police Department.

"There were cracks (in the pavement) across all [four] lanes of traffic," the release stated.

It was not immediately known if any water service was interrupted due to the water main brake.

Crenshaw Boulevard was closed between 168th and 170th streets at about 7:25 a.m. Police expected the big hole to be filled and traffic lanes re-opened by 12:30 p.m., police said.
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Massive sinkhole opens along historic Route 66 near Pacific, Missouri

Jason Aubry
ksdk.com
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:30 UTC
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There are many things that I couldn't tell from a hole in the ground.

The sinkhole along Historic Route 66 in Pacific, Missouri, is not one of them. It truly is a hole in the ground, a 70-foot by 50-foot hole — as of Friday afternoon — that was deep enough to swallow a two story building.

According to an engineer working for a company contracted by the city, the cause of the sinkhole was the collapse of a storm sewer pipe.

The 6- to 7-foot wide pipe, was installed in the undeveloped farm field back in the 1980's.

It was attached to the cement box culvert that ran under the highway at the time.

The engineer believes the connection joint failed and the pipe was crushed after years of deterioration.

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Man falls into three-metre-deep sinkhole that appears in floor at home in China


South China Morning Post
Sun, 04 Sep 2016 14:17 UTC
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A young man relaxing in the lounge of a five-storey house in northwestern China fell into a three-metre-deep sinkhole that suddenly appeared in the floor, mainland media reports.

The 1.82 metre tall man disappeared into the two-metre-wide hole while staying at his uncle's home in the city of Xian of Shaanxi province last Thursday, the news portal Cnwest.com reported.

He was taken to hospital for treatment to injuries to his waist after falling onto bricks that collapsed into the bottom of the hole.

The man's uncle said he believed the sinkhole had formed because of water leaking from a nearby pipeline.

He had spotted water leaking from the same pipe at the bottom of the hole, he said.
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Two giant sinkholes open on Miami, Florida turnpike

Mimi Whitefield
Miami Herald
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 15:46 UTC
Miami sinkholes
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Two giant holes opened up Saturday afternoon in the southbound lanes of Florida's Turnpike near Hard Rock Stadium, snarling traffic and closing lanes and two exits.

Crew continued to repair the sinkhole-like openings early Sunday morning and lanes reopened after 10 a.m.

"No one was hurt. That is our mission, said Joe Sanchez, a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol.

"Can you imaging a car, doing 75 miles per hour, running into this?

The openings aren't natural-occurring sinkholes because they were caused by a broken water line under a southbound section of the turnpike just north of Northwest 199th Street in Miami-Dade County.

Southbound traffic iwas diverted to the Homestead Extension (821) of the Turnpike. The 2X (NW 199th St.) and 4X (County Line Road) exits were shut down.

FHP said it was notified of the holes at 1 p.m. Saturday. There were no immediate reports of damage to vehicles or injuries related to the holes in the highway.

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20-foot sinkhole closes intersection in Phoenix, Arizona


AZ Family
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:57 UTC
59th and Indian School road sinkhole in Phoenix
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A sinkhole has closed the intersection of 59th Avenue and Indian School Road in west Phoenix.

Emergency crews responded to the scene Monday morning.

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Elvis has left the sinkhole: 20 foot deep sinkhole opens up and swallows miniature horse named Elvis in Garrard County, Kentucky


Lex18
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:01 UTC
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A miniature horse who was missing for 10 days is back in his stable tonight.

Elvis, a family favorite, was found 20 feet down a sinkhole on his owner's property in Garrard County.

"And we brought him back from the dead. He's alive, healthy and doing great," said Robin Snowden, the property owner.

The Snowdens thought Elvis had run away, or was lost in the woods.

They had no idea he was still on the property until a worker noticed a large sinkhole, with Elvis at the bottom.
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U.S. Senators trying to muzzle climate change skeptics

Dave Trabert
Kansas Policy Institute
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:57 UTC
Muzzling Free Speech
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Nineteen U.S. senators are working to destroy free speech and silence dissent, defying the Constitution they swore to defend and uphold. Senators Harry Reid, Tim Kaine, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and fifteen other Democrats took to the Senate floor last month to demonize their 'enemies list' of fossil fuel companies, think tanks and journalists for having the temerity to disagree with their views. They are also proposing a Congressional Resolution to formally disapprove of the actions of those who disagree with them.

Climate change happens to be the subject of their action, but the topic is irrelevant.

As President Harry Truman, himself a Democrat, said, "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

That path of repressive measures has already been blazed. Seventeen attorneys general representing fifteen states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands formed "AGs United for Clean Power" and are threatening legal action and huge fines against anyone who declines to believe in a scientific theory which remains in dispute among respected scientists.

The Daily Signal reports, "This comes on top of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitting that the Justice Department is discussing the possibility of pursing civil actions against climate change deniers, and that she has already referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which federal law enforcement could take action."
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Couple in China swallowed by giant sinkhole found alive

Kara O'Neill
The Mirror, UK
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:34 UTC
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© MirrorThe pair were stood talking by a van when the giant chasm appeared.
Witnesses offered assistance to the man and woman who suddenly dropped into the ground when the huge chasm opened up

The terrifying moment a couple were sucked into a giant sinkhole has been caught on camera.

Dramatic CCTV footage captured the moment a man and a woman fell into the gaping chasm as they stood in a car park.

The pair were reportedly discussing business matters next a silver van and could do nothing as they suddenly dropped into the ground when the sinkhole opened up and swallowed them.

The incident reportedly occurred in the township of Yonghe, which is in Anyang County of Central China's Henan Province, and was witnessed by several nearby residents.

The victims were talking outside the local Yonghe clinic when they fell into the ground and were amazingly found alive at the bottom pit.

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Truck falls into sinkhole in Sandwich, Massachusetts


CapeCod.com
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:31 UTC
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A sinkhole opened up in a Sandwich parking lot Friday morning, trapping a catch-basin cleaning truck.

The pavement gave way in the parking lot of Horizons on Cape Cod Bay near Town Neck Beach around mid-morning.

Reports from the scene indicate the truck was working in the lot when the rear wheels began to sink.

There were no injuries. Crews were on scene late in the morning working to remove the truck and fix the sinkhole.

The parking lot and nearby road remained open. The cause of the sinkhole was not immediately known.
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Massive 35-yard long sinkhole opens in Martins Ferry, Ohio


TriState Update
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:43 UTC
Martins Ferry sinkhole
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A massive sinkhole, 35 yards long, has opened up in Martins Ferry.

One house on North 8th Street is cracking and tilting, and the resident is being urged to move out. Others could be affected, if nearby water lines rupture. Right now the Salvation Army Disaster Relief is there to provide cold drinks and snacks for the workers who have been on the job since early this morning. Martins Ferry Mayor Robert Krajnyak says it's a potential disaster.

"If it goes and pulls those mains with it, we lose 12-inch mains, the north end of town's going to be out of water from that point, all the way up, and it's got the possibility of washing some of these hillsides out and pulling some of these houses down with it, if that would all slip. We've got AEP in because of the tension that the poles have moved a little bit and put on power lines and stuff so it's a hazardous situation right now," said Mayor Krajnyak.

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