Earth Changes
Since it had rained overnight, the driver said he saw water on a road in Denver and thought it was just a puddle. The car ended up head-first in a six-foot-deep sinkhole.
The driver, who works for Uber, did not have any passengers with him at the time. He was able to get out of the car on the passenger side.
A tow truck pulled the car out and hauled it away.
Utility crews said the sinkhole was caused by a rupture in a 12-inch water main. A dozen nearby homes lost water due to the rupture and crews were working to replace the broken section of pipe.

Locals gather to watch rescue operation in Bellana village in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka, Friday.
According to a Reuters report, at least five landslides have been reported in Kaluthara, which is the worst-hit district on the west coast of the Lankan island. This is the time of the year when the island nation witnesses highest rainfall, from the month of May to September.
The province of Corrientes has lost an incredible 2.5 million hectares to the flooding with the northern parts of the province being the most affected.
More than 6 months rain has fallen in the area in the last two weeks.
It is estimated that there are 1.5 million heads of cattle throughout the affected region.
Manuel Garcia Olano, Secretary of Agriculture of Corrientes, was able to fly over the area and told reporters that "the situation is devastating.

A cow stands amid houses that burned in wildfires in the Siberian settlement of Strelka, on the bank of the Angara River in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, on Thursday.
Two people were found dead in the town of Kansk in Russia's Siberian Krasnoyarsk region, according to investigators in the region, who said a fire spread in the area due to hot weather and strong wind.
The victims, a man and a woman, had been exposed to heat and fire in the town where 52 homes burned down, the Krasnoyarsk branch of the Investigative Committee said in a statement, adding that a probe was launched into possible negligence.

Washington State Parks rangers will be leaving this dead whale to decay on the beach near Twin Harbors State Park south of Westport after it washed ashore Tuesday.
Washington State Parks rangers will be leaving a dead gray whale to decay on the beach near Twin Harbors State Park after it washed ashore Tuesday.
Instead of blowing it up, like the Oregonians fatefully tried back in the 1970s.
"Visitors can expect strong, unpleasant smells as the carcass rots over the summer months," the State Parks statement stated, in a wild understatement.
The 30-foot-long juvenile female, believed to be 1 to 2 years old, was healthy when it died of a traumatic injury, the statement said.
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Earthquakes were found to be the largest hazard, with the number of people potentially affected jumping from 1.4 billion in 1975 to 2.7 billion in 2015. Now, they say one in three people is exposed to the risk of earthquakes.
In the last few decades, the risk has dramatically increased; the number of people living in seismic areas, for example, has increased by 93 percent in just 40 years.
The findings, compiled in the Atlas of the Human Planet 2017, reveal the global exposure to natural disasters has doubled since 1975, largely as a result of population growth and development.
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Thousands of stinging bees descended on Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, causing a hive of activity among shoppers
The enormous cloud of flying insects caused a hive of activity among shoppers who were forced to run for cover.
Motorists driving through Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, said they were unable to see because of the swarm of bees.
Thousands of the stinging insects could be seen crawling across shop fronts.
Holly Donaldson, 26, who works at Savills estate agents, said: 'It was quite terrifying.
'My boss said "look out the window" and then we just ran for the keys to lock the windows.
Comment: A similar event happened in nearby London just over a week ago, see: Massive bee swarm descends on London during rush hour











Comment: Increasingly unstable weather patterns may be assisting the formation of bizarre cloud patterns observed around the world recently. Factors which may contribute to these 'strange skies' are possible comet dust loading and changes in the layers of the atmosphere. See also: