The hole along the shoulder is near the intersection of Biesecker Road in Thomasville. PennDOT said it was caused by water runoff.
Crews are working on repairs..
Traffic cones are set up to keep vehicles away.
Sinkholes
The hole along the shoulder is near the intersection of Biesecker Road in Thomasville. PennDOT said it was caused by water runoff.
Crews are working on repairs..
Traffic cones are set up to keep vehicles away.
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While information in English is scarce at this early time, one report speculates the cause could be due to to water erosion of the soil or rock below.
It remains to be seen what the true cause of this particular sinkhole is but a hole of this size is not normal and to attribute its appearance solely to water erosion is most likely misleading. Because with volcanoes, earthquakes, sinkholes, fissures, landslides and a variety of other unusual and major earth movement phenomena on the increase, it would seem there are other factors at play not yet being considered.
The sinkhole is in the 800 block of South Market Street.
A utility pole sank and needed to be stabilized, and a home driveway is completely cut off from the roadway.
South Market is closed between East Elmwood Avenue and Shepherdstown Road and could remain shut down for a while because the other side of the road started buckling in the afternoon.
Suez Water said the severity of the break required other utilities to repair lines. Several homes and businesses last water service and are under a boil water advisory.
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Sheridan police tweeted that the driver was OK and shared a photo showing the vehicle submerged in water 15 feet down.
Police say the woman was able to climb out before the SUV fell.
The sinkhole occurred on Oxford Avenue at the intersection of Natches Court amid a drenching thunderstorm. Police say the rain impacted a pipe below the pavement which gave way.
Witness Tye Adams grabbed his phone and took video just as the SUV began to sink.
The CCTV video shows an elderly man falling into a dark abyss as he walks along the road.
Passersby go to check on him and try to pull him out.
According to reports, the road had not been built well after construction last year and the rain was too much for it to bear.
The man was sent to hospital. He sustained no lasting injuries.
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The road began to collapse around the bus in Swineshead
The Brylaine bus was transporting children home from Boston Grammar School and the town's High School at around 4.30pm on Wednesday, July 11.
As the bus pulled in to drop a student off in High Green Road, Swineshead, its back end began to sink as the road began to collapse.
Brylaine operations director Malcolm Wheatley said the only thing stopping the bus from falling further into the deep 6ft hole was the vehicle's frame.
Comment: Sinkholes are often blamed on excess rainfall, broken pipes, local mining tunnels or recent roadworks and yes, according to the article this road has been repaired multiple times, but all that tells us is that the ground underneath it is highly unstable. Also, the UK has seen over 50 days without rain and which has led to unprecedented wildfires. So what's causing this massive increase in sinkholes around the world?
For more, see:
- Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth
- Scientists predict upsurge in major earthquakes for 2018 due to slowdown in Earth's rotation
- 8 dead as massive sinkhole swallows eight-lane road in Foshan, China (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
- GARGANTUAN sinkhole swallows several cars and building is evacuated in Rome (VIDEO)
- Major road blocked after large sinkhole appears on seafront in Devon, England
The landslide was mapped with drones, Icelandic Coast Guard airplane and satellites.
Comment: These massive landslides happening all over the world do seem to be connected to torrential rainfall, but there appear to be other factors to consider:
- Monster cracks appear in the ground after landslide and heavy rains destroy over 100 buildings in Cusco, Peru (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
- 8 dead as massive sinkhole swallows eight-lane road in Foshan, China (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
- "Earth splits in two" - Huge fissures appears in the ground in Saudi Arabia (VIDEO)
- GARGANTUAN sinkhole swallows several cars and building is evacuated in Rome (VIDEO)
- Lava fountains, tremors, fissures, toxic fumes: Hawaii braces itself as Kilauea boils over in unusual outburst
- More cracks reported in Kenya as Africa's geographical divide deepens
- 10km earth crack emerges on Elgeyo escarpment, Kenya
- Huge fissures tear through homes and infrastructure after heavy rains in Uganda
- Torrential rain, floods and landslides leave at least 126 dead in Japan; highest death toll caused by rainfall in over three decades (Update)
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The Renville County Sheriff's Office says the sinkhole was formed after a culvert beneath the township road was washed out.
The driver wasn't hurt, thanks to his seat belt and the car's airbag.
Candace Leopold, the driver's grandmother, says the teen was on his way to work at a farm north of Redwood Falls. After falling into the sinkhole, the teen escaped by climbing out of the car's back window, she said.
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Featured image: Huge sinkhole opens in Lahore, Pakistan after record-breaking rains flood the city on July 3, 2018.
Featured image: Huge sinkhole opens in Lahore, Pakistan after record-breaking rains flood the city on July 3, 2018.
The city of Lahore, capital of Punjab Province, received a total of 252 mm (9.9 inches) of rain in 24 hours on Monday and Tuesday, breaking the previous daily rainfall record set in 1980.
Floodwaters left many many people were stranded in their homes and damaged over 200 electricity feeders across the city, leaving much of it without power.
The storm also disrupted air and land traffic, as major roads turned into pools.
Comment: Extreme weather around the world is occurring with increasing frequency and humanity is entirely unprepared:
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Once in a century snow hits South Africa & ancient Kalahari desert canal system
- Iran's drought is a "global trend" but Iranian general thinks Israeli weather modification is to blame
- India records 50% increase in deaths caused by lightning during the 2006 - 2015 decade compared to the one prior
- 3 killed by flood, landslide in Assam, India - 370 villages under water
Comment: As demonstrated in the video below, with the dramatic increase in activity all around the world of earthquakes, sinkholes and general instability of the earth beneath our feet, one would do well to exercise extreme caution in particularly risky areas. Worryingly, Yellowstone has shown a surge in activity recently: