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At first Christopher Carpenter was confused when his neighbor knocked on his door Sunday night to ask if he had water in his basement.
"I was asking her, 'Why would you ask me, you know, something like that?'" Carpenter said.
But then he looked outside - and saw water shooting up out of his grass in "about four different places" in the 12400 block of Wentworth.
"It looked like Buckingham Fountain," Carpenter said.
And later, after he called the water department, he said he was standing outside with his sister, daughter, niece and nephew when the west side of Wentworth in front of his home began to cave in. He said "it was like a big boom."
"They all started screaming and yelling and running," Carpenter said. "And it did kind of scare me as well."
Broken water main on King Edward Ave. collapses road
Montreal - A hapless motorist discovered a broken water main in the worst possible way: the road collapsed as he drove over it Monday morning.
The broken main/sinkhole is on King Edward Ave. at Fielding Ave. in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. The road is closed to traffic as city workers have to remove the car before they can get at the pipe.
© Dave Sidaway, The GazetteCity workers attend to a sinkhole that opened up and swallowed a car on Monday morning, Nov. 4, 2013, in Montreal.
The broken main/sinkhole is on King Edward Ave. at Fielding Ave. in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. The road is closed to traffic as city workers have to remove the car before they can get at the pipe.
© Paula CachoA family of four died in this sinkhole in Antiquera, Bohol.
Environment officials said not all of the sinkholes posed dangers to the public as long as no houses were built over them.
In Poblacion Uno village in the capital Tagbilaran City, however, 200 families were asked to leave their homes, as the structures were built on the roof of a sinkhole.
A sinkhole is a vacuum or cavern beneath the ground or topsoil waiting for an occurrence (earthquake or heavy rain) to rupture.
Bohol Gov. Edgar Chatto said a team from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) was assessing the sinkholes to determine which ones posed a threat to the public.
The eight-member team is using a ground-penetrating radar to map the island for sinkholes.
Chatto said the mapping would be completed by the first quarter of 2014 and then the team would decide whether there was need for engineering intervention.
"Don't worry. Bohol is a very safe place to stay," Chatto told reporters on Friday.
In just a couple of weeks we saw a devastating typhoon hit Japan and China, a 'one-in-one-thousand-years' flood hit Colorado, record rainfall in Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, Brazil, and India, fireballs turning night into day over Canada and the US, a powerful tornado in Sao Paulo, a 7.7 earthquake in Pakistan that formed a new island in the ocean, followed just 4 days later by 7.2 in the same region, a 7.0 earthquake in Peru, a daytime fireball in Alabama...these are just some of the highlights from the last week of another crazy month on planet Earth!
Thanks for watching here and stay safe!
© Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New MexicanA water main break Tuesday on the corner of Camino Sierra Vista and Oñate Place. The sink hole is about 20 feet in diameter.
And it left dozens of Santa Fe residents without water, power or a way to get around their neighborhood.
"Oh, look at all the water," said Tanya Frank.
A six-foot deep sinkhole at the intersection of Camino Sierra Vista and Onate left around 50 homes and a hair salon without water.
"I just got that far and I could see the water just gushing. It was just amazing. It was like a nightmare. It was like a sci-fi movie," describes Dolores Martinez.
A 12-inch water main burst, pushing water up to the surface, creating cracks in the pavement, until it gave out.
© JEREMY DESEL / KHOU 11 NEWSA big sinkhole was swallowing cars near the intersection of Richmond and Fountainview in the Galleria
Some drivers mistook the eight-foot-deep hole for a large puddle of water and drove right into it.
Ashley Johnson's 2013 Ford was no match for the sinkhole and one of her wheels got stuck.
"There is a big hole right here. I don't know where this came from," Johnson said.
She was one of the lucky ones because another foot to the left and her car would have sunk.
Brian Muller hit the hole Monday morning before the city put up orange warning cones and barrels.
"I tried to go around the side of it and my car fell in the hole," Muller said. "The water was going over the hole so I did not even know that there was a hole there."
Workers at the restaurant construction site next door pulled Muller's car out. They noticed a big pothole there last Thursday and said they called the city to report it. No one responded.
The weekend downpours then turned the pothole into a sinkhole.
The Public Works Department confirmed it received a phone call about a water main break in the area on Saturday.
Around 1 p.m. Monday, city crews finally closed one lane at the intersection to begin repairs.
They came too late for Muller and Johnson.
"I'm a little more shocked than mad right now. I am mad that my car is, like, probably totaled," Johnson said.
A large sinkhole swallowed up a moving car in Jacksonville, Florida, on Tuesday.
The woman says she was driving through what looked like a water main break and didn't realize how saturated the ground really was. It only took a few seconds for her car to sink below the earth and fill up with water.
The road where it happened is now blocked off while crews investigate.
The woman says she was driving through what looked like a water main break and didn't realize how saturated the ground really was. It only took a few seconds for her car to sink below the earth and fill up with water.
The road where it happened is now blocked off while crews investigate.
Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long said 31-year old Cortis Powelson fell into a sink hole as deep as a tall tree while returning home from deer hunting.
The county's deputy coroner Michael McCart repelled into the hole to reach the body. He said it was sixty to seventy feet deep and only about the size of a car at the top.
McCart, who describes himself as a life long deer hunter in the area, believes the sink hole is newly formed. "With all the rain and everything we've had just in the last month, it looks like it was a very freshly opened sink hole," he said Tuesday. Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in the area in August that took two lives.
The Dead Sea is drying up at a rate of one meter per year causing sinkholes
There are now over 3,000 sinkholes around the Dead Sea on the Israeli side
This compares to 40 in 1990, with the first sinkhole appearing in the 1980s
The Dead Sea is drying up at an incredible rate leaving huge chasms of empty space in its wake.
These chasms appear in the form of large, devastating sinkholes and are increasing in number throughout the region.
Experts claim they are now forming at a rate of nearly one a day, but have no way of knowing when or how they will show up.
Estimates by Moment magazine suggest that, on the Israeli side alone, there are now over 3,000 sinkholes around the Dead Sea.
There are now over 3,000 sinkholes around the Dead Sea on the Israeli side
This compares to 40 in 1990, with the first sinkhole appearing in the 1980s
The Dead Sea is drying up at an incredible rate leaving huge chasms of empty space in its wake.
These chasms appear in the form of large, devastating sinkholes and are increasing in number throughout the region.
Experts claim they are now forming at a rate of nearly one a day, but have no way of knowing when or how they will show up.
The Dead Sea is drying up at an incredible rate leaving huge chasms of empty space in its wake
© Ontario Provincial Police News PortalSault Ste. Marie, ON
FLOODING AND WASHOUTS REPORTED
(Sault Ste. Marie, ON) - Due to the severe thunderstorms earlier this morning, the
Sault Ste. Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police reported several road closures due to flooding and washouts.
A further washout has been reported on Goulais Mission Road at the 2400 block.
