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Man barely escapes as car plunges into Washington sinkhole


KGW.com
Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:11 UTC

A man got out of his car just before it fell into a huge sinkhole in the middle of a La Center road early Saturday.

Just before 2 a.m., 47-year-old James Sandvik of La Center was driving down Northeast Charity Road when his car got stuck on the edge of a ravine that was caused by a wash out.

Sandvik got out of the car with minor injuries just before it plunged over the edge. The car then washed more than 1000 feet away as water continued to pour through a broken pipe caused by a plugged colvert, said Sgt. Alex Schoening with the Clark County Sheriff's Office.

The hole is at the 31000 block of NE Charity road, which connects to Lockwood Creek Road and runs south to Battle Ground. Traffic is detoured three miles and the road is expected to be closed for a long time.

Authorities urge drivers to avoid the area if possible.
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Sinkhole nearly swallows truck in San Francisco

Andrew Dudley
haighteration.com
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:06 UTC
A truck got stuck in a sinkhole on Waller Street between Scott and Divisadero this afternoon, and the street is now closed to traffic.

As of 4:30pm, the rear section of the Vac-Con truck was submerged under street level, while a giant crane worked to free the truck from its predicament. It didn't appear that anyone was hurt in the incident.

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Authorities can't explain sinkholes one year after they appeared in Georgetown, South Carolina

Drew Smith
WBTW News13
Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:10 UTC

Comment: The planet appears to be literally opening up as it creaks and groans.

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Sinkhole suddenly opens up to swallow moving car in Cosmopolis, Washington


KXRO Newsradio
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:41 UTC
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Power outages, standing water, broken limbs, and at least one sinkhole.

A driver in Cosmopolis was in for a surprise as they drove towards the hill on C Street. Right as they passed the entrance to Mill Creek Park, they fell into a hole in the road.

Mayor Vickie Raines says that the culvert underneath C Street collapsed and tried to swallow the vehicle.

The road to the hill has been blocked to traffic as crews wait out the storm and prepare to assess the damage.
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Giant Assumption Parish sinkhole in Louisiana swallows another large chunk of land


WAFB
Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:57 UTC
    • The massive sinkhole plaguing south Louisiana continues to grow, as it has "eaten" another large section of land.

    The Assumption Parish Police Jury reported the latest slough in on its blog Tuesday evening.

    Officials stated a 20 feet by 80 feet chunk located on the east side of the sinkhole collapsed.

    It had been several weeks since the giant sinkhole had claimed more land.

    About 500 square feet of earth was lost on Oct. 9.
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    Sharp tremor recorded by USGS monitors at the site of the giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish

    Amber Stegall
    WAFB.com
    Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:33 UTC
    A sharp tremor was recorded by USGS monitors just after 9 p.m. Wednesday at the site of the giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish. The giant sinkhole appeared in August near the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou areas.The Assumption Parish Police Jury says the tremor was large enough that the body wave phases could easily be identified. A body wave travels through the interior of the earth.
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    The preliminary location of the tremor was just SE of Oxy #3 cavern at a depth of 500m. There is no additional information specific to this seismic activity at this time. The sinkhole is now about four acres in size. Residents were forced from their homes on August third, two months after the bayous started bubbling. They are still evacuated from their homes.

    Comment: Mysterious Louisiana Sinkhole Raises Concerns of Explosions and Radiation
    Louisiana Probes Cause of Massive Bayou Sinkhole
    Methane explosion fears rise in sinkhole-ravaged Louisiana town
    Sinkhole engineer: Little can be done if cavern is fractured

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    Methane explosion fears rise in sinkhole-ravaged Louisiana town

    Stuart Smith
    The Stuart Smith Blog
    Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
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    The people of Bayou Corne have been through a lot. It started this summer when residents of the small bayou community about 70 miles west of New Orleans began feeling tremors and reporting foul odors. Then in August, a large sinkhole - near the site of a cavern that has long been mined by the Texas Brine Co. - threatened the town and forced evacuations. And the news keeps getting worse: Now officials are warning the residents of a powerful buildup of methane gas under Bayou Corne that could cause a massive explosion:
    An as-yet undetermined amount of natural gas is trapped in the aquifer underneath the Bayou Corne community, state and parish officials have said.

    The area has been rattled by earth tremors, has waterways with gas bubbling to the surface, and is in the vicinity of a 4-acre sinkhole south of La. 70 that has grown larger since its emergence Aug. 3. Bayou Corne's 150 households have been evacuated since the sinkhole appeared just off the edge of the Napoleonville Dome, a 1-mile-by-3-mile underground salt deposit.
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    More land at sinkhole falls in

    David J. Mitchell
    The Advocate
    Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:15 UTC
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    A 1,500-square-foot section of earth caved in from the edge of a slurry-filled sinkhole near Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish on Tuesday night, pulling down with it several trees and part of an access road, officials said Wednesday.

    The road was built as a place for parking excavators that will be used in the pending cleanup of the sinkhole, which emerged Aug. 3 in swamps between the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou areas on property owned by Texas Brine Co., parish officials said in a blog post.

    The sinkhole - filled with a liquid mixture of brine, mud, vegetative matter and other substances - has forced the evacuation of residents in 150 households in the two communities.

    Comment: What are the officials in Louisiana hiding? This recent video gives an in depth discussion of the sinkhole's recent expansion, earthquakes increasing in the area, and the bubbling, 'radioactive' water of this potentially massive disaster. The Emergency Update video below is from The Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle.



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    Over two months later, Brooklyn sinkhole grows to 70 foot deep cavity, outgassing horrible smell that makes residents sick


    CBS New York
    Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:12 UTC
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    © CBS 2Since June 28, residents have dealt with a deteriorating situation on 92nd Street in Bay Ridge. The smell now coming out of the 70-foot deep sinkhole is so bad that residents are becoming ill.
    Since June 28 The Situation Has Deteriorated On 92nd Street; Residents Fume; Repair work not expected to finish until end of October

    It's gone from bad to worse. A massive sinkhole has turned from traffic nightmare to sickening situation in Brooklyn. A sewer main broke more than two months ago in Bay Ridge, creating a huge hole in the street.

    And as CBS 2's Dave Carlin reported Friday night, the stench has now become a major problem.

    Misery is how 92nd Street residents describe the slow, tedious work on the enormous sinkhole, which first formed back on June 28 and is still not close to being repaired.

    Workers have been going down more than 70 feet to fix a busted 110-year-old sewer pipe. The hole has unleashed a non-stop sickening smell.
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    Sinkhole in parking lot swallows car in North Carolina


    ABC News
    Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00 UTC

    A Duke University law student driving by a fast food restaurant near campus was slowed to a halt Tuesday when his car fell into a sinkhole.

    Rajiv Thairani, 27, from San Francisco, was driving his girlfriend's 2001 Honda Prelude in an empty lot next to a Bojangles restaurant in Durham, N.C., around 2 p.m. when he struck the sinkhole.

    "I was going to use the lot to turn around so I just turned into it and my car is relatively low to the ground and the hole wasn't visible from the street," Thairani told ABCNews.com. "My initial reaction was that the ground underneath me had given way, like it had collapsed."

    Thairani fell into an eight-foot deep sinkhole. The hole had appeared in the ground the day before but had not been properly marked off, according to Thairani.
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