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2 sinkholes open up at golf course in The Villages, Florida


Villages-News
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:54 UTC
A large sinkhole was discovered at Glenview Championship Golf Course.
A large sinkhole was discovered at Glenview Championship Golf Course.
Villagers who live near the Glenview Championship Golf Course woke up Friday morning to find a very large, deep sinkhole in their backyard.

Golf course personnel closed six holes and roped off an area behind homes in the 3300 block of Richmond Drive in the Village of Belle Aire. There is said to be a second sinkhole in a nearby retention pond.

Sam Wartinbee of District Property Management on Friday said drought followed by sudden, heavy rain make conditions ripe for sinkholes to occur.
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Sinkhole opens up in front of car in Ocala, Florida

Matt Petrillo
Click Orlando
Sat, 10 Jun 2017 11:42 UTC
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A man and woman somehow managed to escape their car after they realized a sinkhole opened in front of them in Ocala.

The sinkhole opened near the intersection of Southwest 27th Avenue and State Road 200, also known as College Road, at the Gateway Plaza.

Video shows a car teetering on the edge of the 25 foot by 25 foot hole in a Checker's restaurant parking lot.

Cell phone video shows a car teetering on the edge of a sinkhole in #Ocala. A couple somehow managed to escape https://t.co/zC3KZWjmzz pic.twitter.com/kdsDPP7uoQ— Matt Petrillo (@MattPetrillo) June 11, 2017
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Massive sinkhole opens up on road and engulfs tree and minivan in Nantong, China

Luke Barnes
Daily Mail
Sun, 11 Jun 2017 21:02 UTC
No one was hurt in the accident, and the cause of the sinkhole is still being investigated
No one was hurt in the accident, and the cause of the sinkhole is still being investigated
A massive sinkhole has appeared on a street in eastern China, sending a minivan and a tree tumbling in.

The incident occurred in the city of Nantong, Jiangsu Province on Saturday, after heavy rains in the region.

Video captured the event unfolding, as the minivan was sent tumbling into the ground.

The sinkhole then continued to expand, making a large tree fall in.

Chunks of pavement gave way, and a underground water pipe also burst.

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Car plunges into sinkhole on busy road in Brazil

Simon Holmes
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 19:08 UTC
Sinkhole in Brazil
This is the moment a 4X4 is nearly consumed by a giant sinkhole in the middle of a road.

A crowd gathers around the stricken vehicle which lay front first into the ground as its alarm whirls in the background.

Around 20 seconds into the clip the car falls further into the ground and nearly tilts at a 90 degree angle, facing into the dark core of the planet.

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Father and son are killed after being sucked into flaming sinkhole in Jharkhand, India

Julian Robinson
Daily Mail
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:34 UTC
A 21-strong rescue team arrived at the scene and dug an underground passage to try and get to the father and son
A 21-strong rescue team arrived at the scene and dug an underground passage to try and get to the father and son
A father and son have been burned alive after being sucked into a flaming sink hole that has been blazing for more than 100 years in India.

Teenager Rahim Khan was sweeping an area in front of his shop in the town of Jharia, in the country's north eastern Jharkhand province when he was sucked into a crater which opened up in the road.

His desperate father, Bablu Khan, 40, saw him slip into the hole before he too was killed after being buried under debris as he tried to save the 14-year-old.

Pictures show smoke coming from the burning sink hole which was caused by fires that have raged underground in the area for decades.
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30-ft wide, 30-ft deep sinkhole collapses road in Newberry, Florida

Deborah Strange
The Gainesville Sun
Wed, 31 May 2017 21:09 UTC
Newberry, FL sinkhole
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A sinkhole opened in Newberry along Newberry Road just west of Northwest 266th Street, worsened by a burst water line.

Alachua County sheriff's deputies responded and were guiding morning commuters slowly through the area.

Newberry City Manager Mike New said the 3 inches of rain the city got Tuesday could have washed out soil supporting a waterline that subsequently sagged and ruptured, washing out even more soil and deepening the hole.

When deputies were called about 6:20 a.m. Wednesday, the sinkhole was about 30 feet wide and 30 feet deep near the roadway. Eventually, a portion of the road collapsed after the soil supporting it caved in.
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Car falls into sinkhole in El Cajon, California

Jermaine Ong
10news.com
Tue, 30 May 2017 13:25 UTC
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A car fell into a sinkhole that formed Tuesday morning on Olde Highway 80 in the El Cajon area.

Just after 4 a.m., crews responded to a water main break that caused a sinkhole on the roadway at Pecan Park Lane.

Crews arrived to find an Uber vehicle had partially fallen into the hole, but the driver and his passenger climbed out of a window as water began pouring into the car.

Tasha Mills said she got the scary early morning call from her husband, who was working his second job driving overnight for Uber.

"I was sleeping and I got a phone call. It scared us pretty bad, so we rushed out here," she told 10News.
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Massive sinkhole appears on a ring road in Changchun, China


Daily Mail
Fri, 26 May 2017 14:00 UTC
A massive sinkhole appeared on a ring road in Jilin city of northeast China this morning
A massive sinkhole appeared on a ring road in Jilin city of northeast China
A massive sinkhole appeared on a ring road in northeastern China today.

The cause of the sinkhole was unknown, though there has been construction in the area recently.

Photos show the sheer size of the giant sinkhole which has caused traffic chaos in Changchun city.

The incident took place near Weixing Square in Changchun city, Jilin Province, stated Huanqiu.com, an affiliation to People's Daily China.

Changchun county council sent a repair team to the site after getting reports of the sinkhole from onlookers during the early hours of this morning.
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Man accidentally drives car into sinkhole in Denver, Colorado

Kurt Sevits
wkbw.com
Fri, 26 May 2017 12:47 UTC
Sinkhole at 13th and Tennyson.
Sinkhole at 13th and Tennyson.
A man drove his car directly into a sinkhole caused by a broken water main early Friday.

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.
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Huge sinkhole swallows man after cesspool collapse on Long Island, New York


nbcnewyork.com
Wed, 24 May 2017 18:10 UTC
The man disappeared into the dirt and debris of the cesspool according to reports
The man disappeared into the dirt and debris of the cesspool according to reports
A man is dead after a cesspool collapsed in the Long Island town of Huntington Wednesday, spawning a gigantic sinkhole that swallowed him alive, authorities said.

Crews were still filling in the massive sinkhole — wider than two cars — on Wednesday night after a frantic, hours-long rescue effort involving dozens of firefighters, police officers and workers failed to save the man.

"It's horrible, my heart goes out to the men," Regina Sineno said.

Police say a crew was installing the cesspool at a Beech Place home when it collapsed shortly before 1 p.m., leaving a gaping hole that consumed the entire front yard and ate the top half of the driveway.

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