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Sinkholes close traffic in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Pamela Sroka-Holzmann
Lehigh Valley Live
Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:52 UTC
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© Pamela Sroka-Holzmann / LehighValleyLive.comA large sinkhole opened up April 11, 2015 on Johnston Drive in Bethlehem.
Public works, water and sewer crews plan to spend most of this week repairing a significant sinkhole on Johnston Drive between Center and Linden streets in Bethlehem.

Mike Alkhal, city public works director, said a teenager noticed the sinkhole in the westbound lane Saturday and called 911. Neighbors say the teenager directed traffic around the sinkhole.

The sinkhole is in front of a vacant home for sale in the 400 block of Johnston Drive. The home has a smaller sinkhole in front of its front steps. Another small sinkhole is on a neighboring property owned by Nancy Sigley. The entire perimeter of all three sinkholes is blocked off with yellow tape.

Comment: See also:
  • Sinkhole opens up in Longview, Texas - closes streets
  • Door to Hell: Blazing sinkhole opens in Chinese village
  • Colorado: Sinkhole closes county road


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Sinkhole opens up in Longview, Texas - closes streets

Jimmy Isaac
KYTX CBS 19
Sat, 11 Apr 2015 14:36 UTC
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A sinkhole on one of Longview busiest roads is delaying traffic.

The 2 1/2 foot wide, 3 foot deep hole is in the outside northbound lane of the 1600 block of Judson Road, between Iris Circle and Montclair Street. Longview police and street crews are on the scene, barricading the lane and waiting to fix the problem.

Judson Road handles more than 17,000 cars a day.

Comment: More than 70 sinkholes have opened up around the globe in just the past week, including one that locals said 'leads straight to hell'.



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Door To Hell: Blazing sinkhole opens in Chinese village


RT
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 05:44 UTC

A blazing sinkhole in northwest China terrified locals, attracting tourists as well as researchers and prompting questions about its origin. The temperature on top of the burning crater was estimated to be 792 degrees Celsius (1,457 degrees Fahrenheit).

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© GooNooNewsScreenshot from YouTube user GooNooNews
Due to the deadly heat, scientists have been unable to come close enough to the crater to measure how deep it really is. Located in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, near Urumqi, in northwest China, the sinkhole is 0.9 meters (3 feet) wide.

It is hot enough to light up branches and other objects placed next to it. Various tourist videos show people setting things on fire.

Locals have dubbed it a "gateway to hell." Many have told the Chinese media that the ground in the area has been hot for some time now.

There is no volcanic activity in the region, which led scientists from the Xinjiang Meitian Geological Bureau to believe that the sinkhole was created out of coal seam spontaneously combusting.

The area was reportedly used for mining in the 1970s, China Central TV cited a supervisor from Xinjiang Meitian Fire Engineering Bureau, Chen Long, as saying, the Daily Mail reported.

Comment: Mining companies usually neglect protecting the environment for financial reasons. It's cheap to leave Nature dying after taking all mineral resources. The first thing you notice is dust in the air causing disease in humans and animals. Water aquifers get depleted, because the mine pumps too much water to clean the coal and that results in the groundwater and Artesian wells drying out.
Coal-fired power plants, which produce almost half of the country's electricity, have significant impacts on water quantity and quality in the United States. Water is used to extract, wash, and sometimes transport the coal; to cool the steam used to make electricity in the power plant; and to control pollution from the plant. The acts of mining and burning coal, as well as dealing with the waste, also can have major effects on water quality


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Colorado: Sinkhole closes county road

John Stroud
Post Independent
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 20:48 UTC
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© WOIOPart of yet another road collapsing into a sinkhole.
A sinkhole that developed in a problem area along Garfield County Road 109 over the past couple of days has the road down to one lane currently, and will force a full closure while county crews assess the situation.

According to county Road and Bridge Department officials, the new sinkhole is in an area near Aspen Glen that is known for movement and has required quite a bit of fill work over the years.

County Road 109 runs between the Thompson Creek Road (CR 108) and the Ironbridge/West Bank area north of Carbondale.

Comment: For more on sinkholes and why they're now so common and widespread, check out SOTT Radio's interview with the authors of Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection:

  • Earth Changes in an Electric Universe: Is climate change really man-made?


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Sinkhole closes street in Michigan


The Times Herald
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 20:43 UTC
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© Beth LeBlanc / Times HeraldSinkhole closes yet another street
A portion of Minnie Street in Port Huron Township is closed because of a sinkhole.

The street will be closed between 25th and 26th streets through Friday for repairs, according to Kirk Weston, managing director for St. Clair County Road Commission.

Weston said the sinkhole developed because of a failed storm drain.

Comment: Also see:

  • Sinkholes continue to plague Missippi town
  • New Florida sinkhole in same Florida town - 3rd sinkhole in Florida in a month
  • Sinkhole opens up on Santa Cruz coast, California


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Sinkhole opens up in New Castle, Pennsylvania

David Burcham
New Castle News
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 20:37 UTC
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A sinkhole big enough to swallow a tire appeared yesterday morning on the city's east side.

James Penwell of Wolfe Street made the discovery while walking home around 9:30 a.m. The hole formed inside the utility cut at the intersection of Florence and Epworth streets.

"I almost stepped into it," said Penwell, who said he didn't notice the hole being there when he walked past 45 minutes earlier.

Comment: Also see: Sinkholes continue to plague Mississippi town

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Sinkholes continue to plague Mississippi town

Brad Broders
Local Mephis
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:17 UTC
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A DeSoto County subdivision is dealing with a hole in the ground...again.

Local 24 News first told you about the sinkhole problem in the Ravenwood subdivision in 2013. At that time, crews filled were busy filling one measuring four feet wide and four feet deep.

Monday, a year and a half later, frustrated neighbors are dealing with another one.

Comment: Sinkholes may break water lines, but most are not actually caused by them. Many are more likely caused by the slowing down of the earth due to the increase of electrically charged cometary dust surrounding the planet, and the decrease in solar activity. This leads to the planet literally "opening up" as it becomes ever slightly deformed. For more info, check out the book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection:
Looking back through reports over the last ten years, it seems that the appearance of new sinkholes accelerated in 2007 when a giant sinkhole opned up in Guatemala City. A second monster hole appeared in 2010.

The frequency of sinkholes over the last three or four years has increased to the point that people are being unexpectedly 'swallowed' and even killed in urban areas. Homes and vehicles have also been gobbled up in ever-larger numbers.

[...] New sinkholes have increased not only in number, but in severity too. If ten years ago you were told that a sinkhole had literally swallowed human beings alive, you would probably have dismissed it as the plot from a bad horror movie. Well, that is today's reality. In the last few years, over 20 individuals have experienced 'death by sinkhole'.

Since none of the invoked causes can explain the sudden appearance of so many new sinkholes in so many different locations, we're left to consider that some new factor must underpin the sharp increase. It makes us wonder if the 'opening up' of the Earth is not this new factor.


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Sinkhole opens beneath garbage truck in East Hampton, New York

T.E. McMorrow
The East Hampton Star
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:59 UTC
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© T.E. McMorrow Garbage truck in sinkhole.
While many drivers in East Hampton Town have been angered by the recent blight of large potholes along Montauk Highway from Napeague to the Lighthouse, that have been destroying tires and tire rims, they have nothing on the sinkhole that opened up on Montauk Main Street Monday morning.

"We were picking up the garbage," Tim Schellinger, the driver of an East Hampton Town Department of Parks and Recreation garbage truck, said as he stood on the side of the road waiting for assistance, his truck mired in an asphalt pit. He and a co-worker were emptying trashcans after a busy holiday weekend on the north side of Main Street, between Essex and South Edison Streets. They had pulled over by a pail west of Martell's Stationary.
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Woman falls into sinkhole in St. Louis, Missouri

Mike Rush
ksdk.com
Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:55 UTC
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© KSDKA South City woman fell into a sink hole in front of her house a month after reporting it to the city.
Nearly a week after a south St. Louis woman reported falling into a sinkhole to the city, she's wondering why it's still there.

So she contacted Five on Your Side's Mike Rush.

Other than a pinky finger, 63-year-old June LaBarbera has gone all her life without a broken bone. Until now.

"The humerus bone goes up here... is broken from that collar bone up there," LaBarbera points out.

Her bone and her record were broken by a hole about a foot across and three feet deep that developed in her front yard at the curb on Odell Street.

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Sinkhole in South Africa swallows truck, injures driver


Road Safety
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:14 UTC
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A man sustained several injuries this morning when his Nissan Champ Bakkie fell into a sink hole on Voortrekker Road and Quality Street in Durban.

Shortly before 06:00 paramedics were dispatched to the incident. When they arrived on the scene they found the bakkie with only its rear on the tarmac. Bystanders pointed paramedics into the direction of where a man was standing. The driver of the vehicle managed to get out of his vehicle before paramedics arrived on the scene.

It is understood that the man was on his way to work when his vehicle fell into the hole. According to bystanders on the scene the sink hole developed late yesterday afternoon and was not properly cordoned off. It appeared as if it filled with water during the night making it difficult to see.

Comment: Sinkholes have been making life miserable for drivers across the world:
  • Sinkhole shuts down Roanoke City roadway in Virginia
  • Car crashes into sinkhole in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Highway shut down after sinkhole opens up in northern Alberta
  • Truck becomes stuck in sinkhole in Bronx
And it seems that there have been more than 60 sinkholes, covered by SOTT, in just the past month:



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