
Sinkhole in southeast Houston
Talk about a sinking feeling! Homeowners in southeast Houston are terrified after finding a huge sinkhole in their back yard.
It's 20 feet deep and 30 feet wide and no one knew the sinkhole was here until a couple of days ago.
Homeowner Dianne Walker noticed it while her brother was doing yard work.
"He said, 'Come here. There's a hole over here,'" said Walker. "I said, 'OK', no, there is a big whole over there."
The hole is already eroding away the fence line, causing a power pole to lean and even more troubling for Walker, the corner of her shed is now hanging over the hole.
"So at any time, it could collapse and that didn't just happen," she said.
Walker says she called Houston Public Works on Thursday about the sinkhole. She says so far, only inspectors have come, but no workers.