A sinkhole has opened on Arrowood Dr. in Clarksville.
Arrowood Dr. will be closed from the back entrance of Wal-Mart to Jordan Dr. off Purple Heart Parkway until further notice.
Officer Natalie Hall with the Clarksville Police Department says any drivers who go around the barricades in place to enter the blocked roadway will be cited.
"The roadway is blocked off in order to keep those in the immediate area safe from injury and to prevent further damage created by the sinkhole," she said.
A large sinkhole opened on the same stretch of road last September.
Aerial photo by West Virginia National Guard shows the extent of the landslide that’s closed Keystone Drive. Yeager Airport said about a third of the engineered fill beneath its main runway overrun area has collapsed
A worst-case scenario became reality Thursday when a large portion of the Yeager Airport hillside — which began experiencing some disturbing slippage over the weekend — collapsed into the valley along Keystone Drive, destroying at least one house, damaging a church, blocking a creek and forcing the evacuation of dozens of residents.
Now officials are scrambling to mitigate damage as they wait on a man-made mountain to finish its bow to gravity.
"It's a bad situation," said Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper. "This is a very serious event."
Airport officials initially sounded an alarm Wednesday when they evacuated six people from two houses along Keystone Drive as a precaution when a portion of the hillside underneath the main runway's emergency overrun area slipped about 6 feet over the weekend. Most of the overrun area, known officially as the Engineered Material Arresting System, or EMAS area, was built about eight years ago atop an engineered fill containing about 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt. It was the back portion of that area that began shifting significantly over the weekend.
During an emergency airport board meeting Wednesday, airport officials and representatives from the airport's consulting firm Triad Engineering said the chance of a landslide was slight, but they couldn't discount the possibility.
"The likelihood of a catastrophic failure and it being down in those houses or on that church is slight, but if there is a risk, you're talking about people's lives and I could never live with myself if we didn't strongly encourage them (to relocate)," airport executive director Rick Atkinson said at the time.
However, that remote possibility became a stark reality a short time after noon Thursday when about a third of the engineered fill area began collapsing into the valley below.
Jan Arve Ødegård www.tk.no Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:03 UTC
Reindeer killed by avalanche
An animal tragedy in the Oppdals part of Trollheimen, specifically in the area south of Storhornet, was discovered Wednesday afternoon.
Two local residents, Day Jørund Vik and John Bjorndal, wanted to see the extent of the landslide and took a trip inland to the area the same day.
We had heard about it being exceptional and wondered how big it was. We discovered that the animals had been taken and notified the reindeer owner, says Vik Adresseavisen.
The animal tragedy was also featured by a number of other media including local newspapers Opdalingen, Up and NRK Sor-Trondelag.
A busy road in Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County is closed until further notice because of a sinkhole.
Plymouth Road between the Blue Route and Butler Pike is detoured indefinitely while PennDOT assesses how badly a sinkhole has damaged the bridge over Plymouth Creek.
At street level, the 12×3 foot hole takes up the narrow shoulder of the two-lane bridge. But down along the creek bed, exposed utility lines are visible.
Drivers, meanwhile, are being forced to detour to Germantown Pike until PennDOT can assess the damage and repair the bridge.
A section of Fifth Street East outside Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School collapsed late Wednesday night causing a giant sinkhole.
The hole, which took up the entire left lane of Fifth Street, was about the size of a compact car.
Typically, fluctuating temperatures above and below freezing like Cornwall has experienced the last couple of days is extremely hard on water mains.
A Cornwall public works supervisor and roughly a half dozen workers could be seen inspecting a large cavity under the street before a backhoe with a jack hammer was brought in around 1:30 a.m.
Workers could be seen rerouting water in order to make repairs and it's believed that water service in the area wasn't affected.
A section of Fifth Street East from Sydney Street to Amelia Street was closed overnight to traffic.
Adrianne Flores wsmv.com Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:50 UTC
A sinkhole forced soldiers at Fort Campbell to take evasive maneuvers to get around post.
The 20-by-20 hole opened up on Monday on the corner of Wickham Avenue and 101st Road Cole Park Commons.
Geologist Kallina Dunkle with Austin Peay State University believes the snow and ice followed by rain caused the sinkhole.
"Times when we tend to get more rain and especially this year with getting the snow melt on top of the rain, it's going to be more likely," Dunkle said.
Dunkle said sinkholes are fairly common in Tennessee, particularly in Clarksville where there is a lot of limestone. Dozens of sinkholes have opened up on Austin Peay's campus over the past decade.
A landslide which has been happening for several days disrupted traffic on a section of the road Cetinje-Budva. This is one of the most frequent roads in Montenegro and the shortest route from the capital Podgorica to cities on the coast. The copious rains initiated the landslide and the road has already dropped more than five meters. Reconstruction is not possible to begin until the landslide completely stops. In the best of circumstances, remediation is expected by the beginning of the summer tourist season. In the meantime, it is possible to use alternative paths that are 50 kilometers longer than the damaged route.
Excessive rainfalls have initiated the landslide which destroyed the main road in the village Markovići. In the part of the road that the landslides occur, 100 meters of asphalt have been plunged and opened up cracks several meters deep. Every day the landslide is getting larger and larger, and this morning the old road section was moved several dozen meters from its original location.
Dramatic videos have emerged of a sinkhole forming in the city of Solikamskiy, Russia.
The footage, shot earlier this year by a resident, captures images of the huge hole in the ground only a few meters away from houses.
According to the filmer the 100 metre deep sinkhole formed after a Sylvinite ore colliery was flooded in November 2014.
According to the filmer - locals now fear that a neighbouring pit, which is connected to the collapsed one, will get flooded too and cave in right under their houses.
The filmer says locals think that the Russian authorities are hiding the risks of sinkholes in the region and allegedly say that the pit is stable and does not increase.
A sinkhole the size of a wheel caused traffic to slow down in Jalan Maarof, heading to Bangsar. The wheel of a car also got stuck in it.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall's (DBKL) Civil Engineering and Drainage Department director Tan Keng Chok said the hole appeared after Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) employees were dragging an underground high tension cable to supply power for a nearby Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn Bhd construction site.
"The hole appeared after a 33kv cable was pulled to lay supply for the MRT construction in Jalan Damansara," Tan said, when contacted by The Rakyat Post today.
Comment: Yeah, right. It's the cable!
Adding that TNB had admitted its fault, Tan said repairs would be conducted on the road tonight.
An image of the hole was uploaded onto biker group Silaturrahim Brotherhood spokesman Azlan Sani Zawawi @ Lando Zawawi's Facebook page.
Lando, who regularly conducts road repair works on potholes and sinkholes and is part of the Kuala Lumpur City Hall's (DBKL) WhatsApp group, uploaded images of his conversation in the group, calling on the authorities to take swift action.
The image of the sinkhole was also uploaded on to Friends of BN's Twitter page.
Comment: The earth is opening up! There have been 25 sinkholes in the past month.