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British woman in critical condition after she and her car plunge into yet another sudden sinkhole


South Wales Evening Post
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:23 UTC
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Police at the scene of the accident in Caemawr Road, Morriston, Swansea.
A woman is critically ill in hospital after being injured when the ground apparently collapsed from under her car.

Emergency services were called to a house on Caemawr Road in Morriston yesterday morning, and the woman - who is in her 50s - was taken to hospital.

Police have launched an investigating into what happened, and are still waiting to interview her.

It is believed the car at the centre of the probe was parked at the rear of the property when a section of the garden collapsed under it, causing the vehicle to partially fall into a hole injuring her.

A South Wales Police spokesman added: "Emergency services were called to Caemawr Road in Morriston on Wednesday morning following reports that a woman had suffered injuries after being involved in an incident involving a car at the rear of a house.

"The woman, who is in her 50s, has been taken to Morriston Hospital with serious injuries.

"An investigation to establish what happened is underway."

Comment: A rare earthquake also hit south Wales yesterday:

4.1 magnitude earthquake hits south Wales

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Yet another sinkhole opens up in the UK, this time in Southampton

James Franklin
Southern Daily Echo
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:08 UTC
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The one metre wide sinkhold at Southampton Sports Centre
A sinkhole has appeared in a children's play area in Southampton.

Flooding has caused part of the Children's Pleasure Park at the city sports centre to disappear.

There is now a hole about one metre wide and up to four feet deep at the site in Bassett.

While the park remains open, three trampolines have been cordoned off as a safety precaution.

Fred Salter, who runs the park, said the hole first appeared on Friday when the area was covered in six inches of floodwater.

He said: I've never seen anything like this before at the sports centre.

"I am worried that it could happen anywhere around here because there was so much water running down the hole.
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Massive sinkhole almost swallows mini-van in Yonkers, New York


westchester.news12.com
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:50 UTC
A water main break created a sinkhole that nearly entrapped a brand new mini-van
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A massive crater on a Yonkers street almost swallowed a brand new mini-van overnight.


Rafael Rodriguez tells News 12 he parks in front of his home on Mulberry Street all the time. But, Wednesday morning his van was teetering in the air on an angle over a massive hole. He learned later that a water main ruptured underneath the asphalt, which was already weak from snow and ice. "This was no ordinary pothole, it was a water main break that was happening underneath the surface causing the road to just open up...now, I have my car towed with damage, transmission, body damage and everything," says Rodriguez.

DPW crews on the scene say the hole is 5-feet deep, and the pipe burst was most likely caused by the frigid weather.
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Sinkhole swallows car's wheel in Wallington, London

Mike Pyle
Sutton Guardian
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:37 UTC
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A five foot-wide sinkhole has opened up in the middle of a Wallington street.

The hole, which is around three feet deep, opened up and swallowed the wheel of a car in Maldon Road at 9am today.

Police have closed the road between Manor Road and Harcourt Road.

A statement from the police said: "The hole is in the road and is about 5ft wide and 3ft deep. A car had one of its wheels in the hole and the vehicle has now been recovered.

"It is believed the car was being driven at the time the hole opened up. There are no injuries reported. Sutton Council is aware."

Sinkholes have been reported around the country following the recent heavy rains.

The British Geological Survey said the country can expect more holes as the water table recedes following the bad weather.
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The hole, which is around three feet deep, opened up and swallowed the wheel of a car in Maldon Road at 9am.
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UK riddled with sinkholes! Another one opens up, this time in Suffolk


BBC
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:27 UTC
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Workers had to dig down into the hole to remove loose rubble as part of the repair process
A sinkhole, which forced the closure of a main road in the centre of Lowestoft, has been repaired.

The hole, which was about 15ft (5m) long and 8in (20cm) deep, appeared just off the A12 at Station Square.

A section of the road was closed in both directions overnight on Tuesday for investigations.

Catherine Brookes, from the Highways Agency, said while engineers had not found a "definite cause" the void had now been filled in.

The agency closed the A12 in both directions on Tuesday from 20:00 GMT as a safety precaution and traffic through Lowestoft was diverted via the A1117 and Oulton Broad.

The A12 was reopened on Wednesday morning, but Denmark Road remained closed between Station Square and Katwijk Way.
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Vehicle barely avoids sinkhole in Chadron, Nebraska

Kerri Rempp
Rapid City Journal
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:15 UTC
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© Julie PfisterThis vehicle barely avoided a sinkhole on Country Club Road Wednesday morning. The sinkhole is the result of a water main break. The road is closed until further notice
City water crews and county road crews are busy repairing a broken water main south of Chadron this morning.

The busted main created a sinkhole roughly 10 feet across and five feet deep on Country Club Road. The break was discovered early Wednesday morning when a vehicle barely avoided resulting sinkhole.

"The city's first and strongest concern is making sure that nobody was injured," said Chadron's public works director Milo Rust.

The driver and passenger were able to mostly avoid the sinkhole but the rear of their SUV did fall in to the edge of it, and they suffered bumps and bruises, Rust said.

The water main carries water from the city dams as part of the city's distribution system but is currently dedicated to providing water only to the golf course. No other customers are impacted by the break.
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Woman, dog rescued after being swallowed by massive sinkhole in Portland, Oregon


katu.com
Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:31 UTC
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Portland firefighters rescued a woman and her dog after they fell into a sinkhole in her back yard Tuesday night.

She was looking for her small poodle mix in her back yard when she fell into the sinkhole, which was 20-feet-deep and 3½ feet in diameter.

The woman lives near Southeast Clinton Street and 39th Avenue.

A neighbor heard her cries for help from the bottom of the pit and called 911.

Crews from the Portland Fire Bureau arrived around 7:25 p.m. and immediately used ropes and ladders to get the woman and her dog out of the sinkhole.

Portland Fire and Rescue Lt. Rich Chatman said firefighters at the scene were amazed the woman and her dog were not seriously hurt.
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Yet another UK sinkhole opens up in Yorkshire, three houses evacuated


The Guardian
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:51 UTC
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© UnknownCracks appeared in the ground causing serious damage to at least one house on Magdalens Close in Ripon on Monday evening
Three houses have been evacuated amid fears they could collapse after a 7-metres-wide (25ft) sinkhole opened up in a street.

Police cleared the properties on Magdalen's Close in Ripon, North Yorkshire, at 5.40pm after receiving reports the huge sinkhole had appeared.

A North Yorkshire police spokesman said: "The affected property and two houses nearby have been evacuated and a cordon has been put in place to protect members of the public. At this stage no injuries have been reported."
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Sinkholes opening up all over Britain at a terrifying five times normal rate

Dr Tony Cooper
The Daily Mail
Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:12 UTC
  • Sinkholes seen in Kent, South-East London and Hemel Hempstead
  • One in High Wycombe engulfed a car as it was parked in the driveway
  • Expert believes sinkholes are appearing five times their normal rate
  • Forecast heavy rain could mean more holes appear around the country
On Saturday, a huge sinkhole opened up at the side of a house in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Swallowing up half of the front lawn, it was 35ft wide and 20ft deep.

Last week, a hole as deep as a double-decker bus is high suddenly opened up in the back-garden of a house in South-East London, almost swallowing a child's trampoline as the ground collapsed without warning.

Had the poor owner's daughter been rushing out to play on the trampoline, she could have very easily have been seriously injured or even killed.


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© Press AssociationDangerous: A 50ft-deep hole appeared in the central reservation on a busy section of the M2 in north Kent last week
Two weeks ago, there was a similarly narrow escape for a family living in High Wycombe, when, overnight, a deep hole appeared without warning in the driveway just next to the house.

This time the adult daughter's car did end up buried at the bottom of the hole, thankfully, while there was no one in it.

And in Kent last week, motorists hoping to use the M2 were left fuming by the motorway's temporary closure, after a substantial hole - 15ft deep - suddenly appeared in the central reservation. Again, no one was hurt but had the hole opened up just a few yards away, it is obvious what a different story it could so easily have been.

All of these holes are what the public call sinkholes and now, after weeks of heavy rain, they seem to be appearing with ever greater regularity. Hard statistics are difficult to find - not least because sinkholes that appear on farmland often go unreported - but having studied them for 35 years, I'd estimate that sinkholes are currently appearing at four-to-five times their normal rate.

Comment: The appearance of sinkholes worldwide is has been accelerating for many years now. Truly a sign of the times. Here is just a small sample of stories SOTT has archived:

Sinkholes - A Sign of the Times?
Will the Dead Sea be eaten by sinkholes? Huge chasms are appearing in the region at a rate of one per day
Sinkholes become an item of study
45 sinkholes open up in Kaski, Nepal - 50 families displaced so far

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Widespread polar vortex freezing, erupting volcanoes, strange loud booms, big waves, earthquakes and lots of meteors - Something in space lurks close to earth

Shepard Ambellas
Intellihub
Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:48 UTC
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© China DailyMount Sinabung, Indonesia
Current worldwide weather anomalies and drastic changes with the earth and sun give indication that some type of massive celestial object may be moving in to range, possibly even threatening the inhabitants of earth as emergency preparations by various nations have been taken

It's no big secret that weather patterns are drastically changing worldwide. In Indonesia alone 19 volcanoes were raised to alert status Tuesday, after the Mount Sinabung eruption in North Sumatra killed 16 people last week. Three volcanoes in the region still remain on "high alert". This doevtails with seismic activity in the U.S. Yellowstone region which was also reported to have picked up recently, showing a clear trend of noticeable earth changes worldwide.

And what about the recent cold spell which broke cold weather records in over 50 cities across the U.S.? Shockingly, the temperatures even ran into the frigid negatives throughout pockets of the U.S. that typically never fall that low in temperature.

Influential weathermen, like NBC's Today's Al Roker, are now claiming that the "polar vortex" is to blame, a term listed in some 1959 weather publication entitled the "Glossary of Meteorology" and almost unheard of by modern society. Some weathermen say that the dense cold air has migrated down from the poles causing unusually abnormal weather patterns further south into the United States, making for the coldest spell in decades.

Strangely on Jan. 8, the Today show made mention of a "left winged global conspiracy" regarding the polar vortex, giving a force-fed tidbit to the masses. Take note that the seeding has already begun and corporate propaganda is already in full swing.

Comment: There is evidence that these environmental events may be caused by a companion star to the Sun:

"Check out the Wikipedia page on the so-called 'Nemesis' hypothesis. (And see here for additional resources.) It was introduced in 1984 by two teams of astronomers (Whitmire & Jackson, and Davis, Hut & Muller) to explain the periodically spaced extinction events observed in the earth's fossil record. The idea was that a companion sun passing through or close to the spherical Oort cloud would send a death-dealing swarm of comets in earth's direction every 26 million years or so. Its presence may also help explain the non-random trajectories of certain long-period comets, as well as the strange and unexpected elliptical orbit of the recently discovered transneptunian object Sedna."

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