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Huge Sinkhole Emerges in Guatemala After Tropical Storm
Gather ^ | May 31, 2010

Posted on 05/31/2010 9:19:59 PM PDT by skeptoid

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This one looks a little larger than the one that formed there on 23 February 2007:


1 posted on 05/31/2010 9:19:59 PM PDT by skeptoid
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To: skeptoid

How deep is it?


2 posted on 05/31/2010 9:23:13 PM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: skeptoid
Happens frequently in certain parts of the world, particularly Florida as far as the U.S. is concerned, although not typically of the magnitude in that picture.

I remember that happening once in downtown Columbus, Ohio and at the bottom of the sinkhole was the car of a lawyer. I think it was back in the mid 80’s.

3 posted on 05/31/2010 9:24:15 PM PDT by Pox
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The second pic looks like a picture of a model with a hole in the tabletop.


4 posted on 05/31/2010 9:24:16 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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A landfill right in the center of town, how convenient.

Seriously, what the heck do they do with these things?


5 posted on 05/31/2010 9:24:25 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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How deep is that? I can’t see the bottom. Looks like an endless abyss.


6 posted on 05/31/2010 9:24:34 PM PDT by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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I think another article said it was about 200 feet deep. =8-0


7 posted on 05/31/2010 9:25:24 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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Gotta be more than 70’. At least, that’s about how deep the walls seem to go. I can’t tell how deep the space underneath it goes.


8 posted on 05/31/2010 9:25:29 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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9 posted on 05/31/2010 9:26:00 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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That was my first thought too. The thing that amazed me was how circular the hole is. It also seems like there is a huge cavern underneath the sink hole, implying more could follow.


10 posted on 05/31/2010 9:26:27 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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...at the bottom of the sinkhole was the car of a lawyer...

I was waiting for the punchline.
11 posted on 05/31/2010 9:26:45 PM PDT by Egg (Only in America can a poor black Kenyan-born Brit grow up to be president.)
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You’re kidding me! That’s Photoshop, right? Eek!


12 posted on 05/31/2010 9:27:09 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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Kind of amazing that these sink holes are almost perfectly round, and straight. No photos inside of the hole?


13 posted on 05/31/2010 9:27:34 PM PDT by chemicalman
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Just wait until the oil, methane, and sea water starts gushing out.


14 posted on 05/31/2010 9:28:01 PM PDT by Egg (Only in America can a poor black Kenyan-born Brit grow up to be president.)
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Weird how round and smooth sided these ‘tunnel-like’ sink holes look.


15 posted on 05/31/2010 9:29:15 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: Mmogamer
This is the 2007 sinkhole, not yesterday's event.

Note the graphic in upper right


16 posted on 05/31/2010 9:29:50 PM PDT by skeptoid
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I remember seeing it on the news while I was stationed in West Germany (at least I think that’s when it happened), so I actually never heard the end of the story, but I would imagine the lawyer had no problems with a claim for compensation. :)
17 posted on 05/31/2010 9:31:57 PM PDT by Pox
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Don’t tell the obama zombies. They’ll want to jump in.


18 posted on 05/31/2010 9:32:00 PM PDT by matt1234
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The real question is what, or who, is at the bottom? Abaddon?


19 posted on 05/31/2010 9:32:17 PM PDT by pankot
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It wasn't global warming, it was global worming! Now, for pete's sake will someone get after it before we're living on a wiffle ball?
20 posted on 05/31/2010 9:33:02 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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