Posted on 06/17/2005 1:29:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
ABANDONED CISTERN WAS UNDER STRUCTURE
CENTRAL KENTUCKY BUREAU
McAFEE -- When Lela Stewart heard a noise late Monday night, she thought her cat had accidentally overturned something.
No shelves were disturbed so she looked in the garage -- and discovered her new Ford Escape at the bottom of a 10-foot-deep hole. The garage's concrete floor had collapsed into an abandoned cistern.
"I go to the door and open it and there's a big puff of smoke, which was concrete dust," Stewart said. "I just put my face in my hands and went, 'This can't be happening.'"
Stewart, who has lived in the Mercer County home since 1991, said the cistern probably hasn't contained water for 20 years.
"Had I known it would be dangerous, I definitely wouldn't have put my new truck in there," she said.
Before waterlines were extended into rural areas, many homes across Kentucky had underground cisterns, said Randy Couch, the State Farm Insurance representative in Harrodsburg who has Stewart's home and auto insurance policies.
"Before these rural water districts got city water to people, this was a common way to get water," Couch said.
A Harrodsburg company will begin work Monday to extract the vehicle from the hole.
Meanwhile, Couch said: "I've had several calls from people asking me if I know anybody that could come and check their cistern."
Hmmm, a not so aptly named Ford Escape.
Something about that picture reminded me of the 'Meaning of Life':
"And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint. Oh, sir, it's only a tiny, little, thin one. Just one."
And while I'm here,
"Badger, badger, badger, badger
Mushroom!
Badger, badger, badger, badger
Badger, badger, badger, badger
Snay-ake, SNAKE!"
""Badger, badger, badger, badger
Mushroom!
Badger, badger, badger, badger
Badger, badger, badger, badger
Snay-ake, SNAKE!"
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
My take was it was going back to hell from whence it came. ;-)
No, the gas-guzzling evil polluting SUV was trying to drill for its own oil.
Murphy's Law....
Probably sabotaged by Green Peace.
"What's this nonsense about needing a bed and a tailgate to be a truck? And just who are you calling little????"
Was it a cistern or a septic tank?
still ain't a truck...just a shiny station wagon.
Must be one of those big maine coon viking cats. One of those big kitties could have gone through her garage floor!
Since when have you seen a station wagon do this?
The Escape is a toy. Most SUVs are station wagons with tall bodies. My Jeep is not. :) Station wagons don't run Ouray or the Rubicon and survive. :)
ping
do a google search on International CXT .... now that's a truck!!!!!!
Don't have to, they make them about 10 miles from here - see them all the time.
I don't have a need for one of them, but i sure would like to have the money in my bank account to buy one of 'em.
I drive an old 1982 Chevrolet 1/2 ton 2 wheel drive with a new engine with less than 20K on it.
It suits me just fine. It was one owner and I bought it from the old guy for $1000.00. no dents, rust or scratches and he is the one that had the cheverolet dealer put the new mr. goodwrench engine in.
It was a heck of a deal and i couldn't be more pleased if it was brand new. Should easily last me another 10 years or more. I don't need "new", I need "dependable".
Wait just a danged minute there, I call my Tahoe a truck and I called my suburban a truck! I HATE the term SUV and I refuse to call them that. I have driven a "truck" for over 30 years. Just got a new one Tuesday, she is pretty! %;9)
Unless it was built with some advanced technology, the floor doesn't look like it would carry any weight at all. Perhaps it was not intended to be a garage floor.
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