. . Crime against humanity
Posted on 02/12/2014 11:02:36 AM PST by Doogle
The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., has long been a mini-Mecca for fans of America's most hallowed sports car. Early this morning, that museum suffered the catastrophe shown above, when a sinkhole in the Sky Dome opened up and swallowed eight rare Vettes, including two that belonged to General Motors.
According to museum officials, the sinkhole began around 5:30 a.m. while the museum was closed, and within minutes had grown to about 40 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet deep. No one was injured, but the list of Corvettes spelunking in the hole includes two on loan from General Motors, a rare 1993 ZR-1 Spyder and a 2009 ZR1 Blue Devil that may have been the original show car.
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. . Crime against humanity
Apparently, the sinkhole has an appetite for the skin of the vehicles and not the internals.
GMC = Gay Male Citizens
“Corvette” = dog-whistle feminized name
“Swallowing Corvette” = need I be explicit?
Looks like = cover-up to me!
Florida has a serious problem with sinkholes. Could it be caused by the network of caverns under the Appalachians? Sometimes we’d hear of a small sinkhole around the NYC area, like one that opened up in the Meadowlands, near Giants stadium about 10 years ago, but they are very rare up there.
Those kinds of questions are really easy to answer - just ask yourself which choice gets the insurance company off the hook.
Corvettes? Who cares!!!
Especially if they were post-1967.
“Or can something like this occur over time and wasn’t present then?”
Didn’t read the article. It is probably limestone, with portions of it dissolving as water flows through it forming a cave that gets bigger until it collapses. Often with no buildings, roads, etc. things are fine. Add those structures in and end up dumping more water into one place like from a roof drain and now you have a concentrated flow of water that either creates a new cave, or makes one that was deeper down worse. Now to look at the picture!
Never met her...Does she drive a vette?
Oh
holy mole-y
...I see it now.
Ya gotta think there's some poetic justice in here....Any ideas???
Gotta have something to do with water someplace.....as usual
We also have to remember that this is relatively close to the Mammoth Cave network and in an area comprised of limestone, which leads to the development of caverns.
We visited last year. I really was hoping to take a factory tour, but they hadn’t reopened from the retooling closure for the new ‘Vette.
It was a sink hole that swallowed my highly insured car and my guns. Honest.
contact them....*smiles*...and report back...
I think it's just something endemic to the area.
There are 257 sinkholes in a one-mile radius of the museum. (See: http://www.plotscan.com
Maybe Springsteen's follow-up to "Cadillac Ranch"?
well that sucks...
big time
Ditto that!
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