Skip to comments.
Homes evacuated in Texas as ground shifts below (San Antonio)
AP on Yahoo ^
| 1/25/10
| AP
Posted on 01/25/2010 10:22:53 AM PST by NormsRevenge
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-74 next last
2
posted on
01/25/2010 10:24:23 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
3
posted on
01/25/2010 10:25:30 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: NormsRevenge
***The homes were in a new subdivision...***
I wonder if those homes were built over an existing excavation of mines.
4
posted on
01/25/2010 10:29:32 AM PST
by
kitkat
(Obama hates us. Well, maybe a LOT of Kenyans do.)
To: NormsRevenge
I'm not a tin foiled hatter, yet this and Haiti make one pause and think of Armageddon.
5
posted on
01/25/2010 10:29:36 AM PST
by
Mengerian
To: kitkat
Probably build atop limestone, and a sinkhole is forming.
6
posted on
01/25/2010 10:30:12 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Vor Lady
I guess we have a few too many movers & shakers here...
7
posted on
01/25/2010 10:30:24 AM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
(Raise the fanged and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weaponed mistress...)
To: Mengerian
I'm not a tin foiled hatter, yet this and Haiti make one pause and think of Armageddon. No, Haiti was a natural geological process and this was probably as well, I know there is a lot of limestone in the Austin area and that probably extends down to San Antonio as well. Limestone forms caves, and when a cave gets too close to the surface, you get sinkholes.
8
posted on
01/25/2010 10:31:49 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: NormsRevenge
I’m losing confidence that votes like this aren’t contingent on bundles of cash exchanging hands. More likely i’m just too naive to have ever believed they did without it. Whores all.
We need to hold down the D.C. power button for 10 seconds and listen for the “tong”.
9
posted on
01/25/2010 10:31:57 AM PST
by
TruthHound
("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
To: NormsRevenge
Looks like house sites are on alluvial fill, too close to the retreating scarp. I doubt that there is a fix for this.
10
posted on
01/25/2010 10:32:24 AM PST
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
To: NormsRevenge
Lots of underground caves/caverns/rivers in that part of Texas. Could just be from an underground cave in.
To: NormsRevenge
We’ve had sinkholes opening up in the Tampa Bay area recently. Quite a few along highways. Those photos make it look more like the retaining wall is giving way, and the buildings are sliding...not what we, in Florida, typically see when a sinkhole opens up (probably because everything’s so flat here, it just looks like a hole in the ground.)
12
posted on
01/25/2010 10:33:19 AM PST
by
dawn53
To: NormsRevenge
That part of Texas is an old sea bed filled with lime stone caves.
13
posted on
01/25/2010 10:36:47 AM PST
by
kempo
To: Cincinatus
Civil engineer or geologist? I’ve never heard those terms before.
To: dirtboy
Bingo. Seems they ought to do a geophysical survey before building in areas of limestone.
15
posted on
01/25/2010 10:50:25 AM PST
by
HerrBlucher
(Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
To: Mengerian
EASY, EASY, EASY...sounds like a geologist with those subsurface descriptions, never mention Engineer and Geologist in the same breath - someone can and often does get offended!...my bet is a geologist
16
posted on
01/25/2010 10:51:48 AM PST
by
BA63
To: BA63
He is probably an Engineering Geologist.
17
posted on
01/25/2010 10:53:52 AM PST
by
HerrBlucher
(Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
To: kitkat
or a previous land fill or dump, something that deteriorates ...
How scary for them.
18
posted on
01/25/2010 10:54:32 AM PST
by
geologist
(The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
To: Cincinatus
Looks like house sites are on alluvial fill, too close to the retreating scarp The aerial shot (Birdseye View) on Bing.com/maps, shows that you are correct. The shot looking east shows that not only were the houses built on fill, there was cut right about where the failure occurred. The cut appears to have been to allow the construction equipment access to both the top and bottom of the slope. Quite likely they didn't properly fill and compact it. (Some of the shots from other directions show the houses already built, some of them anyway, but the one I'm thinking of shows the site prep in progress, but no houses right there.
19
posted on
01/25/2010 10:56:59 AM PST
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: geologist
Sacred Indian Burial Ground (and not covered by homeowner’s insurance).
20
posted on
01/25/2010 10:57:15 AM PST
by
Wolfie
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-74 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson