4 missing after Quebec home falls in sinkhole

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/11/10 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

SAINT-JUDE, Quebec – Four people, including two children, are missing after the land beneath their home gave way and swallowed their house northeast of Montreal, officials said Tuesday.

Rescue authorities said the house partially collapsed Monday night in Saint-Jude, a town of 1,000 near the Yamaska River, when a sinkhole formed.

"It's a pretty gigantic crater," said Francois Gregoire, a Quebec fire department spokesman. "It's hard imagining something like this. It's pretty impressive."

Gregoire said the house was quite far from the river before the land gave way but that part of it ended up in the water.

[Del Rapier]

I was wondering if there was something else to it.The town might want to start checking its hmmm “basement”.

There usually has to be a cause for a sink hole to occur.Not quite as drastic as what happened up in “Silent hill” but it could still be a precurssor to something worse.

[mlocher]

your need to make a wisecrack

My comment was not meant to be a wisecrack. It was meant to be an analogy about sinkholes and our economy (and for that matter, the moral fiber of our society under this administration).

I’m sorry for your need to make a wisecrack when we face the prospects of dead children.

I accept your apology. Now that is a wisecrack.

[righttackle44]

Thank you for accepting my apology. Now I know what kind of person you are.