One day you're minding your own business ... and the next day the earth opens up and swallows your home - literally!
WebEcoist lists 13 of the biggest, strangest, and most devastating sinkholes on Earth. The one on the left is in Guatemala City:
Residents of a Guatemala City heard strange rumblings for weeks but weren’t sure what was happening beneath them. Then, in late February 2007, a near-perfect circle of earth dropped some 30 stories almost instantly. It’s amazing how neat the hole is. Two people died and over 1,000 had to be evacuated; the sinkhole resulted from a corroded sewage system deep beneath the surface (apparently the odor coming from the hole was intolerable).
(Photo: Reuters/STR New)
Should we change the site url to neatoholes.com ?
At first, I thought they meant "neat" as in Neatorama "neat". But I think they just meant "tidy". I hope.
"Be careful, the global warming cult members will start saying it is man’s fault that the world is getting holes in it."
That's kind of irrelevant, Jimbo. It's also a pretty lame attempt to troll.
Talk about obsessed.
I'm definitly not going to retire there.
http://www.worleygig.com
Parts of Guatemala Ciry are nice. And the country is beautiful.
lol. I'm from Miami...havn't seen a sinkhole. and I'm not Mexican so I dont celebrate Cinco de Mayo. lol.
*ba boom chic*