Pick your sink hole

[Serpo]

A couple of sink holes suddenly appearing............

[Serpo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUPCI4LD3Og&feature=player_embedded#at=23

[Serpo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lEp1lKEM_4&feature=player_embedded

[gunDriller]

pick your sink hole ?

sounds CRUSTY.

[keehah]

This one last week was waterlogged.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/07/06/bc-hydro-tower-collapse.html

On Monday evening a high voltage transmission line tower on the south bank of the Fraser River collapsed, pulling down a second tower and several wooden poles in a residential neighbourhood of Surrey.

The collapse also dropped several power lines into the Fraser River and forcing the closure of the Highways 1, 7 and 7B [Cape Horn] for hours, jamming traffic into Vancouver for several hours on Tuesday morning.

BC Hydro blamed the collapse on high water levels and fast moving water in the river which scoured out the base of the tower.

But Coquitlam Richard Stewart Mayor is calling for a full investigation into the collapse so municipalities can understand the risks associated with the infrastructure.

No warnings issued to residents

Stewart says BC Hydro knew there were problems but didn't warn anyone that dangerous high voltage lines could come down quite literally in their own backyard.

"Between them giving it a clean bill of health and a half hour later when an enormous catastrophe almost occurred...

I found one in my side yard a few weeks ago. Digging a drainage trench and 8 inches under the sod surface is a 10 inch hole that I could stick my whole arm into in two directions. Well I stopped digging the trench. I'm going to stick the drainpipe in it and fill it with drainrock. What won't kill it will make it stronger. :)

Interestingly enough the spot above the whole was identifyable before digging. It had the biggest clump of naturalized bulb plant (Mission Bells) growing above it. Probably becasue the drier conditions at that site favoured the spring wildflower yet was too dry for the grass.

[joboo]

First I thought the subject line was missing a letter T.

Bit of a different situation there altogether...

[keehah]

First I thought the subject line was missing a letter T.

Bit of a different situation there altogether...

Well if a scour hole is not really a sink hole, I'd be on topic for your subject. :)
"in a residential neighbourhood of Surrey..."

http://forums.beyond.ca/showthread/t-335251.html

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wsj.com/in-charge/2011/06/28/sinkhole-claims-two-small-businesses (http://blogs.wsj.com/in-charge/2011/06/28/sinkhole-claims-two-small-businesses/?mod=google_news_blog)

The 70-foot sinkhole swallowed up a dumpster, an oak tree and the entire rear wall of the building, which housed Main Street Hair and Beauty Supply and the Saaraa Corner Store. City officials have closed the building, which was valued at more than $200,000, according to a local property appraiser.

Inventory lost in the hole included racks of hair weaves and beauty supplies, among other items.

[Ponce]

Take the oil out of the ground and something else has to fill it.........idiots.

[keehah]

Chevron Oil Field Worker Killed, Swallowed Up by Sinkhole Near Taft (http://www.oilvoice.com/n/Chevron_Oil_Field_Worker_Killed_Swallowed_Up_by_Si nkhole_Near_Taft/9aa6a592d.aspx)

June 23, 2011
At 11 a.m. on Tuesday on a Chevron oil lease at Midoil and Kitty Litter roads, Dave Taylor, 54, and three other workers were walking around when the ground opened up.

The sinkhole was only wide enough for one person, and no one else was hurt...

A Chevron spokeswoman confirmed that Taylor, a construction representative, worked for Chevron for 33 years.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WCJO6fh3W4&feature=player_embedded

[Ponce]

Happens a lot in Texas but is never in the news.