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Giant sinkhole opens in Germany
Repairs are to begin Wednesday on a 65-foot-deep (20 meters) sinkhole that opened in the eastern German town of Schmalkalden on Monday, local authorities said.
The sinkhole, which measured more than 130 feet (40 meters) across, swallowed a car and forced the evacuation of 25 people in nine houses, the regional newspaper Thueringer-Allgemeine reported.
Officials told the paper more than 1,000 truckloads of gravel would be needed to fill the hole.
Residents reported hearing a loud roar as the earth gave way early Monday morning, according to the newspaper report. The cause of the sinkhole had not been determined.
JĆ¼rgen Reinholz, environment and agriculture minister for the state of Thuringia, said natural causes were suspected, according to Spiegel Online International.
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That poor yellow vehicle, guess he ain't going anywhere for a good while.
In looking at it, there doesn't even seem to be a way to save the yellow car. I mean, where could someone drive it, that's not closer to the edge?
They could drive it in the garage, unless it's full of stuff.. Ha Ha
There looks to be a couple feet in front of it.... They could worm their way out of their slowly.... Very very very slowly....
Nothing a little K-turn onto the lawn can't solve...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/nov/01/germany-sinkhole-crater-schmalkalden#/?picture=368256224&index=7
Check more pics there....of your fav yellow car too...LoLzz
I know what causes sinkholes. It's the Earth farting.
Can anyone guess what kind of a car is it? ( the yellow one)
The yellow car would be put into neutral, and towed with a long chain. It would be nerve-wracking for the person steering the car, but it would be the only way to save it. It might not be worth it. The ground should also be tested in the surrounding area by X-ray for caves, underground streams, old mines, or other causes; it could happen again.
Just get a bunch of people, pick the car up, and turn it to the side. Then drive out š
From this pic, http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/1/1288629281910/Giant-landslide-under-a-r-020.jpg it looks like the yellow car would indeed be saved. Yea!
However, anything in that 5-car garage is toast.
The owner of the yellow car doing the "Happy Dance". http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/1/1288629284942/A-member-of-the-emergeny–022.jpg
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the yellow car is a 1980s model of VW Passat 1980s model....i think..what do u say?
1980 vw Passat..likes to drive on the edge....
Natural causes underground!!! super colliding particles and the *underground" you know, are probly what happened.
"observer", must've been one helluva fart! Well, the news did say something about a loud roar. Whatever happened to all that stink?
Helicopter could move it..
Oh no, it's the Sandworms of Dune!!! They burrowed through the earth from central america
"natural causes were suspected"... bwahahahaha!!!!! snort, bwahahahaha!!!! I can't breathe.... giggle, hehehehehe, bwahaha!!!!! O my god! I can't breathe.....
50% of the United States is blaming Obama.
Huh ?
100% of the Republicans are blaming Obama and Pelosi for this sinkhole.
BC, that's because 50% of Americans have nothing better to do than Blame Obama for things that he most definitely had no part of. i.e hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, sink holes, volcanoes.....
who are you
Same reaction. Absolutely hysterical. STILL can't stop laughing.
50% of Americans are blaming Obama
50% of Americans are blaming Bush
In other news....France took one look at this picture and immediately surrendered to the Sinkhole.
Well, friend, sometimes sinkholes are due to human endeavors – such as the one that opened up in my backyard when a giant drain pipe collapsed. Or the one that opened up in my uncles farm when an old mind shaft collapsed. Or the one that opened up in Utah last year when someone's fallout shelter collapsed. But a 65 foot hole is probably natural. I'll give you that.
The other 50% is blaming Bush.
sometimes collapses can happen from underground fires in abandoned coal mines; they can keep slowly burning 100+ years. I doubt that's the cause here, but, another example of how the earth can collapse due to man-made causes. Most that happen in urban areas are from broken water lines that keep spewing out water and slowly erroding away the earth. We had big one in Colorado on I-25 awhile back from a broken water line.
I was wondering if anyone else thought that the wording of "natural causes are suspected" was funny. I'd say the odds are that an old mine shaft, or other man-made cavity are more likely causes, which I think would leave out "natural causes" altogether!
After looking at tonights election results it would appear that 51% are blaming Obama.
Natural my butt. AGW caused this! (the Haitian earthquake too)
This is Gods wrath on them. They are a cursed people. They had it coming, Repent NOW!!!!!!
Oh wait, opps I though this was Haiti.
This is such a travesty what a shame...... Poor people.
LOL
yup~ it's God's sign of judgment according to each individual deeds. God really want people to wake up and realize God's love for them before they die and go to the eternal suffering of hell~ God is anxiously calling everyone.
ha ha good one!!
Or....a response from a Christian worship leader, and also one with an environmental science degree....This is earth, sinkholes happen. Lets keep the Christian mocking to a dull roar in these posts that have nothing to do with religion.
As a non-christian, I'd like to say Chris is right. This has nothing to do with religion...or polictics for that matter. It speaks volumes of the character of people, when they turn scientific news stories into a milieu for bashing those who don't agree with them. Sink holes happen, as do tornadoes and mosquito bites.
Might make one wonder what caused it, some WWII construction, cold war construction or true natural causes..
Maybe they are on top of an old mine that collapsed...
"BC in BA
50% of the United States is blaming Obama"
Thanks, that was good and I needed the laugh!
the other 50% are blaming Bush
A more likely suspect. lol j/k
I hope you guys do realize that you're basically saying that 100% of Americans are morons right? (50% blame Obama and 50% blame Buish)... the only ones who win here would be those who hate America not Democrats or Republicans.
@NIcanadian, not necessarily - knowing some of our citizens, some voted both ways!
"I hope you guys do realize that you're basically saying that 100% of Americans are morons right?"
Was there ever any doubt? "Basically" I mean?
bin laden ??
The yellow car. Imagine leaving for work in the wee hours, it is still very dark out. You enter and start your vehicle, shifting into reverse...
That made me lmao
yeah, wow- can you imagine? lol! that's the last thing I would've had in mind!!!!!!!!!
At least no one was hurt. I am curious whether the hole was a natural cavern, a mine, or caused by poor implementation of sewage. I guess when CNN knows more so will we.
I wouldn't count on it.
Just fill it with water and the people have lake front property. The value of that real estate just doubled.
Then that might make it flush like a toilet, while you're swimming in it!
Yeah except their driveway is a boat launch.
imagine ur house house was sitn n top of that hole
The most interesting thing that's happened in this boring hole for a long time.
Has anyone noticed how fake that looks? honestly look at it close up, reminds me of a train set š and why is everyone repeating "50% of Americans Blame Obama" everyone knows it was the loch ness monster.
You just repeated it.
@pooh Sense of Humor fail.
Someone once said that oil is the earths lubricant and we're sucking it all out.....
I dunno. something to think about? Maybe?
Aw hell.. Its Obamas fault...
Sucking out oil or gas can cause huge gaps underground; yes it is possible.
Fault? Not anybody American. It just looks like a hole, but if it is a fault, it should be named for somebody local to Germany. Let's see, who might have been somebody evil in Germany in the past 100 years or so...
Are you implying that we're doing Mother Earth dry?
Now they can install a pool!
Kinda deep... that water is going to cost them...