Now That's A Pothole of Biblical Proportions ...

In my younger days I was eye witness to a huge sink hole just off US 17/92 in Winter Park, Florida that took several houses, a municipal swimming pool and a Porsche Dealership, truly an awesome display of nature, well here's another one of those…

This photo just posted to the Guatemalan Government's Flick'r feed shows a spontaneous sinkhole ("hundimiento") 20 meters deep and 15 wide, (that’s close to 60 feet deep and 45 feet around) that appeared today in Zone 2 of Guatemala City, after overwhelming saturation of rains from tropical storm Agatha. Local press reports that it swallowed an entire 3-story building. Not Photoshop, sadly: these happen from time to time during major storms in part because of unstable geology, and in part, bad urban engineering. A break in the over-stressed sewage pipes after the storm was the cause for this one. There are rumors of other sinkholes now forming nearby.

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