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Sinkhole in Georgia Nearly Swallows Sonic Restaurant
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- The earth must be craving a bit more than a Sonic Burger. On Saturday, a combination of torrential rains and 25-year-old rusty pipes in Cleveland, Ga., opened what's arguably a sinkhole beneath the tiny town's only Sonic Drive-In restaurant and next-door car wash, nearly swallowing both buildings whole before customers and employees could escape. Watch more NECN videos on AOL Video "It was frightening," Sonic manager Tammy Moore said in an exclusive interview with AOL News Surge Desk. "We were all here when the rain started coming down and we had to act pretty fast. The ...
Video: Tampa Sinkhole Swallows Car
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 12) -- For the second time in two months, the ground has suddenly opened up and claimed a prize. Residents of a Tampa, Fla., condominium complex were evacuated from their homes on Sunday after a 20-foot-wide sinkhole appeared in a parking lot, taking a Toyota Camry along with it. Eleven families at the Bordeaux Village Condominiums have been forced to relocate as crews work on stabilizing the growing hole, the St. Petersburg Times reported. As Surge Desk's Carl Franzen reported after a massive sinkhole swallowed an apartment building in Guatemala, sinkholes are fairly common both ...
Giant Guatemala Sinkhole Growing, Could Swallow More, Says Geologist
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyCould the giant, 60-feet wide, 30-story-deep sinkhole that has already swallowed a building and claimed the life of at least one man in Guatemala City be increasing in size and appetite? That's the theory posited by at least one expert, Dr. James Currens, a hydrogeologist from the University of Kentucky who was interviewed on Tuesday by National Geographic. According to Currens, "depending on the makeup of the subsurface layer, the Guatemala sinkhole 'could eventually enlarge and take in more buildings.'" The phenomenon of rapidly growing sinkholes is well documented, but the Guatemala case ...
Tropical Storm Agatha Death, Destruction Figures Rise
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs 2010's hurricane season officially began on Tuesday, government workers in Central America were busy taking stock of the casualties and devastation left behind from Tropical Storm Agatha. Here are the latest figures: 179 people have been confirmed dead. 152 of those were reported by government officials in Guatemala, where 100 others are still missing. 17 people in Honduras and 10 more in El Salvador have also been killed, the Associated Press reported. 125,000 Guatemalans and 11,000 El Salvadorans have been evacuated so far because of a series of mudslides triggered by the violent ...
How to Fix a Giant Sinkhole (in Guatemala or Elsewhere)
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyLoyal Surge Desk readers know that the giant sinkhole that appeared in Guatemala City on Monday is not as rare as it might appear. But that leaves a related question: Just how does one go about fixing a sinkhole, especially when it is the size of a multi-story building? Excavate and Filter According to Leigh University in Pennsylvania, a sinkhole "is best repaired by excavating to rock" and then filling the hole with several different layers of stones of varying sizes to form an "aggregate filter." The site includes a diagram, vaguely reminiscent of seven layer dip, showing how this can be ...
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