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Chris in Tampa on 3/1/2013, 7:22 pm
The fact that someone died is shocking. Sinkholes happen around here, especially this time of the year, but I have never heard of one being deadly. While things have been dry around here, it has not been cold this year. The really big problem is when it is cold the farmers have to water to form a protective layer over some crops when it freezes. That uses massive amounts of water. I guess some might evaporate and a lot might runoff to rivers as the aquifer underground gets drier. You get caverns that used to have water and then they can collapse. Several years ago when it got very cold here for a winter there were a lot of sinkholes. In fact, I think the water in a lake even got drained because of a sinkhole. Sinkholes got so bad, popping up all over the place, people were very angry at the farmers.
Of course it happens naturally too, but it really gets bad when the farmers have to use a lot of water.
My neighborhood is right next to a canal so we don't get those kind of sinkholes. I think someone in my neighborhood had a minor sinkhole once, but just some cracking around perhaps at most, but thankfully nothing larger because we are right next to the water, so if there was any open area that developed salt water would simply fill it. We don't even have sinkhole insurance. I think we used to but either I don't think we can get the type of sinkholes they might have covered or the odds being on the water were just so low it did not seem worth it for the price and coverage. I think the more likely problem would be a seawall collapsing and the land, and house, just sliding into the water. |
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