Imagine walking down the street, minding your own business, when suddenly the earth begins to shake and fold in.
Imagine that the very ground you stand on is disintegrating beneath your feet, being devoured by a giant hole.
No - this isn’t some lewd joke about Paris Hilton or something from Return of the Jedi.
No, today we’re going to explore the phenomenon of sinkholes and some of the most incredible and destructive examples.
Before we go into them however, you’ll probably need a bit of amateur scientific background from me.
In short, sinkholes form when the bedrock or soil underneathsubsides, forcing the topsoil (or in many cases concrete) to collapse.
They can be exceptionally large (several hundred meters in diameter and depth) and can swallow everything directly above.
So, without further ado, here are five giant holes that devoured everything around them.
5. Montrose Avenue sinkhole
80 feet in diameter and 15 feet deep, a huge sinkhole opened up inthe middle of Montrose Avenue after a water main break flooded thetarmac.
The avenue remained closed for a couple weeks and helped shut downroughly 8 businesses, right after Christmas, in January this year.Fortunately, no one was killed.
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