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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Guest | 10 Jul 2010 - 08:46
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Guest | 5 Jul 2010 - 04:50
Holy Hole!
Guest | 27 Jun 2010 - 03:55
I want to fall in that hole]
Guest | 5 Jun 2010 - 23:50
lmfaooo funny as hole
JJ | 4 Jun 2010 - 15:51
Lol.. its earths little dimple!
Guest | 3 Jun 2010 - 01:22
On the Bowling Green Sinkhole, If by right next to the proposed airpark you mean 5 miles away, then yeah right next to it. And if by water runoff beneath the soil you mean a very large collapse feature in a known cave, then yeah, water runoff.
Guest | 2 Jun 2010 - 17:07
you people seem to find this a joke. when the sink hole takes u and i c u screaming for ur life i will laugh hahahahahahahah
Guest | 2 Jun 2010 - 12:56
I too have filed complaints with the Attorney General, Bronx District Attorney, my state Attorney General and others. In fact I just sent the same packet to the Justice Department.
I'm waiting for a refund of over $9000.00 for a vehicle they didn't have even though they sent me the invoice. I found Copart.com 2 days later, who is the website that ezSalvage is using. Copart is a honest upfront company with locations all over the U.S. and Europe. The vehicle that ezSalvage told me I had won was being auctioned two days on Copart after I paid ezSalvage. I called Copart and spoke with the G.M. and was told they have never heard of ezSalvage, Elite Motors or EmotorsNY.com . After telling her about the vehicle I thought I bought she said she would contact their legal department. MR. Bobby Ricigliano are you own EMOTORS NY.COM Bronx, New York United States Phone: 718-502-9842 ezsalvage.com I want to know if others here whom have been ripped off by these scam artists would be interested in filing a suit? Some have already contacted an attorney. ?
Yuriy | 2 Jun 2010 - 04:41
add this one to your news: news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Flooding-opens-up-sinkholes-Guatemala-Ci ty/ss/events/wl/053110guatemalahole
Guest | 2 Jun 2010 - 02:07
I know theirs a million little tiny sinkholes in Vegas but you can't see them and their only big enough for your money to sink into never to be seen again. It would be cool if there was sinkhole there to swallow that whole money pit of a place. LOL!
Guest | 1 Jun 2010 - 23:02
Check out the latest sinkhole in Guatemala at: guatemalasinkhole.org
DarronFreed | 1 Jun 2010 - 08:43
Back around 1980 or 1981, there was a rather large sinkhole that developed in Winter Park, FL. I seem to remember that it swallowed part of a BMW or Porsche dealership.
Guatemala Sinkhole. Image via 
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