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Title: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Herra Tohtori on February 24, 2007, 11:17:04 am
BBC: Guatemala homes swallowed by hole (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6391117.stm)

 :eek2: :shaking:


Daamn... one hell of a hole I dare say. Apparently the town's main sewage pipe had been ripped due to an obstruction, and the leaking sewage water eventually created this fricking huge cave, which then collapsed. Although I dare suspect that explanation - unless the ground is really, really soft in Guatemala, because that kind of geological features normally take hundreds or thousands of years to be created by flowing water.

Here (http://www.ordena.com/digg/sinkhole.html) are some pretty impressive photos.

(http://www.ordena.com/digg/tophole.jpg)


I'd say that in freakyness scale this is almost on par with the Indonesian sludge volcano, just the scale is a little smaller.
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: aldo_14 on February 24, 2007, 11:28:30 am
Crikey.  That's one big hole.
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Sarafan on February 24, 2007, 12:04:12 pm
That's freaking huge, we had something similar to this here recently but it was only 200ft and the cause was sheer incompetence, the companies in charge of the construction decided to save some money by not using adequate materials to build the thing, 7 people died because of that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6258379.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6258579.stm
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Rictor on February 24, 2007, 12:07:53 pm
Bless the Maker and his water. Bless the coming and going of him. May his passage cleanse the world.
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Nuclear1 on February 24, 2007, 12:17:20 pm
Crikey.  That's one big hole.

That's what she said.

:nervous:
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Herra Tohtori on February 24, 2007, 12:20:29 pm
Crikey.  That's one big hole.

That's what she said.

:nervous:

Who? :nervous:
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Nuclear1 on February 24, 2007, 12:22:37 pm
Crikey.  That's one big hole.

That's what she said.

:nervous:

Who? :nervous:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7T2nJLFQA

or, slightly longer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=exm7HMA1tDM
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Fineus on February 24, 2007, 12:24:22 pm
Damnit, you guys beat me to the joke.

Ah well... I'll try another one. There's a theory going around that that hole isn't from rain, it's from weapons fire...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5d/Ioncannon.jpg/200px-Ioncannon.jpg)

Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Unknown Target on February 24, 2007, 12:33:22 pm
That's a big hole.
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: karajorma on February 24, 2007, 12:50:11 pm
First Brazil then Guatamala?

Prepares himself for the appearance of the The Underminer!
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Fragrag on February 24, 2007, 01:07:22 pm
Whoa, Hey Arnold! (Someone is bound to get that)
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: redsniper on February 24, 2007, 01:35:35 pm
^^ Move it football head!
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Bob-san on February 24, 2007, 03:09:25 pm
^^ How about some green tea?
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Taristin on February 24, 2007, 05:13:19 pm
It's an emergence hole... but the house fell on the locust instead.
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Nuke on February 24, 2007, 06:58:18 pm
god damn mother earth is a whore!

Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Tyrian on February 24, 2007, 06:58:41 pm
Didn't the US promise not to play Russian Roulette with the orbital particle beams?

But seriously:

Crikey.  That's one big hole.

It doesn't seem to me that a sewer pipe could do that much damage...Unless it was a really big pipe...
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: achtung on February 24, 2007, 07:44:53 pm
There's no way a sewer pipe did that, in those extra pictures, I think I see rock.
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Turnsky on February 24, 2007, 08:32:46 pm
"That's a Spicy meat-a-ball!"  :p
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Nuclear1 on February 24, 2007, 08:53:28 pm
That's a big hole.

That's what she said.

:nervous:
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Alpha_Monkey on February 25, 2007, 03:57:07 am
Hard to believe raw sewage did that, unless the sewage in Guatemala is *really* corrosive.

Must be all the chilli's in their diet?
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Nuke on February 25, 2007, 04:02:54 am
must suck to fall into the earths asshole
bad joke #2
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: NGTM-1R on February 25, 2007, 11:38:31 am
Although I dare suspect that explanation - unless the ground is really, really soft in Guatemala, because that kind of geological features normally take hundreds or thousands of years to be created by flowing water.

Naturally flowing water's not pressurized.
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Unknown Target on February 25, 2007, 12:52:17 pm
There is no such thing as gravity - the Earth just sucks.




For some reason I thought that was appropriate to the topic :D
Title: Re: 100 metres deep hole swallows homes in Guatemala
Post by: Gortef on February 26, 2007, 08:45:39 am
Yea that sure is one heck of a surprise to get swallowed by one of those.

On the other hand, either the sewage water has been dissolwing the ground for a long time or one might say the "mixture" has been quite strong