That sinking feeling: Woman finds giant sinkh*le under her bed
4 hrs agoHere’s something you never want to hear: «That loud booming sound is coming fromВ inside the house!»
A sinkh*le formed in a house on July 19, 2011 in the north of Guatemala City.(Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty ImagesВ
That’s what one Inocenta Hernandez from Guatemala City learned after a sudden noise caused her to run outside, thinking there had been an explosion nearby.When she realized the problem was inside her home, she returned to find a gaping, three feet wide, 40 feet deepВ sinkh*leВ beneath her bed.
Hernandez, 65, was relieved that the damage was only to her house, and hadn’t harmed her grandchildren, who had been playing near the bed.This was a little too close to home, but she couldn’t have been too surprised that a sinkh*le had visited her city.
Guatemala City is prone to spawningВ giant pits, which are often caused by tropical rain storms.Sinkh*les are natural depressions in the earth that can range anywhere from a few feet to hundreds of acres wide, and measure a shallow foot to 100 feet deep.
Another view of the sink h*le (Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images)
AВ ma*sive chasmВ opened up in Guatemala City back in May 2010; itВ swallowed up wh*le buildings and an intersection.No deaths were blamed on the almost perfect cylindrical crater, though.
Meanwhile, aВ Texas-sized pitВ opened up inВ Daisetta, TexasВ in 2008.The sinkh*le stretched 600 feet long and 150 feet wide; it sucked down a tractor, several telephone poles and an a*sortment of oil field equipment.
Searches certainly opened up on the Web.Lookups on Yahoo!for «what is a sinkh*le» and «guatemala sinkh*le» and even «daisetta sinkh*le» all grew in the last week.
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