These sinkholes are all over the
world, not just America...
Why Are Giant
Sinkholes Appearing All Over America? Is Something Happening To The Earth’s
Crust?
Where are
all of these giant sinkholes coming from? Of course there have always
been sinkholes, but over the past few years it seems like both the severity and
the number of giant sinkholes has been increasing dramatically.
So exactly why are so many giant sinkholes appearing all over America all of
a sudden? Is something happening to the earth’s crust, or is there some
other explanation?
The “experts” are blaming this epidemic of sinkholes on things like loose
soil, acidic groundwater, new construction, leaky water pipes, coal mines, fracking,
long periods of drought followed by rain, and depletion of underground
aquifers, but do they
reallyunderstand what is going on?
On Thursday, a 37-year-old man named Jeffrey Bush living near Tampa, Florida
died when the earth underneath his home suddenly opened up and swallowed him
alive.
His brother tried to help him when he heard Jeffrey screaming, but it was
too late. The entire bedroom was sucked deep into the earth and the home
had to be rapidly abandoned. Now authorities are admitting that he will
probably never be found.
So is this type of thing really “normal”? It would be one thing if
this was just an isolated incident, but the truth is that giant sinkholes have
been appearing with increasing frequency all over the planet lately. Could this
be an indication that major earth changes are on the way?
Florida has always been an area that has been prone to sinkholes, but the
numbers do show that sinkhole damage in the state has increased very rapidly in
recent years.
According to
ABC News, insurance claims related to
sinkholes
more than doubled between 2006 and 2009…
Hillsborough County, where Seffner is situated, is part of an area in
Florida prone to sinkholes, with insurance claims associated with them more
than doubling between 2006 and 2009, according to a Florida Senate report.
But that is just Florida, right?
Other parts of the country are not having this kind of a problem, right?
Wrong.
Just check out what has been happening in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
lately. There are dozens of sinkholes that have opened up in Harrisburg,
and the city is so broke that it doesn’t have the money to fix all of them.
In fact, at this point there are
41 sinkholes that have been
documented in Harrisburg, and many of them are right in the middle of the street…
Pennsylvania’s state capital is suffering from a rash of monster sinkholes,
but city officials are too broke to do anything about it.
Loose soil and leaky, century-old
underground water pipes are to blame for the municipal nightmare, which came to
a head on the New Year’s Eve when a 50-foot sinkhole yawned open along Fourth
Street,
the Wall
Street Journal reported.
The eight-foot deep crater — one of at least 41 in the city — is so large,
locals made it a “check-in” site on the social media site Four Square.
Some cheeky residents
and the media nicknamed the hole
“Super Sinkhole Walter.”
Of course there have been lots of cities throughout U.S. history that have
experienced such an epidemic of sinkholes, right?
There is no reason to be alarmed, right?
In a
previous article about sinkholes,
I talked about a sinkhole that recently formed in Ohio that was the size of
four football fields and that was more than 30 feet deep. It caused part
of State Route 516
to collapse and authorities were
projecting that the road would continue to stay closed for months to come.
But that is “normal”, right?
The giant Louisiana sinkhole in
Assumption Parish that made headlines all over the nation last year is now
more than 800
feet in diameter. It just continues to grow, and authorities have no
idea when it will stop growing.
But this kind of thing happens all the time, right?
Just recently, large sinkholes forced
roads to close
in New Jersey and
in Arizona. Of course those
incidents will soon be forgotten because there are more news stories about
major sinkholes in the United States
almost every
single day now. Giant sinkholes have been happening with such
regularity that people hardly take notice anymore.
You can see some photos of some of the
craziest sinkholes in recent years
right here. It would be one thing
if giant sinkholes were just appearing in the United States, but unfortunately
that is not the case.
For instance, a sinkhole that appeared
in the middle of Guatemala City in 2010 was
about 30 stories deep.
China has been one of the worst areas
of the world for sinkholes over the past several years. In fact, just
check out what has been happening
in one
village in China recently…
Residents in the village of Lianyuan in southern China’s Hunan Province have
been treading rather gingerly these last few months. Over 20 sinkholes have
opened up in the ground since last September. The cave-ins, which range in
size, have seen houses collapse and rivers run dry. And there is never any
warning as to where and when the sinkholes occur. According to local
authorities, the main reason for the cave-ins is the number of coalmines in the
area. It is not clear what steps are being taken to prevent further sinkholes from
appearing.
I could go on and on with more examples from all over the globe, but
hopefully you are starting to get the point.
Giant holes are opening up all over the earth and swallowing homes,
buildings, roads and sometimes even people.
So why is this happening?
Is the crust of the earth becoming more unstable?
Or is something else at work?
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