Guatemalan Sinkhole

[AquaMan2342]

Anybody see these pictures yet? Story

[TheRock]

Holy cow! That's 200 feet straight down. How the heck does a sinkhole like that develop?

[Metroid]

Holy moly! That is scary as hell! It's amazing a hole that big opened up in a city and only one man is missing.

[AussieDodger]

How the heck does a sinkhole like that develop?

A Metroid family reunion?

[Metroid]

How the heck does a sinkhole like that develop?

A Metroid family reunion?

It's true. When that much awesome is in the same place at the same time it blast holes in the ground. What they didn't capture in the photo is the unicorns flying from the hole.

[The Artful Dodger]

Holy cow! That's 200 feet straight down. How the heck does a sinkhole like that develop?

[TheRock]

What do you do with a hole that big right in the middle of town? Fill it in somehow? Rosie O'Donnell, sure, but she's not available all the time. They would have to buy a mountain somewhere and truck it in over a period of years to fill that thing. Maybe just put some nice velvet ropes around it and charge tourists to look down it?

[knapplc]

They've filled in other sinkholes before. I just read about one that was filled in and redeveloped. I'd be pretty nervous about working or living over a filled-in sinkhole or cenote.

I wonder if that area is more prone to sinkholes due to the Chicxulub crater? It's quite a way away, but it's possible.

[Pogotheostrich]

What do you do with a hole that big right in the middle of town? Fill it in somehow? Rosie O'Donnell, sure, but she's not available all the time. They would have to buy a mountain somewhere and truck it in over a period of years to fill that thing. Maybe just put some nice velvet ropes around it and charge tourists to look down it?

I'm sure they handle it the same way MODOT fixes potholes here in St. Louis. They take a large piece of sheet metal and cover the hole then bolt down the corners. Viola, no more hole.

[Dan Lambskin]

What do you do with a hole that big right in the middle of town? Fill it in somehow? Rosie O'Donnell, sure, but she's not available all the time. They would have to buy a mountain somewhere and truck it in over a period of years to fill that thing. Maybe just put some nice velvet ropes around it and charge tourists to look down it?

I'm sure they handle it the same way MODOT fixes potholes here in St. Louis. They take a large piece of sheet metal and cover the hole then bolt down the corners. Viola, no more hole.

if they did that in Michigan we'd be driving on sheet metal roads