Massive sinkhole opens up in Florida woman's backyard | Morning in America
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- A massive hole has opened in Weeki Wachee, Florida, in a woman's backyard amid heavy rain. The homeowner told NewsNation affiliate WFLA it's “alarming” that something like this could happen in her backyard.
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I remember a story where a man was sleeping in his bedroom and a sinkhole opened up under him and was never found. His brother tried to dig him out but he was too far down and totally buried with his bed. Terrifying.
Yep. It happened to a family living in Brandon, just outside of Tampa. His name was Jeff Bush.😢
It was in Seffner, part of "sinkhole alley". It just reopened again last year and his brother went there again. Both houses next door were torn down and a big fence is around the area. I believe this was the 3rd time it's reopened. His brother is still heartbroken he couldn't reach him. He said his brother continued to yell for him until the hole swallowed him. His headstone is right there in front of it. Absolutely heartbreaking. Seffner is very close to Tampa.
@@marlysmithsonian5746heartbreaking and terrifying!
That’s nightmare fuel. I want to live in the sky
I remember that!! I had just moved to Florida and had difficulties going to sleep at night.
That house just got devalued by 90%
It'll still sell for half a million.
190%
@@davidlafleche1142 Because 1 of the 90,000 realtor\finance guys in the area will scam an elderly couple into it.
why they just added a giant olympic size swimming pool 🤣
I wouldn't live their even it's free. You never know when the dirt is settled. What if it hasn't?
I wouldn't stay in that house!!! I'd be scared to go to sleep in there!
My hubby said one word. GREED. The developers, the builders, the permit people. They all knew.....
And hubby knows this how?
they just don't care.. 😯😯😯😡😡😡😡
The county and state governments.
agreed and yet the city officials get paid off not to say anything.
PoliTRICKS
House value went from $750K to $20K overnight.
I was thinking the same thing.😬
Wouldn't pay 5 thousand dollars for that property.
life is so unpredictable
Not entirely. A street full of homes in Tampa has an empty lot at the end of the street since the 80s. A sinkhole opened on that lot and the city won’t allow a home built on it, so its been vacant for decades. Homes on the street built for $49k in 1981 are selling for $280k today.
@@UnionAdvocate and people are stupid enough to pay 280k
Sinkholes are dangerous. There was once an incident where one morning neighbours woke up to find that their neighbour and her house had disappeared
Don't forget the man in Sefner that was swallowed up while asleep in bed. The whole opened up under his bedroom and only collapsed the floor in that room.
His family opened the door to the room to find a gaping hole in the ground and that was it.
Horrifying!
@@roguea987i will never forget that story. Then the sinkhole opened up AGAIN years after.
Not to mention the one that opened up in Winter Park back in 1981, taking out houses, swimming pools, businesses, and cars.
that reminds me of that show, a third for pinochle, trips are dangerous dear you see
Growing up in FL, many worried about sinkholes all the time watching the news, but that’s a massive and very frightening sink hole right there!
Yep sinkholes open up very huge in florida
What the Heck! You're right there and you didn't send a drone down the sinkhole to see what the bottom looks like?!👀
Its just a pit with a sandy bottom. All sinkholes fill the bottom in with debris and soil from the surface and the sides. When I was a kid we used to play in old dry sinkholes.
@@roguea987 Most of the 'debris' was probably washed away. In Florida, there are underground 'rivers' that are part of the structure holding the top landmass above the saturated areas underneath. When they pump out much of those 'rivers' the support is removed.
@@roguea987 Some of us are still looking for Jimmy Hoffa. We want more than just a sand filled sinkhole.
@@roguea987I'm glad you're still with us😮
@@TheTibetyakDidn't you see the movie " " The Irishman " ? Robbie Robertson, the Canadian Indian musician from The Band did the music. I know it's just a movie ,but maybe it has clues ?
That looks like a portal to hell!
Welcome to Florida! 😅
@@Aochiclol😅
Nah, you should see the hole in Russia. Scary AF with no _known_ (detected) bottom.
or aliens
Yeah, no way I want to live next to that. It looks like something could crawl out of that!
Sinkholes have always been a thing in Florida . The first I witnessed was in Casselberry in the early sixties that took 3 houses. Then the famous on in Winter Park in 1981 that took a house and several Porsches that had been parked at a repair shop . People were not hurt in those . The worst was one in 2013 where the guy was sleeping in his bed and it swallowed him , never to be seen again.
That was such a tragic case. His brother begged them to try to rescue his brother but it was too dangerous to even try. This incident scared the heck out of all of us Floridians.
Yup! Georgia also.
It's not a thing in KC ... just saying. And we have a better football team.
@@davidowens1424 where is KC ? Kansas or Kentucky ?
An other one in Kentucky swallowed a bunch of Corvettes!
Ouch, that is huge. Everyone stay safe, I remember that poor man that was sleeping when a sinkhole opened up under him.
Someone's house was being built right on top of that thing. That's scary.
Thank God no one was hurt!
lol no
😂😂🤦 what does god have to do with any of this ?? 🤦🤡
@@JtM8292Go ask God!
@@BT4EVER 🤣😂🤣 I know better than to waste my time ! 🫡
@@JtM8292..no lives was lost so we thank God...dont have an issue when people choose to praise God
Yet another reason not to move to Florida 😮
This is the main reason I decided against it!
@@iloveschicken6527 As a lifelong Floridian, Thank you both.
@@jrlove1815 LOL.
Oh ,come on now, you gotta get used to the skeeters,snakes,spiders,sinkholes,hurricanes,tornadoes,alligators,oppressive heat,arrogant newcomers and clusterfk housing, other than that,it’s just like everywhere.
@@jrlove1815I second this notion.
Looks like that lot had the framing to pour a slab. Good thing it happened now instead of after a house was built
good pickup!
Now the developer will have to shift the slab 20 feet to the right.
Forget her house, they were setting up the land where the sinkhole opened up to be a foundation for another home or building... They're just bringing in dirt, packing it and building. They should be doing some sort of survey for underground stability before starting foundations
You think a developer has time for that? Nah, the faster they build the faster they get money! Lol
@@michellem7300lol true
Yea no! 😂
_"Some sort of survey?"_ Is this a magical survey? How do you detect sinkholes underground? While you're at it, can you start detecting for earthquakes as well? 🤔
"Similar to other geological phenomenon like earthquakes, sinkholes tend to occur in specific geographic locations, but are almost impossible to predict."
@@grondhero true
Could you have a bigger banner? Blocks 25% of the video. It's not the 2000s anymore.
i dunno i cant see it, needs to be like 40% or bigger
How old do you think their average viewer is? Old people like big text.
I literally see the wHOLE video. 😂
It is 2024, it most certainly is, the 2000s...
@@GeneralPadron Good catch. I missed that. Lol
Why does he start with you don't expect this in your back yard?
If you live in Florida, you can expect anything to happen in the back yard.
Especially a sinkhole. I can't even remember how many I have seen over the past 56 years. One almost took out a friend's house in the 80 's.
🐊
@@luischarvet4516 ?
@@pitviper7924he said alligators🐊 are expected as well in your backyard
Including phytons and gators lol
Ugh, I feel for that homeowner because they will never be able to sell their home for a good price.
I will not buy it for free it's terrible
Ya or sleep at night! Lol😮
In northern Virginia the family across the road from a lady I worked for had their basement floor fall in a sink hole. Daughter was in the basement bouncing a ball the night before it happened. Karst spots in VA too.
Wow
God isn't a fan of basketball, missed the cutoff for overnight straight to the abyss shipping.
Poor woman. Her home is worthless now.
her home is in Florida, unfortunately it was worthless to begin with
lol what no it’s not
@@sarahfaith6531 Maybe you need to take a closer look at that massive gaping wound in the earth and ask yourself if it's done caving in, or if there's more space to fill.
You wouldn't live there if the house and were free.
Not to an investor who values a fabulous underground dungeon. It is Florida.
@@dumpstertelevision?
Well, that is a construction site.
It’s evident that there was a “Vibratory Roller” used to get compaction on the soil.
So, it’s a good thing this opened up now, and not after there is an occupied building on the property.
When you continue to allow huge developments in the State, this will happen.
Scientists know EXACTLY why sinkholes open up. There's no mystery.
Sign behind the reporter advertising 1/2 acre lots.
You too could own property (taxes) in the town of Wicky Wacky.
Half acre measured vertically
@@Novastar.SaberCombatit’s actually Weeki Watchee.
Google Florida sinkhole map and you will see where all sinkholes have occurred in Florida…
Literally "too close to home 🏡"; that massive 🕳️!!! Living on the edge has never felt so literal right now. I'd be frightened if my property were on that land.
What if there's one closer to the home😮🏡? There must be more sink 🕳️ s just waiting to concave. 🙏🏼 💯
We hardly have any rain and I live down the road from that property. Stop lying 😡
It flooded at my house in Spring Hill!
Researchers are trying to answer… it’s Florida. There’s your answer.
It was certainly wicky-wacky.
Sand is particularly unstable.
@@lindalcoomessand and limestone, both of which are heavily affected by water, and lack of water that has been diverted or used somewhere else.
Yup
They know the answer but the promoters pay them not to answer 😬
Did I see a sign for new homes there? They are going to build a new neighborhood around there? I thought geologists had to declare an area sinkhole safe before building anything?
Glad we moved out of Tampa in 1992 ... whew!! 😮 Wow!!!
GOT A COUSIN LIVES IN STUART
PEOPLE HAVE NO OR CANT GET HOME COVERAGE
PRICES ARE 5 FIGURES I HEARD
BOAT COVERAGE IS NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE
Remember the sinkhole that opened up in Florida underneath a home with people in it and swallowed up a man in his bed. That is terrifying and they couldn't find him.
I watch the world news every day. And every day it seems like I’m watching the scenes from a movie about the apocalypse.
@NathanHarrison7 It is because the media needs drama for views..... you have to do some of your own searches, like google or search CZcams for specific items.... Like..... nomads around the world, ancient architecture, how to grow food in your yard, fix a toilet, hair styles, meditation, fishing...... etc. Then you will see the world is actually a very cool place, right now!
News Flash: This entire area Weeki Wachee, Brooksville, Spring Hill have sink holes everywhere. Have for many years. Not news in Hernando County.
I’d be terrified
It's definitely wicky-wacky.
I don't think homeowner insurance will cover that.
There’s a specific insurance policy that’s available in some states to cover karst, but don’t know if it’s available in FL
So obviously neither of the reporters knows what they are looking at. The sandy lot with the hole is being built on. The forms for a new house are what is visible in the video of that sink hole. Had the house been erected it would have fallen into that hole. That builder and homeowner to be lucked out.
Yikes, that's a deep one, no more mowing the back lawn glad no one was hurt❤
Unreal. Scary. Crazy. The developers must have known something!
What did you expect to happen with all the water being sucked from below to supply too many houses?
You have to ask how this is possible when that land is just a few feet above sea level. Why is it not filled with water to sea level? What is holding back the water?
The surface of the land being near sea level doesn't necessarily mean there's not lots of earth between the land surface and the groundwater.
A neighboring development is apparently pumped 33 million gallons of water out of the aquifer over a short period of time.
It takes time for aquifers to refill. However for an opening like that, it's more likely there was a cave under the surface which finally got thin enough that the roof of the cave to collapse.
Dats a big ol hole!
Insurance companies loves those little stair step cracks every old house has so they can cancel your insurance.
How deep are sink holes!? I will never move to Florida 😭😭😭
Florida is sinking.
So is California
Actually, everywhere people are pumping water out of the ground is sinking.
Only the places where they pump the underground support system out of the area.
So is New York
@@allegra9967 if you mean NYC, I think the island sits on granite.
Why is a sinkhole always round?
The path of least resistance has no edges. Gravity takes everything around it and loses momentum the farther out it gets. Kind of like a funnel effect - tornados, for example.
Aliens
No mention of the depth or width or length of the hole. C'mon!
NEVER let your person or property on anything other than bedrock
Omg just the thought of my dogs running out back to use the restroom and falling into this!!!
Sinkhole alley , yeah that's a great place to build a development .
Any truth to a 4.2 quake happening in FL yesterday, June 16, 2024?
I would be worried
Nobody is asking, "Where did that massive amount of soil/sand go?"
It has to be a very large cavern below to swallow that amount of material.
Lotta sand in Florida and sink holes are common, especially after all the rain they've had
This one is absolutely expanding
"---a little bit unsettling"?? It's freaking terrifying. The people are super lucky it didn't swallow them and their house.
🎶there’s a hole in my yard that can only be filled by you 🎶 🤓
That's Deep
@@sctsh1491😆
Such an unfortunate title .. hehe
🫣🤣
Hahahahahahahahahahaha...
@the_peach75
😂
bruh
It’s not a natural sinkhole. People keep building with no repercussions of where the water will go. Look at the slop, that’s also newly excavated land…
I would pack up and leave immediately. Who can sleep knowing that happened.
I’d be thinking it’s time to move. I’d actually be scared to stay inside the home worrying the sinkhole might get bigger and swallow the entire house.
That would be an awful situation to be in.
Looks like they were trying to fill it before it collapsed.
imagine being the person who bought the land and started preparing their foundation. Their lot of land just dropped to zero. That's depressing because I highly doubt they had an insurance plan so early on in the development...
Florida must have a lots of lime stones deposits. Lime stones dissolve in water easily - that is how underground caves occurred. When the ground is saturated due to heavy rain, they dissolved and washed away with liquid water resulted in sink holes.
Does it seem to anyone else like they were attempting to push fill dirt into the sink hole? Why is there a large pile of dirt in the middle of that packed dirt foundation, right next to the hole?
Were they trying to fill it before it became massive? And if they we're trying to fill it, then who knows what else they'll try to get away with while building
is this the same hole we saw yesterday were they were ready to build new houses on mississippi kite ave?
Yes
Now they will have lake front property.
It's a swamp, don't build in a swamp
There are hundreds of underground natural water flows in florida. Sinkholes are the reason Orlando has 700 lakes and ponds
They know what causes it, they just have a hard time predicting it.
Sinkholes are a naturally occurring geological feature that is common in Florida. Much of our state sits on a bedrock of carbonate rock, primarily made of highly porous limestone. As water dissolves the limestone, it creates cracks and holes in the stone. The soil above then seeps down causing a pit to form.
SAME IN BOSTON!
@@samreynolds3789 Any land that is man made and sits on the water is going to have holes.
The value of this property dropped by more than half with this sinkhole! The soil of Florida is like a block of salt where water infiltrates and forms tunnels! The ground is weakened. It could be catastrophic, especially where there are a lot of buildings. Many people could lose their lives there 😬
What’s new?! This has been going on for decades!
whenever kids walk on the lawn their small feet have more impact as its high pressure on a small area. and the butter fly effect creates sinkholes. so keep those kids off your lawns.
😂😂
surely this is sarcasm
Ha Ha, Ray Bradbury would be proud of you for remembering him. I didn't know if he had kids or not !
How do you even fix something like that?
The one in Seffner, that took the life of the young man in bed, has opened at least 3 times. They had engineers and geologists and everyone out again and, again, they come up with this plan of gravel and dirt, our dirt is mostly sand, and they close it up again and grass over it. The brother is still so devastated, he has to be there every time it reopens. I cannot even imagine.
These can happen anywhere but Florida is especially prone.
Insurance companies must be running away from Florida at a high rate. How many more homes were built in these types of areas.
note to self!! stay clear of FLORIDA!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Deep underground there are rivers of water and as they flow they are taking tons of sand with it. Then the air pockets develop and that’s how the sinkhole starts
My earth science teacher told me years ago that Florida is basically swiss cheese with its aquifers and sinkholes will essentially sink the entire state.
He Telling The Truth
They also had an earthquake no one is reporting.
This area of Florida is under drought restrictions……see that beautiful green lawn….well that water came from the limestone caverns in the ground, under that house
….our soil is pure sand, and it’s really dry because of lack any any measurable rain for the last few months, south Florida is getting soaked…we haven’t.
….when they drilled the hole for the new irrigation well, on the empty lot….the sand flowed into the hole and filled the cavern that’s low or empty.
Those people over watering their lawn, is where the water went….until the rainy season is in full swing, every house in this area, it could happen.
It’s not a mystery hole, folks know why it happened, those pretty green lawn are part of the issue….
How deep is that hole? Scary
Insurance? Most policies don't cover sink holes...
I live down the road from this. They mine a lot of limestone in this area. It's also been bone dry in this particular pocket. Months without rain. There's the aquifer and caves. Hills. It's not like the beach area.
Outer Range in real life...
Some holes are bigger then others! I’ve observed!
This happens to much in Florida ! I would want to live there!! This is crazy !!
OMG! That house was lucky to be just outside the sinking area!
One of the things that lead to sinkholes, that many don't mention, are drilling a water well. They try convincing people that it's pumping to much water that causes it, but it's the actual drilling Into the aqufir that starts the domino effect. Cracks form around the drilled area, and chunks break off from the cavern ceiling, until it just collapses.
And they allow houses to be built in sink hole alley???
Nature’s way of cleaning up.
If I’m not mistaken that looks like the lot was recently cleared and getting ready to pour concrete on it? I wonder if there was equipment on that site that fell in?
Damn how big was her backyard 👀
What about Orlando Disneyland? There was a sinkhole that opened up on a motel across from the park leaving residents scrambling for new dwellings. And I don't think sinkholes are covered by insurance.
What a massive hole 🕳 and the sad thing is, this can happen anywhere, in any city.
I once heard in Florida that a massive sink hole 🕳 opened up, and swallowed a house and a guy was inside asleep and was never found.😢
The Crosstown Expressway is an elevated highway in the Tampa area. It makes me wonder if a sinkhole will eventually develop under one or more of those massive concrete pilings that support the highway.
Sink holes happens all over the world it's not just Florida, however it seems like it is more likely to happen in many parts of Florida and is a big concern for people who lives there.
WOW!
My parents had a beach ball sized one open at the end of the driveway near Lady Lake. They were real nervous until it was filled and patched, afraid it would grow in size.
My daughters GF bought a house in high springs. Brand new homes with sink holes popping up in the neighborhood. They just filled them with water and called them ponds!