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pete m
01-06-10, 11:53 AM
so you think theyre bad do you ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1283066/Guatemala-sink-hole-Tropical-storm-Agatha-blows-200ft-hole-city.html

well, now will you stop moaning ?:smt028
Lozzo
01-06-10, 11:59 AM
Impressive
keith_d
01-06-10, 01:06 PM
Looks like the Mail is about three years too late. Here's the original news footage from February 2007.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jhA5Gqridk

Keith.
thedonal
01-06-10, 03:10 PM
Nope- this is a new one, as per the BBC article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/latin_america/10200440.stm

Clearly, there is a problem with the foundations of Guatemala... Not a good place to be living right now...
dizzyblonde
01-06-10, 03:33 PM
:smt103

Looks like the aftermath of Superman falling to earth!
Viney
01-06-10, 04:02 PM
Thats big, but still not as bad as some on the Old Kent road!
Sid Squid
01-06-10, 04:41 PM
Looks like the Mail is about three years too late. Here's the original news footage from February 2007.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jhA5Gqridk

Keith.
Except that clearly isn't the same hole = you fail.

:D:D:D:D
thedonal
01-06-10, 05:38 PM
Just so long as one of these wasn't spotted climbing out of it-

http://fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca/files/2009/10/war-of-the-worlds3.jpg

Really put me in mind of that movie scene!

That, or a fricking HUGE mole!
beabert
01-06-10, 06:22 PM
how they gonna fill that lol
thedonal
01-06-10, 06:52 PM
Maybe they could pipe BP's oil slick into it- give something back!

Seriously, though- they'll have to fill it somehow. The risk of further collapses around the edge of the hole could be severe.

What was done with the 2007 hole?
beabert
01-06-10, 07:03 PM
"Typically, officials fill in sinkholes with large rocks and other debris. But the 2010 Guatemala sinkhole "is so huge that it's going to take a lot of fill material to fill it," Currens said."

last one was collpased storm drain.
pete m
01-06-10, 07:13 PM
Viney - you mean the one south bound coming up to Toys R Us - right in the middle of the outside lane ? i hit that so hard i thought the wheel was fecked f sure....
Viney
02-06-10, 07:30 AM
Viney - you mean the one south bound coming up to Toys R Us - right in the middle of the outside lane ? i hit that so hard i thought the wheel was fecked f sure....Thats the chicken. I have given up riding the OKR for that reason. I go round via Deptford now.
pete m
02-06-10, 11:41 AM
i thinnk they may have actually filled it in , praps TSM knows....:confused:

still backed up f miles round there of course, but theres been a few times when Surrey Quays way completely ground to a halt as well....and you are stuck down that (sink) hole ...:smt092
Viney
02-06-10, 11:43 AM
i thinnk they may have actually filled it in , praps TSM knows....:confused:

still backed up f miles round there of course, but theres been a few times when Surrey Quays way completely ground to a halt as well....and you are stuck down that (sink) hole ...:smt092Stuck! Erm, there is always the pavement ;):smt028