Massive sinkhole opens up in Florida woman's backyard | Morning in America
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 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.
#Florida #WeekiWachee #sinkhole
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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!
This could happen where you live! No one is certain
@@sheilarodriguez7680 Yes, that is true, but that particular neighborhood in Florida has been known to have big sink holes
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
I grew up in Florida and the only thing I worried about was if there was a gator in our swimming hole. Florida is becoming a disaster and education dead zone.
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
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!
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 ?
Ouch, that is huge. Everyone stay safe, I remember that poor man that was sleeping when a sinkhole opened up under him.
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
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.
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.
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
Someone's house was being built right on top of that thing. That's scary.
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?
Scientists know EXACTLY why sinkholes open up. There's no mystery.
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
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.
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.
News Flash: This entire area Weeki Wachee, Brooksville, Spring Hill have sink holes everywhere. Have for many years. Not news in Hernando County.
Google Florida sinkhole map and you will see where all sinkholes have occurred in Florida…
You have to be careful using that map. They show a sink hole in Palm Beach county. I remember when that formed. It wasn't a sink hole, but a wash out from an over pass on I-95 that was added. They hadn't planted grass yet to hold the soil in place, and there was a heavy rain. Media didn't have any other word for it, so they called it a "sink hole". That's how several of those dots got put on that map. They're not all real sink holes.
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.
Insurance companies loves those little stair step cracks every old house has so they can cancel your insurance.
I’d be terrified
It's definitely wicky-wacky.
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. 🙏🏼 💯
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 😬
Dats a big ol hole!
Yikes, that's a deep one, no more mowing the back lawn glad no one was hurt❤
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
There are hundreds of underground natural water flows in florida. Sinkholes are the reason Orlando has 700 lakes and ponds
Wow. Apparently it’s more common in areas with heavy pollution and caused by acidic heavy rainfall.
Or maybe the rainfall caused the aquifer to wash out a salt dome?
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.
I would be worried
No mention of the depth or width or length of the hole. C'mon!
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...
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!
🎶there’s a hole in my yard that can only be filled by you 🎶 🤓
That's Deep
@@sctsh1491😆
Omg just the thought of my dogs running out back to use the restroom and falling into this!!!
Such an unfortunate title .. hehe
🫣🤣
Hahahahahahahahahahaha...
@the_peach75
😂
bruh
Unreal. Scary. Crazy. The developers must have known something!
When you continue to allow huge developments in the State, this will happen.
Now they will have lake front property.
Looks like they were trying to fill it before it collapsed.
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.
Miami is near sea level, but that's not true for most of the state. Large areas of central Florida are easily 70 to 90' above sea level. Also, ocean water doesn't sit under the state. That would be what is called salt water intrusion. That's bad when that happens. When salt water intrudes under Florida, it causes well pumps to rust, and the water is no longer drinkable (and the city has to make a new well further inland).
In most of Florida, there's an outflow of water from the state, into the ocean. You don't see that outflow, because it happens under ground. Fresh water comes from north Florida and Georgia and pushes out to sea under Florida.
Maybe in a little while, the new sink hole will fill with fresh water and it can be a pond. Or, it might remain dry. There are a few dry ones you can walk into. They are old and stable. Nothing to worry about.
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 😬
is this the same hole we saw yesterday were they were ready to build new houses on mississippi kite ave?
Yes
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
Any truth to a 4.2 quake happening in FL yesterday, June 16, 2024?
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….
Cave looks like under there
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 !
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
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.
Its all unstable sand stone. Happens a lot. One dude a while back in Florida went down in his bed and his brother tried to save him but he got swallowed up and never found. The whole area of his bedroom went down into a sinkhole. Buried alive. A horrible way to go.
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
What did you expect to happen with all the water being sucked from below to supply too many houses?
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.
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.
Humans have destroyed this poor planet.
@Jen-je3jo -Exactly !! And its going to get worse before better
as if sinkholes haven't been a natural phenomenon for literally eons. people are so clueless.
Some holes are bigger then others! I’ve observed!
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 RUclips 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!
"---a little bit unsettling"?? It's freaking terrifying. The people are super lucky it didn't swallow them and their house.
I live in Tampa, this is sorta normal. A few years ago we lost a Jeep Cherokee waiting for a stop light on Busch Blvd..
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
OMG hope everything is ok 😊
when the drone flies over the hole it looks like the entrance of a tunnel on either side, then they quickly change the shot so we can't really see the bottom of the hole. you blink you miss it kind of thing
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.
Outer Range in real life...
I would pack up and leave immediately. Who can sleep knowing that happened.
My God, it looks like a bottomless pit. Scary!
Odd, there is no ground water filling the hole. It looks deep enough to be below sea level for a lot areas near Tampa. I would expect fresh ground water to be pouring into the hole.
I expect that homeowner to get a cancelation notice from an insurance company.
Bet she is glad to be alive!
OMG! That house was lucky to be just outside the sinking area!
How deep is that hole? Scary
What is happening on that block of land before the hole??? Perhaps all the trees that were moved and the land cleared was a start , they keep the land together
That "dirt" doesn't look like dirt around my house here in Indiana which is a dark brown color - that dirt in Florida looks like it's made up of sand and dried out dirt of some kind.
Collapsing limestone. Always get a survey of what's under your home in Florida. Some parts are prone to collapse.
And they will continue to build there...
Marv: “wow, what a hole!”
Nature’s way of cleaning up.
Florida has been built on swamps and all the severe storms and just being that close to the Ocean 🌊 🌊
That ground has been wet for Centuries...
The more they keep building houses like crazy here is the more often this will happen
You can't tell where a sinkhole will develop, any more than you can tell where a tornado will hit. Everyone who has been in Florida (or other sinkhole-prone states) a long time knows there is a small chance any building is sitting on a future sinkhole. You take your chances, just like you take a chance a tornado, earthquake, or meteor will hit your location.
We have tall buildings, airports, hospitals, and schools sitting on land that could collapse, not just in Florida, but in Pennsylvania, Texas, Kentucky, and a couple of other states.
It wasnt waking up and seeing the hole. The company nailed a spike to build a foundation.
The spike lead to the ground caving in and than revealed itself. Just. Simple 2x4 spiked caused a massive sink holes false cap to cave. Not the homeowner stumbling on it. Plus it shows the lands integrity now
They are all over Georgia, I've seen one in person. Makes me change my life style very deep and scary
That's so crazy
I saw this tv show.
If you jump in, you can go back in time.
Not talking about local developers
Yeah in NH there are radon detectors in the basement attached to fans, in Florida you need a sinkhole detector to make sure you don't wake up drowning in the bottom of a 50 foot hole.
That's pretty common for that area of Florida.
I’d rather sleep in Kansas during a tornado warning than snooze away in my bed at night in “sinkhole alley “.
Stop developing. Stop building. It's Florida
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0:24 thought I heard something, had to listen closely 😂
I live 45 minutes from there, I have not heard of a sinkhole there. By the way Hernando Co . I'd on the westcoast.
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