Sinkhole swallows car in Rockville Centre

[hrmjustin]

Eyewitness News
ROCKVILLE CENTRE (WABC) -- Authorities are on the scene a woman's car ended up in a sinkhole in Rockville Centre.

The sinkhole opened in the rear of a home on Driscoll Avenue and swallowed the car.

The car has been removed from the ground and is now covered in mud.

The driver Gail, had just returned from running errands when the ground gave in and the car began to sink. She called 911 on her cell phone and authorities pulled her out without any injury.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/long_island&id=9440673

[House of Roberts]

1. I'm starting to think

that the man from Mars that eats the cars, shapeshifts into a sinkhole as a disguise lately!

[hrmjustin]

2. Makes sense considering whats been going on lately.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Build up of ground water can do some things

We've had about four such incidents in the UK of late.

[hrmjustin]

4. There was one in a car museum the other week in KY.

[dipsydoodle]

5. I saw that

and apparently GM have offfered to restore all of them.

I'll add a picture to my reply above of one of ours when I can get to the PC - dont know how to link using the tablet.

[hrmjustin]

6. I am on a tablet and have not figured it out either.

[dipsydoodle]

7. UK sinkhole pictures here

others here at main link : http://news.sky.com/story/1212867/fifth-sinkhole-in-a-month-for-flood-hit-uk

The Hemel Hempstead and Croxley Green ones are both very local to me. My area in general is a mixture of chalk and gravel - we're pretty close to where the last ice age ended and hence the gravel.

The picture of the Hemel one above mystifies me. Under our building regulations the footing on our houses are supposed to 600mm wide x 1m deep and the footing on that don't look that big.

Tablets - I've got the Galaxy 10.1 and the Note telephone. I've got Dummies Guides for both which I have yet to read. I only got the Note so's I could take pictures , write on them "wish you were here - NOT", and then post them on FB

[hrmjustin]

8. I imagine the floods in England will create more.

I saw a tweet that said some farm lands will take 2 years to recover.

I also heard the PM was getting blamed for the response.

[dipsydoodle]

9. This goes back years

to before Cameron became PM. You can't now suddenly build flood defenses - just plan ahead for them which I assume will now be done. Lots of woe is me complaints from those near the Thames blaming lack of dredging oblivious to the fact that dredging can' have some unfortunate side effects.

With regard "woe is me" - if you live in a house sandwiched between a known flood area of the Thames and disused gravel pits - what else did you really expect.

Biggest problem here is that of any flood plains being built on - just moves water from one place to another whilst aggregating the effect

The farm land referred to is the Somerset Plains and yes they probably will take that long to recover.

[hrmjustin]

10. The pictures on twitter are so sad.