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Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
We've seen this movie before. So before northerners claim "we don't have such a thing here in OUR state (translated "paradise...never mind the sliding ice mountain on the roof")" and "Florida is nothing but hot, buggy, swampy and full of sinkholes…", consider:
Neighbor-retired engineer: "I’ve had a lot of experience with sinkholes. We used to have them at least once a year on our 180 acre Harley manufacturing property in Pennsylvania — often in the parking lot."
Map showing the U.S. sinkhole areas:
US sinkhole map - Map of sinkholes in the US |
http://www.myfloridacfo.com/Division.../Sinkholes.pdf
The big difference is that in other states residents are able to buy sinkhole insurance which is not always the case in Florida. If these residents don't have separate sinkhole coverage, their catastrophic ground collapse coverage will not cover the cost of filling this hole because the house is not deemed uninhabitable.