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Originally Posted by Mortal1
impossible to decipher your words.
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Was easy to understand, to me.
Put the word "a" in there:
"Was there a street drain close?"
You can switch the words around:
"Was a street drain close, there?"
Or you can alter it just a tiny bit:
"Was a street drain nearby?"
He's basically suggesting that perhaps there was a drainage pipe issue.
Which, apparently, there was. A water pipe collapsed.
It wasn't a sink hole. It was a ground collapse. Sinkholes are a type of ground collapse caused primarily by nature - limestone sediment contracting and expanding and crumbling underground, causing pockets of space that eventually cause a cave-in. Other ground collapses are caused by overdevelopment, improper lining of retention ponds, badly-seated underground septic tanks, mining, broken sewer pipes, and so on.