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Originally Posted by janmcn
The situation is so precarious and the ground so unstable that the rescuers can't get into the house. Even the technicians you see on TV walking around the yard are tethered to other firemen. They said they will have to demolish part of the house before they can get to the sinkhole.
So far they've been using radar and other devices to try to figure out how widespead the sinkhole is.
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Can you imagine the terror of that man as he was being swallowed up into the sinkhole. It was on all the major news shows this evening.
When we first heard about it this morning, I wondered why they couldn't attempt a rescue effort. Guess I was thinking of how they actually find people alive after earthquakes all over the world........a week later in some cases. However, my husband thinks that it would be basically sand and there would be "no air pockets" for the guy to survive in. Ultimately he would just suffocate????
Hopefully, the sinkholes in TV are NOT that large. Just the day before we finally came to our decision to set a target date to put our home on the market.....a year from this springtime.....as we have other committments this year which take precedence......before we relocate to The Villages.
Hopefully, the victim of the sinkhole didn't suffer too long and that the other families in that neighborhood find some peace of mind, as well as his brother & family.