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Old 05-02-2014, 10:37 AM
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I guess when the ground recently collapsed under the rotunda at the Corvette Musuem in Kentucky that wasn't a sinkhole either.

The incident in Kentucky was clearly an unexpected sinkhole. The incident in Baltimore, according to news reports, was a wall collapse which had been a problem for years. The cars slid onto railroad tracks, not into a sinkhole.

The 65 feet wide by 70 feet deep sinkhole in Buttonwood, which happened the week before Easter, was a classic sinkhole. If the sinkhole had been located a few feet either way, one or both of the houses could have collapsed into it.

The president of the company that did the restoration work in Buttonwood, Jay Silver of Helicon Property Restoration, said this morning that the Buttonwood homes are not "out of the woods yet".