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WESH2 and Channel 9 both reporting from there live on the 10 o'clock news. I'm sure it will be on again at 11.
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I am bumping this thread to bring it to the top for Senior Citizen. I think she missed it and wasn't aware we all were aware of this very sad thing. Both homeowners are snowbirds and aren't here right now so thankfully they are not displaced. Hopefully the caravan of cement trucks going on through the night is helping to remedy this. |
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This latest sink hole (which I posted a similar pic of earlier on the other sink hole thread, earlier this morning) is extremely frightening, to say the least. It's not a little mud puddle. It's nothing to pooh pooh over......esp. when people have invested so much money into their homes.......not to mention, it is not good for our own peace of mind and mental health...........
I keep thinking of that poor man in Brandon, Florida (near Tampa) who was swallowed up while sleeping, last year........so "Who knows for sure if it cannot happen under one's home".......or not. We are not God. A sink hole swallowed him up, bed and all and they could not reach him. The nightmare which his family went through is unimaginable. I think it is good that people post the names of the villages where they have occurred in the past.........ditto for the television news and the major Florida newspapers. It's actually all over the internet..........so no big secret, except to those of us out of state who have only heard about them in the last several years. Prior to that, we had never ever heard of sinkholes..........but then we only vacationed on the coasts except for Disney World......and even Orlando had a super big one last year, whereby the resort was literally collapsing into the ground due to a major sinkhole. Prospective home buyers have a "need to know" and disclosure should be made, not hidden in the dark shadows of secrecy.........to protect whom? It is scary, to say the least. If you keep looking, they've happened all over Florida except on the barrier islands.............but for the most part, they are prevalent in CENTRAL FLORIDA out to the western part of the state. Buyer beware. At our age, who needs home damage, no matter how small it might look.............it's not a good sign of what's going on under the earth. After seeing the landslides of late out west..........perhaps it just makes some of us jittery............and intelligent enough to want to check it out.......not negative or having our heads in the sand. We are too old for that. Too wise and too old to just want a peaceful existence in our older years. Who needs the excitement of having the earth beneath your home.......or to the side of your home........or to the front of your home, or back of your home, swallowed up??? http://www.ccfj.net/HOAvillsinkhole.htm Click hyperlink above for a past sinkhole; yes, a dozen years ago, but still relevant to those of us wanting to buy a used home. Also read the one below this article......."Sinkholes plague the villages"...its the link at the bottom of the page (of above hyperlink). You can find others, and thus know whereabouts they have occurred. All of the major newspapers and t.v. channels covered the ones in the past as well as the ones happening currently. |
If sinkholes are a major concern to folks that are considering a move to Florida, perhaps they should just give up on that idea. Every area of the country has something to be fearful of. You cannot worry about something that you cannot control.
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They can happen anywhere. Just before we moved here from MA (we lived on the RI border) there was a big one that swallowed up part of a strip mall. I remember the drugstore was on the end and the first to sink. It was after a major rainstorm.
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I guess we can eliminate the conspiracy theory.
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I will take living in FL with sinkholes and hurricanes any day over living in California with earthquakes waiting for the "big one".
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The Good News is that they are reporting that the mixture of sand and asphalt, 40 trucks worth, that was poured into the hole has stabilized the homes and they should be to shore up the foundations properly on Monday.
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will be some real bargins on homes for sale in that area! home values will plumett in that area till the next big sinkhole happens! last summer they almost lost the bridge that goes over lake sumpter to a sinhole on the south end!
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Who pays for filling the sink hole? I know homeowners insurance covers catastrophic loss due to sinkhole, but what about all those truck loads of concrete being dumped into this new hole. Who pays for that?
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Don't most, if not all HO policies cover sinkhole damage to the structure?
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There was recently a large sink hole in Kentucky that swallowed up a large number of Corvettes in the Covette Mueseum. Sink holes are more preveloent in Florida but can happen anywhere. Of course we have hurricanes and sink holes here but other areas have them as well. I don't think it has ever been a secret that our area is prone to sink holes. We first visited here in 2000 and it was on the news about 2 homes damaged in Lady Lake by a sink hole.
Other areas have earth quakes, tornados, floods, etc, landslides, etc. your safety cannot be guaranteed in any home because there are fires, gas leaks, carbon monoxide, etc. I do not choose to put my head in the sand but I also do not choose to live life in perpetual fear of some unknow catastrophe. |
sink hole in Kentucky that swallowed up a large number of Corvettes in the Covette Mueseum"
Yes, but if I remember correctly they were man made (city water main leaking) and just like the Big one in Central America I think what determined that one. Florida sinkholes IMO are natural disaster's due to the makeup of the earth under Florida just like Hurricane's, Hail, wind, wild fires, tornado's IMO. |
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The Easter sunday copy of our daily sun local paper has a front page article about sink holes and says that a sinkhole in the 2000 block of chalmer terrace in TV had been under repair for the past 3 weeks but just got bigger, but homeowners are apparently snowbirds, not home when it sank, and no lives lost.
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This news has travelled VERY fast. Last night I got an email from a good friend in upstate NY asking me if we lived anywhere near this. He had seen it on a story on one of his local TV stations. This is going to throw a great big wrench in The Villages Myth-Making Machine.
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Myth-Making Machine? Gary Morse isn't in charge of natural disasters. West of us is even worse for sinkholes. Tampa is the worst. See here? http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...p1954-2004.jpg |
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https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...sinking-34024/ This was discussed on this forum back in 2010. There are other threads on the subject, just do a search. |
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If you believe this article, South Florida will be an island. :22yikes:
Maybe we will have waterfront property soon. Massive Sinkhole Threatens to Rip Florida in Half*|*GlossyNews.com |
The sink hole in he 2000 block of Chalmers terrace in V was under repair for 3 weeks by a pro firm but it opened up again.
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Sink Holes are just part of living in Florida. They can happen anywhere at anytime. More so after large amounts of rain. The Lime Stone under the sand we are living on gets soft and collapses into the aquifer below. Just like sand in a hour glass afer that.
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No one knows or can predict when a sinkhole or catastrophic ground collapse will occur. It can happen anywhere.
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I must be missing something, but I don't see a scratch on either house. A catastrophic ground collapse occurs when a house falls into the sinkhole, which is what happened in Seffner when that unfortunate young man was sucked right out of his bed into the hole and his house plus the two adjacent houses were torn down. Somebody's insurance company just paid tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to have that hole filled. It's very doubtful they would turn around and pay another couple hundred thousand plus for the house and have it demolished and hauled away. Insurance companies in Florida don't like paying money on claims. In fact, Citizens, the state run insurance, spent more money last year fighting claims than they did paying claims. |
Thoughts go out to those involved. It must be so scary to have to go through something like this. Hope the involved families have some support.
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If you start eliminating all the areas that have natural disasters there's not many other places to go. It's how the repair is handled (speed and quality) that is more important to someone looking to buy (in my opinion).
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