A sinkhole swallowed bleachers, a light pole and 100 feet of soccer fields at Gordon Moore Park in Alton, Illinois on Wednesday.Surveillance video showed the...
growing up in FL, where the sinkholes are not due to mines, but natural processes, I had assumed all sinkhole formed from natural processes and this made them scary. void collapses rapidly underneath your house: adios!
but I guess dumbasses will build shit on top of extractive mines and be like "omg wha-happen" when that ends up doing the most obvious thing I the world.
I mean unless its really shallow building over mines is kind of inevitable and not unreasonable. But limestone mines specifically.... well limestone dissolves in water, so any change in drainage could undermine you and make the ground unstable I would think.
wack CCTV footage in there.
growing up in FL, where the sinkholes are not due to mines, but natural processes, I had assumed all sinkhole formed from natural processes and this made them scary. void collapses rapidly underneath your house: adios!
but I guess dumbasses will build shit on top of extractive mines and be like "omg wha-happen" when that ends up doing the most obvious thing I the world.
I mean unless its really shallow building over mines is kind of inevitable and not unreasonable. But limestone mines specifically.... well limestone dissolves in water, so any change in drainage could undermine you and make the ground unstable I would think.