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April 24, 2006
Holed Everything!
A large sink hole opened in the middle of a house, killing a 27-year-old man who plummeted 10 feet and was covered by the rubble, officials said Sunday.The two-story home, built in the 1980s, might have been sitting atop a decades-old underground mine, authorities said. Recent rains possibly softened the ground under the home, in an isolated area near Lake Alta, northeast of Sacramento.
“It’s unbelievable,” Placer County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Dena Erwin said. “From the front of the house, it’s absolutely normal. Then, in the middle of the house, is this enormous hole.”
Dang!! Poor guy. I thought that stuff only happened in South Florida...
Posted by tree hugging sister at April 24, 2006 10:28 AM
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Oh no, it happens in PA and WV alla time. Once in a while the old coal shafts catch fire, too, so you've got toxic gas coming out of the sinkholes, sometimes even heating the ground sos you'd think that a volcano is about to erupt.
Posted by: John at April 24, 2006 12:52 PM
Suburban renewal.
Double entendre that!
Posted by: Cullen at April 24, 2006 01:13 PM
...underground mine...
As opposed to an aboveground mine?
The poor guy though. How awful.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 24, 2006 02:13 PM
As opposed to strip-mine, smart-ass. I can see y'arn't from around here, boy...
Posted by: John at April 24, 2006 02:38 PM
He don't have much a mine a'tall, no how, John...
Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 24, 2006 02:54 PM
Air mine?
I'm on Cloud Mine?
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 24, 2006 02:55 PM
There's a lot of stuff like that up in the Sierras, and some still-working mines. You can tell they're still busy gettin' gold by the guy with a shotgun behind a 12-foot barbwire-topped chainlink fence re-enforced with sections of criss-crossing pipe and a couple mean dogs. The pot-farmers don't bother with the chainlink.
Posted by: -keith in silicon valley at April 24, 2006 07:10 PM