Yul Lose Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 That would give me a reason to watch soccer…………..the expanding sinkhole would have more action than a soccer game.
Cypress Sun Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 What got me was the pole light. That pole light was at least a 45' to 50" pole with multiple 1,000 watt fixtures on it...gone, just disappeared into the ground without any visible trace. Weird.
Pat Riot Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 Jees H. Keeeriste how can two women sound like there’s a room full of them? Sonofa…. It’s too early for that crap. Need more coffee. I gotta go…
Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 7 hours ago, Yul Lose said: That would give me a reason to watch soccer…………..the expanding sinkhole would have more action than a soccer game. That’s funny but thank God no one was playing. There would have been some serious injuries or worse!
Alpo Posted June 28, 2024 Author Posted June 28, 2024 They said the hole is 100 ft across and 45 ft deep, and they're talking about fixing it. How do you fix a sinkhole? That something like 120,000 cubic feet of emptiness.
Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 25 minutes ago, Alpo said: They said the hole is 100 ft across and 45 ft deep, and they're talking about fixing it. How do you fix a sinkhole? That something like 120,000 cubic feet of emptiness. Lots and lots of dirt!!!
Cypress Sun Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Lots and lots of dirt!!! And that's just for the visible hole. I can't even fathom the cavern underneath the hole's size. Gotta get that or otherwise you're just pouring dirt into a funnel. Don't forget the concrete! Somehow, I picture a pond where the soccer field once was.
DeaconKC Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 Considering the area, it is probably from mine subsidence. Getting to be a regular problem in the Southern parts of Illinois due to the extensive coal mining of the past. Usually not this drastic, and actually seeing it happen was bone chilling.
Alpo Posted June 28, 2024 Author Posted June 28, 2024 It was a limestone mine underneath the field. That says to me that there is a tunnel, probably going in both directions from the hole. And they pour in dirt and they pour in concrete and it's going to try to fill up the tunnel before it tries to fill up the hole.
Pat Riot Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 Is that field Astro Turf, or whatever it’s called these days? The grass looks like carpet on a collapsed floor.
DeaconKC Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 Yeah, it's got to be Astroturf of some sort... just wow...
Eyesa Horg Posted June 28, 2024 Posted June 28, 2024 1 hour ago, Alpo said: It was a limestone mine underneath the field. That says to me that there is a tunnel, probably going in both directions from the hole. And they pour in dirt and they pour in concrete and it's going to try to fill up the tunnel before it tries to fill up the hole. Sounded like it's still a working mine, believe they mentioned that all miners got out without injury.
Oak Ridge Regulator Posted June 29, 2024 Posted June 29, 2024 That’s actually just a baby, if you want to see what happens when a mine collapses look at the salt mine collapse in Lake Peigneur Louisiana in 1980. There are a lot of videos on line and it’s really impressive to say the least
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