Imagine stepping outside your door and disappearing down a sink hole Can someone explain how they come about, It makes the mind boggle.
Re: SINK HOLES
Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 09:22
by Rodo
Well I think it's the excess water draining into the ground over a long period that just washes away the subsoils. Something like that anyway.
Re: SINK HOLES
Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 09:40
by KateLMead
Just imagine stepping outside your front door and disappearing down a hole Rodo!!!! "don't know what my friend just over for coffee is laughing at"
wishful thinking ?
Re: SINK HOLES
Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 13:16
by Workingman
It's the beginning of The Nothing, it is I tell you. Believe me, it is closing in......
Re: SINK HOLES
Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 13:45
by Rodo
Australia here we come.
Re: SINK HOLES
Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 13:54
by Kaz
Rodo that would be a bonus
Re: SINK HOLES
Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 13:57
by Rodo
We would be illegal immigrants though!
Re: SINK HOLES
Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 16:21
by pederito1
One possible explanation is that they can occur in made up ground. In time the fill compacts leaving a void and when the earth above becomes too saturated to support itself it collapses. There must be a void for a sink hole to occur.
Re: SINK HOLES
Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 17:53
by KateLMead
Frightening, one opened up on the motorway. This is what nightmares are made of
Re: SINK HOLES
Posted: 16 Feb 2014, 19:23
by Workingman
Rodo wrote:We would be illegal immigrants though!
Well, if the Aussie authorities didn't get you The Nothing would, and, as Ped explained, you would be sucked into the void. If you were to run it would become a never ending story of trying to avoid the void.