SINK HOLES

[KateLMead]

Imagine stepping outside your door and disappearing down a sink hole Can someone explain how they come about,
It makes the mind boggle.

[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.

[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 ?

[Workingman]

It's the beginning of The Nothing, it is I tell you. Believe me, it is closing in......

[Rodo]

Australia here we come.

[Kaz]

Rodo that would be a bonus

[Rodo]

We would be illegal immigrants though!

[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.

[KateLMead]

Frightening, one opened up on the motorway. This is what nightmares are made of

[Workingman]

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.