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00:04sinkholes they can be sudden catastrophic and deadly open the door there was no floor there
00:12everything was gone swear I could hear him hollering for me Jeremy helping and the numbers
00:18are rising all over the world even in Britain man just said that sinkhole in the back garden
00:26you've got to leave got to evacuate you've got 15 minutes to pack a bag and go with holes hitting
00:30the headlines when they did finally get to the bottom of the hole it was 80 feet deep time and
00:36time again but some places suffer more sinkholes than others this is what it's like to live in a
00:48sinkhole hotspot you're actually seeing people's whole lives really floating on the surface can't
00:55help but feel for people that are going through that on the night of the 9th of November 2016 Ripon
01:19Fire Service's blue watch was called out to an emergency something was wrong on Magdalene's Road
01:29Doreen Ellis was one of the first to get a knock on the door we were in bed sleep and
01:37there was a big
01:38knocking knocking on the front door hi sorry to disturb you and we called out to a sinkhole around
01:43the back man just said that sinkhole in the back garden got to evacuate you've got 15 minutes to pack
01:48a bag and go this is the colossal damage of a sinkhole which swallowed up gardens on Magdalene's Road in
01:58Ripon late on Wednesday night the ground had opened up beneath four gardens the hole was 30 feet deep and
02:07big
02:07enough to swallow a tennis court Peter Lister and Julia Osler were away when the sinkhole struck so
02:15the first they knew about it was when they saw it on TV we came up to the property to
02:22find the police
02:23the fire brigade the road blocked off because the sinkhole was still still moving I was shocked it was
02:31bigger than I expected it to be four homes were perilously close to the edge of the sinkhole and
02:37no one knew how much closer the hole might get all the garden next door was a wildlife garden and
02:43she
02:43lost all of that one of the garages had fallen in several of the outhouses had fallen in the trees
02:50the
02:50bushes the fences all fell into it the woman that lived up there was very lucky to be alive sure
02:56she
02:56came out my back garden went down the step I put one foot down and then I realized that the
03:02steps
03:03were moving I turned around and grabbed hold of a pole pull myself back up and and went quickly back
03:12into the house I think she's the luckiest woman alive I've never known anyone come so close ten houses on
03:20Magdalene's Road were quickly evacuated but the hole was still growing after about the second the
03:27third day we started getting concentric rings which actually went all the way up to the corner there
03:35where they where the bin is there but started growing and growing as days went by and growing and
03:41growing with the crack spreading many residents feared the worst this was the kind of thing that normally see
03:49on television you can see gravel dirt and roots inside this perfectly symmetrical sinkhole happening
03:57in another part of the world stories of holes opening up in faraway places swallowing people cars and
04:05buildings the building was collapsing around us our room itself is over 100 feet underground now
04:14Rippon was in the news and for the second time in two years because in 2014 another hole had opened
04:22up just around the corner in Magdalene's close and that one split a house in two last night a 25
04:31foot
04:31sinkhole opened up under this home in North Yorkshire and there was no time to stand and watch it actually
04:37started coming away I could hear it coming away above my head it was just creaking and cracking and
04:43fumbling and the couple living here were lucky because this hole sank slowly giving them time to get
04:50out but when sinkholes collapse suddenly under houses the results can be deadly Florida is the sinkhole
05:01capital of the world and Sefner in Hillsborough County lies right in the middle of so-called sinkhole alley
05:09a place that's notorious for one of the most shocking sinkhole disasters of recent times
05:19February the 28th 2013 was an ordinary day in this quiet town near Tampa Jeremy Bush had just returned
05:27home from work when my room started eating and heard his loud loud noise sound like a train or a
05:35car
05:35something's hit the house the sound Jeremy had heard was the concrete floor of his brother's bedroom
05:45collapsing I ran towards my brother's room open the door and there was no floor there everything was gone
05:55Jeremy's wife Rachel and her aunt Janelle wicker were also in the house you heard him screaming help and
06:03we ran out down the hallway a sinkhole had swallowed everything in the room including 37 year-old
06:12to Jeff Bush
06:14all you could smell in the house was like fresh dirt everything was just like churning on top of it
06:20I'd jump in the hall swear I could hear him hollering for me Jeremy help me
06:26there was I was digging with my hands
06:31there wasn't nothing I can do
06:34as Jeremy tried to save his brother Rachel dialed 911
06:38I need an ambulance and the top buddy stuck underneath the house the house just fell through
06:44okay and what happened to the house
06:47the bedroom floor just collapsed and my brother-in-law is in there he's underneath the house
06:52the emergency services arrived within minutes but time was running out for Jeff with the hole expanding a police officer
07:00pulled Jeremy from the room
07:01as I'm getting out of the hole the holes collapsing
07:09there was nothing I could do
07:14the police and fire crews brought in specialist equipment to search for Jeff Bush and try to save him
07:21all the family could do now was watch and wait
07:40what happened to the house
07:42the bedroom floor just collapsed and my brother-in-law is in there he's underneath the house
07:48this 911 call was made moments after 37 year old Jeff Bush was swallowed by a sinkhole
07:55the hole had ripped open right underneath his bedroom
08:00in a final attempt to locate Jeff and pull him out the police sent in specialist equipment
08:07behind
08:08while Jeff's brother Jeremy watched on with his wife Rachel
08:10and her aunt Janelle
08:13the hole opened up and took their equipment down the camera and everything
08:16so then everything stopped
08:18because the hole was still growing
08:21nobody did anything
08:24nobody
08:25no one really even tried to rescue my brother with me
08:36he's still down there
08:48the memory of Jeff's death is hard to live with
08:52but they also live with the knowledge that things could have been even worse
08:57too much prior to this my daughter was in that room
09:02so it could have been all of us at one point and not just him
09:05yeah
09:13the house was later demolished along with two houses on either side
09:17now there is nothing but fenced off wasteland
09:21a wasteland that hides the sinkhole that swallowed Jeff Bush and buried him alive
09:26that is my brother's last resting place
09:29I came out here on his anniversary when it happened
09:32I come out here on his birthday
09:35it's hard when I do it man
09:39I love him
09:41I wanted to know that I tried everything I could to get him out
09:45do everything I could
09:52Florida is full of holes
09:55with new ones appearing every week
09:57so in this part of the world a sinkhole expert is always busy
10:02David Wilshaw is a British geologist living in Florida
10:05in the 13 years he's been here
10:07he's worked on more than a thousand sinkhole cases
10:11well if you want to see a great example of a sinkhole
10:15here in Florida
10:16the Devil's Millhopper Geologic State Park is a place to come
10:20because here we have a monster of a sinkhole
10:23it's 500 feet across
10:24120 feet deep
10:30the Devil's Millhopper gets its name from the gruesome remains that can be found here
10:35because when this ancient sinkhole formed
10:37it filled with the fossils of strange beasts and creatures
10:42when early
10:44explorers came down here
10:45they found this
10:46millhopper shaped hole in the ground
10:48and at the bottom of it was a
10:50bunch of bones and teeth
10:52particularly sharks teeth
10:53with a lot of sabre-toothed cats
10:56mastodons
10:57things of that nature
10:57those bones all washed down
10:59to the bottom here
11:00where the Devil had been doing his evil work
11:03and these are the
11:04the remains of
11:06poor creatures that lived in the past
11:07and they were subjected to the
11:09the Devil's torment
11:10this is kind of like the River Styx
11:12if you like
11:12the pond at the bottom
11:14which is always present
11:19the boulders at the bottom of Devil's Millhopper
11:21are made of limestone
11:22the rock that lies beneath the hole of Florida
11:26it's a hard rock
11:27but it dissolves in acidic rainwater
11:31over time
11:32water flowing through the cracks
11:33eventually forms caverns underground
11:36and when a cavern can no longer bear the weight of the rock and soil above
11:40it collapses
11:41and forms a sinkhole
11:44this is not by any means the largest sinkhole in Florida
11:47there have been historically enormous sinkholes
11:49some of the very large lakes we see in Florida
11:51are extremely large
11:53miles across almost
11:54you know so they can vary in scale
11:57and the scale depends upon
11:58how big the hole in the rock is
12:00into which the soil can move
12:02if it's a big enough hole
12:04and it can take enough of the soil that sits above it
12:06then you're going to get a very large sinkhole
12:16the rock and the rock is all along
12:16Rippon in North Yorkshire
12:18has the same kind of rock problems as Florida
12:21so all around there are signs of sinkholes past
12:25if you look to the left you can see in the field there there's some depressions which
12:28when you look at the mapping relate to historic events ian spears is harrogate borough council's
12:36emergency planner one of the first people on the scene for the sinkholes in 2016 and 2014
12:43coming up on the right we've got the entrance into the old auction mart and that's where the
12:47the property was seated that had the issues in magdalene's close in 2014
12:54that sinkhole formed beneath this house it was 36 feet wide and 50 feet long and it ripped the
13:00house apart as the occupiers fled that was just up here and you can see now that the the building
13:07was
13:08demolished and thankfully none of the other properties were affected but the chap had left
13:15his dog in the house when he'd come out so the big concern was whether it's safe to to get
13:20the dog out
13:20the residents had managed to escape but there was a problem blue watch manager kenny beck took the
13:27decision to go back inside and rescue the dog well as we went and you could see undulations in the
13:32ground cracks appearing in the ground and the greenhouse had started to fall in on itself so
13:36it was a quick dashing grab the dog quick dash out and then calling off the area and evacuate all
13:41the
13:41immediate vicinity today the land where the house once stood is part of a large field close to rip in
13:48city center land that would normally be ripe for development but just one week before the house
13:54cracking sinkhole plans to build 75 new homes here were rejected for fear of what lies beneath
14:04geologist dr. Anthony Cooper is the leading expert on what lies beneath ripon he's been studying the
14:10area for 40 years and drawn up a detailed sinkhole map of the city those ones that have quite recent
14:17also have other ones near them that have occurred in the 70s and 80s so the area is pretty well
14:22riddled
14:22with sinkholes this part of yorkshire is a sinkhole hotspot with the british geological survey rating
14:29at one of the uk's most susceptible areas for sinkholes these sinkholes a lot of them are in lines those
14:36lines relate to the pattern of caves that have formed under ripon and are continuing to get larger and
14:42subsequently collapse so what causes the caves under written and why do these caves create such
14:48dramatic sinkholes the answer is found on the banks of the river yore just like florida this part of
14:57yorkshire is built on rock that dissolves in acidic rainwater but while florida has limestone ripon has
15:04gypsum gypsum dissolves about a thousand times faster than limestone this has come off the gypsum cliff
15:11behind us and just been carried across by the river it shows the typical dissolution effects that you
15:16get of water flowing over a soluble rock if i put this rock in the river it would only last
15:22a matter
15:22of about three weeks before it dissolved away completely when that dissolving process happens
15:30underground it can create caverns and when a gypsum cavern collapses it can be sudden and shocking
15:38well we're just standing next to a sinkhole that occurred suddenly in 1939 it's about 18 meters across
15:45nine meters deep there was no trace of it here before and the gamekeeper who was in the wood at
15:49the time came out very fast when they suddenly appeared if this sort of collapse occurred under a
15:55house it would be catastrophic in Magdalene's Road the sinkhole of 2016 swallowed garages and sheds but
16:04stopped just short of the houses but now the residents had another ordeal to get through months
16:10of uncertainty until their gardens were repaired and their homes were safe to return to we could
16:16see from our windows exactly what was going on and how it progressed from putting in the initial
16:21concrete and putting in tons and tons and tons of normal concrete on top of it and then tons and
16:28tons and tons of rock went on top as well watching the work it seems so slow and laborious but
16:34they
16:34could only do so much of time apparently they had to fill it then leave it settle it check it
16:39measure it
16:39and then come back and do it all over again four to six months it took them to get all
16:43that done
16:45the repair work also included sensors that monitor movement of the land below but now the residents need
16:51to know for certain that the ground all around is as solid as it looks whether it's good news or
16:57bad
16:58news we need to know we don't want it to happen in our own backyard again but obviously it is
17:02going to
17:02happen again in Ripon because Ripon's a sinkhole area Ripon is a city with a history of sinkholes but
17:11it's by no means the only one after the rain and the floods it seems the latest curse of Britain's
17:20wet
17:21weather is the sinkhole there have been six reported cases already this year and part of the central
17:27reservation gave way along the M2 last week more and more sinkholes have been appearing across the UK
17:33causing havoc and mayhem for homeowners and motorists all over the land in High Wycombe a car on a driveway
17:40was swallowed up and buried and hitting the headlines like never before our daughter Zoe was in absolute
17:47hysterics having realized that her car had disappeared into a hole many of those holes appeared in the
17:53chalky land of the southeast of England with one of the biggest holes opening up in the Hertfordshire town
17:59of Hemel Hempstead the hole was 35 feet wide and 20 feet deep a sudden and shocking development for
18:09local resident Martin Boater we were woken up at half post 7 in the morning by a policeman I'm saying
18:18that we need to get ready we need to evacuate you very quickly it was right under the road and
18:22goes
18:23right under the house so it's clearly very dangerous at this moment in time he proceeded to tell us there's
18:28a sinkhole that's opened up at the end of our road and we need to evacuate you due to the
18:32fact that
18:32there's a possible gas leak and potential explosion it looked like a serial murder scene because you
18:39sort of had police officers putting up tape the sinkhole are taking out all the electrics the water
18:44the gas that stopped the supply to all the houses they then found another void there was thoughts that
18:49there could be a void under my house there were thoughts of void under the neighbor's house and all
18:53sorts of things started to sort of go through everyone's mind it was a nightmare scenario for everyone
18:59on the street with no power and no heating in the middle of February and with the whole sinking
19:05in the danger rising the police evacuated 48 households you've got the wife in tears and the
19:13kids in tears and you know all with all we want to do is just get into a bed Martin
19:18was told that
19:19the disruption to his family's life would last for about a week but that week of uncertainty turned
19:24into months and months of chaos in the space of nine months we had moved 11 times the building
19:32closest to the hole had to be demolished and rebuilt so when the Bota family returned to their house they
19:38faced another two years of disruption the experience didn't stop as we moved into the door there was
19:45still that bit afterwards where they was demolishing the house and rebuilding the house and the driveway in
19:50and out of the cul-de-sac was relayed and dug up and relayed and dug up and relayed when
19:55we moved
19:55back home my son he sort of had these pieces of tissue on the on the carpet and I said
20:01Carter what
20:02is what is that and he said no no I'm playing sinkholes daddy and that to me was a telling
20:07memory in terms
20:08of not many kids would sort of grow up wanting to play sinkholes you know with the sinkhole eventually
20:14filled in and the buildings and road repaired life in Oak Ridge Gardens is now back to normal but in
20:222017 just around the corner a second sinkhole opened up closing another Hemel Hempstead Road for months
20:32because with sinkholes lightning can strike twice in the same place two years after the Florida sinkhole
20:41that killed Jeff Bush the land here opened up a second time daylight revealed a painful reminder
20:48for neighbors the very same sinkhole that took the life of Jeffrey Bush in February 2013 collapsed again
20:54it's been filled twice or three times but gravel already and it still looks like it's gone down more
21:03tragedies like the death of Jeff Bush are a shocking reminder to Floridians of the dangers that lurk beneath
21:08the surface here because sinkholes in Florida are a fact of life with hundreds opening up every year
21:23so what's it like to see a huge sinkhole rip through your neighborhood all of a sudden a little hole
21:29grows
21:29into a giant hole a home gets taken a second home gets taken then all of a sudden the back
21:34properties
21:34affected you know within a minute you're in the middle of a worldwide story and what happens
21:40when a double-decker bus meets a sinkhole it did fracture the gas mine one spot would have done it
21:59on the third of March 1988 bus driver Jim Peitling set off for what he thought would be another normal
22:05day in Norfolk
22:08in fact he was about to park Norwich smack bang in the middle of the sinkhole map of the world
22:13I was
22:15on a normal day's work and it turned into an extra ordinary day's work really I was on my last
22:22run of
22:22the day I had let a ready Crete lorry go past me about 15 to 20 yards past the bus
22:29stop the bus stopped
22:36it was a terrible grating noise of metal against something and I didn't know what it was when I
22:43looked out of the back of the bus there was any road around the back wheels Jim got his passengers
22:49off as
22:50quickly as he could and it was just as well because the bus was sinking fast the bus was just
23:02about two
23:03to three feet off of the ground it was held in that position by a gas main but once the
23:08gas main fractured
23:09it suddenly finished up in the final position like that suddenly Norwich was headline news and all
23:21because a burst water main triggered the collapse of an old chalk tunnel beneath the road creating
23:25the sinkhole that was eating Jim's bus just heard there is quite a gas leak apparently yes and I would
23:33like to get away from the interview to be able to see what it's all about we were very very
23:37fortunate there
23:38wasn't an explosion thank goodness you had no smoking signs on the bus oh absolutely one spark would
23:44have done it so it was we were very very fortunate luckily the bus didn't terminate here it was hoisted
23:52out repaired and Jim drove it many times afterwards and for a while he was the most popular man in
24:01Norwich at least among his workmates shortly after the bus went down the hole Cadbury's put an advert in
24:09the paper with the slogan nothing kills a hole like a double decker and they did send some double decker
24:16bars to all of the lads on the buses in Norwich so yeah everybody did get a double decker bar
24:22out of it
24:23anyway even though the internet didn't exist back in 1988 that picture of the bus in the sinkhole went
24:29viral that image is the thing that was actually sold the story I'm sure it has it went around the
24:35world
24:36whether my name went with it to everywhere I don't know but it's certainly I'm so certainly quite well
24:41known in Norwich a vehicle munching sinkhole that did go viral on the internet was this one in Kentucky in
24:512014 it didn't open up in a road it opened up in a museum and it didn't swallow a bus
24:59it swallowed eight
25:00classic Chevrolet Corvettes
25:09the hole destroyed around 1 million dollars worth of collectible cars but this nightmare at the museum took an
25:16unexpected turn the sinkhole was a big attraction the museum doubled its visitors as more and more people
25:24came to see the hole and the crazy car crash it had caused it was beyond anything I'd expected just
25:33the
25:33size and I guess the depth of it while many sinkholes are big enough to swallow cars sinkholes that can
25:41swallow a house or two are rare even in Florida but in 2017 that's exactly what happened here back in
25:51the so-called sinkhole alley Atlanta Lakes Pasco County just north of Tampa there's a sinkhole right
25:59next to our neighbor's house and it's literally eating the house when the 911 call came through Kevin
26:07Guthrie coordinated the emergency response to one of the biggest sinkholes this county had seen for
26:12decades on July the 14th at about 7 30 in the morning we received a 911 call saying that the
26:18ground
26:18was opening up at the residence there on ocean pine stripe with the groundwater level so high the
26:25hole quickly filled with water local resident Terence Dewan watched his neighbor's houses crumble into it it grew
26:32like this and then it started doing this the ground started dropping like piano keys within about an hour
26:41what started out is about a 10-foot sinkhole ended up opening up to almost a hundred and fifty feet
26:47and it
26:47moved over to that side of the house you know at that point you knew that they were in danger
26:58the first home was completely engulfed into the sinkhole within a matter of about 25 30 minutes and then it
27:04moved this way and you knew that that house was gonna be in danger the second home about 40 percent
27:12of it
27:13was engulfed in the same time frame eventually in engulfing probably 60 to 70 percent within two
27:20hours and then once it had moved side to side then it started moving forward towards us that's when my
27:26blood pressure started to rise on the other side of the sinkhole Ralph Hartwig's family home was getting
27:33closer and closer to the edge two police cars parked in my cul-de-sac they pounded on my door
27:39and told me that I
27:41had to leave I watched the second half of the second house fall into the sinkhole over the deputy's
27:47shoulder so they didn't have to ask me twice once our mailbox went then we knew that we were in
27:54a hot
27:54hot spot you know by the time it finally come to rest at about five o'clock in the afternoon
27:59ended up
28:00being almost 250 feet wide by about 50 feet deep
28:09Ocean Pines Drive was now ground zero for Florida's latest sinkhole disaster
28:15and yet just a few hours earlier it had been a neighborhood that typified the Florida dream
28:22the same dream that brought British geologist David Wilshaw to live in the Sunshine State
28:27even though he knows more than most about the dangers of sinkholes we come round the side of
28:33this property you'll see why they built this neighborhood the way they did you got your
28:38boat dock you can take your boat out you can canoe there are some bigger lakes around here you
28:43could water ski on that is the typical Florida lifestyle everybody dreams of but it comes at a
28:47price for the residents here this dream had become a nightmare the sinkhole had swallowed two houses
28:55completely and nine more were left teetering on the edge condemned and earmarked for destruction with
29:02a red tag looks like a construction site which it has been for the last month or so the first
29:09thing
29:09they had to do was remove the material which was in the hole so there was parts of houses a
29:16couple of
29:16boats and there were septic tanks so to avoid polluting the local lake they've been pounded the
29:24area where the sinkhole occurred basically they filled it in with crushed limestone and then built
29:29a dam around the edge of the the sinkhole lake which is now formed the Terence doing the filling and
29:36work
29:36didn't save his home the property has been condemned as too dangerous to live in be careful you can see
29:43this is the concrete line where the where the hole was on the driveway because this this was
29:48my driveway that went out you know 40 feet and that's it's in the hole I mean it stinks through
29:54no fault of
29:55your own you know your property is pretty much not livable and at the end of the day we're not
30:00gonna be
30:00living here again back in Ripon it's nine months since the sinkhole that swallowed four gardens and local residents are
30:09now
30:09putting their lives back together Peter Osler and Julia Lister bought their house here as an investment to
30:18do up and sell and give them both a pension so a sudden sinkhole definitely wasn't part of the plan
30:24this
30:25was just a little cupboard here which would then made into an ensuite we've totally rewired it we've
30:34totally replumbed it we've re-insulated it all we haven't shirked on on anything with so much time
30:45and money tied up inside the house the need to know that this part of Ripon is back on solid
30:49ground
30:52when the sinkhole swallowed the gardens here Harrogate Borough Council called in the British
30:57Geological Survey straightaway their measurements of the size and depth of the sinkhole were crucial to
31:03working out how to fill the voids below and stabilize the land above now dr. Oliver Kouris
31:11and his team are back to take a form of geological x-ray of what lies beneath so what we're
31:17doing here
31:17today is we're running a microgravity survey and that involves using a gravimeter we're essentially
31:24taking images of the subsurface much like a medical doctor would take images of a patient's body to try and
31:31understand what's going on inside to ensure that a sinkhole doesn't strike twice it's vital to fill
31:39all the open spaces beneath in Sefna the hole that killed Jeff Bush was filled with gravel and all of
31:46it
31:46disappeared just two years later but filling holes is expensive so in Florida many are left to become
31:53lakes and in Ripon historic sinkholes have become landmarks especially the 1834 sinkhole that may have
32:02inspired one of the world's best loved children's books Alice in Wonderland is the story of a girl
32:10falling into a rabbit hole and entering a magical world underground the man who wrote it was Lewis Carroll
32:17a regular visitor to ribbon because his father was a clergyman at the cathedral when you combine the
32:25quirkiness of ripping cathedral with the drama of the city sinkholes you have the makings of a fantastic
32:31story so did Alice fall down a rabbit hole or a sinkhole geologist Anthony Cooper claims the answer lies
32:40right here behind this clump of trees when you get a bit closer you find to your surprise that there
32:47is
32:48in fact a 20 meter drop down a down a hole with red sandstone exposed in the back of it
32:55there it's
32:56about 11 meters across it's about 20 meters deep this hole is close to the city's old railway station so
33:04Lewis Carroll would have passed it many times I think there's a strong connection between Alice going down
33:10down down not a rabbit hole but a sinkhole but you can't say in a children's book Alice went down
33:16a sinkhole
33:17and they probably didn't even have a name for it then Lewis Carroll isn't the only person to take
33:26inspiration from Rippon sinkholes just across the river at Rippon Golf Club sinkholes are a feature of
33:32the course they call them bomb holes here and according to club member Anthony Blackburn the players love
33:39them because they're an ever-changing challenge the area that has got the sort of a shrubbery in it that
33:46is
33:46one of the biggest sinkholes on the course that one it looks pretty flat here but then all of a
33:51sudden just over the brow of the hill you've got this huge bomb hole which just appears you've really
33:56got to carry this with your drive if you're gonna get a chance to either make birdie or power in
34:01this
34:01hole every one of the first nine holes here is peppered with sinkhole craters and land that seems to
34:08dip a little more with each passing season as we come further up the fourth fairway you can see quite
34:15a significant indentation here on the left-hand side this has gone from being a completely flat
34:20green to one that I suppose slopes quite severely from back to front it slopes so much that during the
34:29summer months in particular the green stuff cannot put the pin anywhere near the middle or front of the
34:34green because it's so fast and downhill that the ball just keeps on rolling off the green and it's
34:39virtually impossible to stop it although on the plus side get your shot wrong and there's a good
34:45chance you'll get a sinkhole in one one of the things that really amazes me when I play with visitors
34:49is they come to places like this and they go wow look at that I didn't know that was there
34:55isn't that
34:55amazing and it's interesting that they love the quirkiness of this front nine holes of golf and often it is
35:01because of the features from the the gypsum sinkholes really the missing of that put had nothing to do
35:08with the gypsum perhaps it's no coincidence that Florida has more sinkholes and more golf courses than
35:18any other u.s. state most of the water features and lakes here are sinkholes including the one in
35:26lander lakes Pascoe County that struck so shockingly in 2017
35:33the property is condemned if you feel the ground shake I'd start running
35:39Rolf Hartwig his wife and baby's son has the hole swallowed the house usually it would be mowed
35:49so this was where you hoped your son would grow up and play and yeah this would be where my
35:55son would
35:55play what do you think will happen to this house now county's probably gonna knock it down and make a
36:00park out of it who knows all Rolf can do now is think about everything the sinkhole has taken from
36:07him how do you feel to be standing in the garden here looking at it huh you would have to
36:16censor that
36:23on the other side of the newly formed lake Terence Dewan is stepping back into his condemned home for
36:29one last look around all right so we're where we at right now obviously we're in the kitchen
36:37we've removed all of our things this was the nice granite and new counters and and cabinets that we
36:46had put in we had all new appliances that we bought if you're not careful you'll trip over some of
36:51those right there normally that water would have drained off and instead you know it seems to be
36:59pitching inward and you can kind of see the the water signs there we got a boat we live on
37:07a lake
37:07it was one of those things waited a couple years save up some money get the boat live on the
37:11lake
37:11have fun and then it's just kind of gone one of the cruelest things about a sinkhole is the speed
37:20at
37:20which you can take so much away all your hopes dreams and plans sunk in a matter of moments
37:28usually it happens on TV and it's it's somewhere else you know and you're watching other people
37:33deal with the tragedies and and the things that you know that that go on when when holes like this
37:40open
37:40up of course this hole is a little bit different you don't see holes like this opening up every day
37:45you don't see a big hole open up and and basically swallow two homes back on the other side of
37:52Ocean
37:52Pines Drive Rolf may have lost his home but he's staying positive he believes despite everything he's
38:00a lucky man now when I tell you that I'm a fortunate individual that's why his wife Sule and son
38:10Henry got
38:11safely out of the house so you may be looking for a new home but you're both safe and your
38:17son is safe
38:18too yeah we're very lucky aren't we so can anything be done to prevent devastating sinkholes like this
38:32this probably the most documented sinkhole in history and what lessons can sinkholes teach us buildings have
38:39to be designed to a higher level of safety to allow for a future sinkhole collapse
38:57I asked everybody out there please pray for the people in this community right now they're fearful
39:01and unfortunately we can't give clear answers because this is mother nature when the lander lakes sinkhole
39:07made the news all over the world in 2017 one expert realized it was happening very close to home because
39:15I grew up right near here I was very interested right away and and understanding right away where
39:20they were talking about dr. Laurie Collins the geoscience professor from the nearby University of South Florida so
39:29this was a perfect opportunity to study a sinkhole from beginning to end using the same kind of
39:37technology that the British Geological Survey have been using in Ripon dr. Collins and her team assembled
39:43a 3d picture of the surface here and what lies beneath this probably the the most documented sinkhole in
39:50history we're going to be making all of these data sets freely available so that we can really see understand
39:56and share the science related to this site their research shows that this entire area used to be a
40:02lake and that lake was an ancient sinkhole by sharing this information with experts like David Wilshaw dr.
40:11Collins hopes that disasters like this can be avoided with a much better understanding of how and where to
40:17build houses in the future well this is great to have an actual kind of 3d image of a sinkhole
40:23with
40:23that is something we rarely get what we have been able to show is that there's been dredging of the
40:29lake saxon area that essentially took all the dredge material and made new land so most of what we're
40:36seeing through here is that are actually houses sitting on new land or changed land surface
40:46the problem for Florida is that its population is growing all the time and properties are being
40:51built on new land all over the state that's why sinkhole reports are rising year on year because more and
40:59more people are living right on top of them Jeremy Bush and his family are still struggling to make sense
41:08of a
41:08sinkhole collapsing right under their house swallowing and killing Jeff Bush with their house destroyed
41:17Jeremy and Rachel now live in a mobile home the lives changed forever by a sinkhole
41:26life's different going from living into a house living into a trailer I still have worries here because I
41:33worry about the tree above my trailer now there's always something it's always something no one ever
41:39said life was easy
41:43back in Ripon the latest plan for the land where the 2014 sinkhole happened is to put caravans here
41:50instead of houses but Ross Nicholson is a geotechnical engineer who's been studying this land in detail and
41:58believes even caravans could be unsafe here if you could imagine a situation where perhaps in late
42:05January during the night in a heavy downpour or heavy snowfall one of the caravans subsides into a large
42:12hole of five meters depth with elderly people inside it how are they going to escape and as for building
42:17new
42:18houses in ribbon Ross says lessons should be learned from the sinkholes here and in other sinkhole hotspots
42:23all over the world so even if there are no sinkhole features present now they could appear in 40 or
42:3260
42:32years and change the safety of a site completely so buildings are built on gypsum prone areas of
42:40written have to be designed to a higher level of safety if I was a family man with a young
42:46family living
42:47in Ripon I would like to know what's beneath my feet but I can also understand why people
42:53would prefer not to know back in Magdalene's Road Peter Osler and Julia Lister know a lot more about
43:01what's beneath their feet than they did before the sinkhole in 2016 the main worry was the unknown and
43:10as time has gone on you know the geological guys have come along you know and explained things to us
43:17so
43:20it's not frightening anymore the British geological survey will continue to monitor the land here to
43:26assess any remaining risk but there's no sign of imminent subsidence or cracking and the concrete
43:32plug that filled the hole appears to be doing exactly what it's designed to do on top of that most
43:39residents think the area looks better than it did before the sinkhole what you see today is absolutely
43:45fantastic it's bright in the whole area we've got a brand new road surface out of it as well we're
43:52the ones that letting the side down at them because we're still renovating Sam sorry neighbors Doreen Ellis
44:01too is confident that her sinkhole misadventure is over and that her house and garden are now firmly on
44:07solid ground we're apparently 99% sure you don't get two in the same place we know that other parts
44:15of
44:15Rippon it could happen there but once you've had one you're not going to get another one so it's
44:20probably the safest place to live on top of a sinkhole and sinkholes returns with sucked under next
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