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Subject New Sinkhole in Florida 50 Ft Wide & Growing

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Ha!  No doubt!

From this article it looks like the second sinkhole that has appeared in the neighborhood this year.

This article has interesting photos, that is some front yard!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232538/Central-Florida-threatened-sinkhole-abyss-opens-family-s-lawn.html

Residents worried by a second hole in the area in 2012
    Engineers and homeowners can only wait to see what happens

A quiet street in Windermere, Florida, has an unwelcome new visitor as a crater appeared overnight. Paul Padfield, the homeowner, first noticed the gap in his front yard on Monday morning after taking his son to school.

Yet, as he told Cfnews13.com, it has continued to grow since then: "It was about half that size. The depth is about twice as deep as it originally was." The hole is around 60 feet wide and ten feet deep, but engineers do now believe that the crater has stopped spreading.

It's thought that the roots of two large trees provided some structural support and stopped the hole from swallowing up the entire sidewalk.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232538/Central-Florida-threatened-sinkhole-abyss-opens-family-s-lawn.html#ixzz2CB0xDA5U
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This article has interesting photos, that is some front yard!
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Original Message WINDMERE, Florida (WTVR) – A sinkhole that has opened up in a Florida family’s front yard has the neighborhood buzzing.

It opened up sometime early Monday morning, but the Padfield family didn’t notice the big hole as they were hurrying out to school.

But when Paul Padfield returned a few hours later he knew something was up.

“It was 25 feet wide and maybe 6 feet deep at that time, and its been growing ever since,” said Padfield.

And since then the hole has more than doubled in size.

[link to wtvr.com]

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