Hope she’s okay.
Doggone cats and their holes.
OMG!!! PRAYERS!
There’s more to this story...
I too wish for a safe result for the woman but why on earth are there so many holes in the story? It’s impossible to make head or tails to a story when it’s written like this.
**not seen since going out Monday night to look for a cat
(Who hadn’t seen her since she went out to look for the cat?)
**her car was 40 miles away
(Did she live 40 miles away from someone who hadn’t SEEN her since she went out to look for the cat?)
**5 year old granddaughter was in the car
(where did the granddaughter live?)
?????????
My mom said latest is they are saying it is now a recovery instead of rescue.
We live in an area that was all orchards 120 years ago. Wells were common around here and most were not properly filled in. Our neighbors across the street suddenly had a well about 3 feet in diameter open up in their backyard where their little boys often played. The well had been covered with a wood sheet and soil put over the wood cover. It eventually rotted away and there was the gaping well. It wasn’t on any plat maps and wasn’t disclosed in the sale. It cost them a lot of money to properly plug it with concrete. Fortunately, nobody fell into the well.
Reminds me of something I read decades ago in Ripley’s Believe it or Not.
A man walking down a street in Scotland singing “When the roll is called up yonder!” when the ground suddenly opened and swallowed him.
Incident supports my cats are evil theory.
A crew was working on a project when the day began coming to an end. The foreman realized they’d be needing a 4X8 sheet of plywood to cover up a gap in a wall before they could leave. One worker recalled seeing one laying in the field out behind the project. He went to where he had seen it and it still lay there. He bent over and lifted one end, and then stepped forward to raise it straight up. He stepped forward to do this and immediately dropped into a hole in the ground and the sheet of plywood then lay back down and covered the hole. The end.
Cats gotta go one way or the other. Either this or being eaten by a Haitian in Ohio
Way back when I was ~20 y/o, I was jogging on the edge of an asphalt surface county road — the type that gets “oil and chips” every 3 years or so. Suddenly my left foot plunged right through the “solid” pavement! It turned out water had found a pathway by an old culvert and eaten away material under the surface. I assume freeze-thaw cycles contributed. Luckily, the “sinkhole” was not large - maybe 2-1/2 feet deep, and I was pretty agile / somehow did not break my leg - I just had some nasty bruises and scrapes.
A neighbor came by and it turned out he had a white-painted saw-horse we put just ahead of the hole (traffic-wise). Then he called the sheriff and a deputy came out with a better marker, then the country road dept. came out & put up a better barricade & hazard signs. I was thankful the hole was small and not caused by an old mine (which we have some of.)
Anyway, that got me thinking that in this case the lady’s cat might have gone into a hole starting to open up, and she got too close to the edge which then failed, or, she could have walked out on what seemed to be a “perfectly good” surface and plunged right through. :-(