Posted on 12/12/2022 11:11:45 AM PST by Red Badger
An enormous 100-foot-wide sinkhole nicknamed the “Gate to Hell” has opened up near a popular Russian ski resort, prompting a handful of evacuations and a pause in operations until further notice.
The sinkhole collapsed at a nearby mine in Siberia’s Kemerovo region that is owned by a British company linked to billionaire Roman Abramovich. Aerial footage of the collapse shows the sinkhole formed near the side of a road, with at least one house teetering toward the crater.
Residents of four nearby houses were evacuated over the past few days due to warnings about the collapse, and no casualties have been reported as of Monday. Those residents have since been resettled elsewhere, local officials said.
The collapse wasn’t entirely unexpected, officials said, as they were able to predict the natural disaster and evacuate homes before the collapse. Operations at the Sheregesh mine have been suspended until further notice.
The sinkhole comes after the mine recently announced a major investment, but it’s expected those plans may be put on hold as officials work to refill the crater.
Is Melski’s Hole, da!
Watch your step on the way to the outhouse
evil putin needs to tend to russia first
Putin is rumored to be near death.
Maybe this is just preliminary preparations....................😁
LOL
a warning from hell
Express Lane, no waiting....................
LOLOL
Good Lord!
That looks almost like it was artificially cut. How many Guatemalans died when the thing first opened up?
https://knowledgenuts.com/the-great-guatemalan-sinkhole/
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/guatemala-city-sinkhole-happen/story?id=10796311
This kind of stuff used to happen frequently in certain regions of England. I recall that salt mines were at the center of the problem.
While the correlation was extremely high, (proximity of salt mines to collapses) when the cases went to court the evidence was not strong enough (maybe it was not even “there enough”) for the plaintiffs to prevail.
I guess the “loser pays” legal costs system over there became a factor.
100 ft wide is “gate to hell”? Ha They got nothing on Florida.
We were living in Central Florida when the Winter Park sinkhole hit and swallowed a block including a number of homes and a car dealership.
It was 350 feet in diameter. We took the kids to look at it in person. Pretty intense.
For fun look up the Scott Lake sinkhole in Lakeland, FL. It is a real lake, not a large pond. Swallowed the whole lake, all the fish, and a *bunch* of alligators. It was awesome to watch film shot from overhead.
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for December 12, 2022.
- Russia continues its war of attrition - focusing on exhausting and overwhelming critical Ukrainian defenses around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine/western Russia;
- Despite claims that Russian missile stockpiles are depleted, Russia continues carrying out regular, large-scale missile barrages against Ukrainian infrastructure;
- Latest US assistance package for Ukraine continues the trend of dwindling, inadequate support for Ukraine;
- US government procurement numbers over the course of the next 2-5 years indicates that at no time in the near future will the US be capable of producing let alone supplying Ukraine with the number of weapons and ammunition it requires;
- While Russian production data is not available, the fact that Russia’s stockpiles and military were configured for large-scale protracted and intense combat suggests its military industrial output is likewise configured for such demands;
- The Western media is now admitting that Ukraine can neither win, nor is there any moral imperative to ensure that it does...
Gotta know your popular memes and your third meme is so dated. 20 years old at least. From before they were called memes.
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