Posted on 07/14/2023 12:52:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
TAMPA – Officials in Hillsborough County reported that the sinkhole in Seffner, which gained national attention in 2013 after swallowing a man, reopened on Monday afternoon. This marks the third time the sinkhole has emerged.
Jon-Paul Lavandeira, the Director of Hillsborough’s Code Enforcement Division, told ABC Action News there is currently no danger to individuals in the vicinity near the hole. County officials have informed nearby residents that they can safely remain in their homes.
Lavandeira mentioned that the sinkhole measures approximately 12 feet by 12 feet, with no indications of overnight growth. The site is closed off to the public and secured by two layers of fencing.
The sinkhole initially appeared on the same property in 2013 and claimed the life of Jeffrey Bush, a 36-year-old man who was sleeping. His body was never recovered.
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It’s still hungry.
What does it mean that the sinkhole “reopened”? What has its status been since 2013? Did it close?
It was filled in when the man was killed, and then it re-opened a few years later, now it is again................
I’m just guessing; but that looks like a former house lot that was razed and fenced off after the sinkhole first opened and swallowed a sleeping man.
Florida Man is in there drinking a beer.
Which indicates the presence of large void spaces deep under the surface, because that sinking earth is going somewhere. Ice-age caverns, perhaps, now filled with ground water.
Florida has massive underground rivers. They run down the length of the state. Most likely the man who died was carried along some distance. Odd they don’t mention anything about the underground aquifer, some of which was mapped in the northern part of the state with dye and other techniques.
The ground just up and swaller’d him.
I hope he didn’t suffer....................
Yes. Exactly Right.
He died peacefully in his sleep. Macabre.
Yes, it is the spot under the house where the poor guy was sleeping.
Oh, I doubt very much he was peacefully sleeping when he died. He had to have woke up as the house was falling in. But he wouldn’t have any idea what was happening in the dark other than a sense of falling, that is, unless some post fell on his head and knocked him out.
Terrifying way to go.
I doubt that he died peacefully.
More like was shocked awake,disoriented and frightened,suffocating and/or drowning in terror.
I pray God took him mercifully to heaven after that horrible experience.
Stuff of nightmares. Fall of the House of Usher.
“...doubt very much he was peacefully sleeping when he died. He had to have woke up as the house was falling in. But he wouldn’t have any idea what was happening in the dark other than a sense of falling, that is, unless some post fell on his head and knocked him out. Terrifying way to go.”
Well, he had a roof over his head. With all that lumber involved I would wager that he got bumped and tossed around. He might have been awake for some of it but he was soon unconscious. It’s like a car wreck.
My dad was in a mortar attack in a sandbag bunker and that bunker was hit with a big round, and he got bumped in the head with a flying timber, he was never quite the same after that but he didn’t really know what happened and could never really recall what happened as it happened so quickly, in a melee of debris.
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