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Sinkhole swallows up car in downtown St. Louis; no injuries
AP via ABC News ^
| June 29, 2017
| AP Staff
Posted on 06/29/2017 5:47:55 PM PDT by Enchante
Street workers were gathered at the parking space, a tipoff that something was amiss. That's when Westerberg, 25, found the vehicle in the gaping hole about 20 feet (6 meters) deep and 8 to 10 feet (2.5 to 3 meters) across that took up the entire southbound lane of the street, next to a vacant building expected to feature apartments, office space and retail.
No injuries were reported.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: automobiles; chat; localnews; missouri; sinkhole; stlouis
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Car swallowed up by huge sinkhole. Have to see photos - lucky no one was in car at the time!!
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posted on
06/29/2017 5:47:56 PM PDT
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Enchante
To: Enchante
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posted on
06/29/2017 5:51:10 PM PDT
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Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: Enchante
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posted on
06/29/2017 5:52:51 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: All
We can see the water main leaking in this photo, so it seems obvious that the water must have carried off dirt until there was no adequate support under the pavement.
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posted on
06/29/2017 5:54:07 PM PDT
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Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: Enchante
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posted on
06/29/2017 5:56:32 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
To: Enchante
For some reason this picture makes me think of Joy Behar.
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posted on
06/29/2017 5:57:42 PM PDT
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Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: Artemis Webb
liberal brains, liberal sanity, and all that.....
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posted on
06/29/2017 5:58:30 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: Enchante
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posted on
06/29/2017 6:00:09 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: Enchante
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posted on
06/29/2017 6:01:46 PM PDT
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Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: Enchante
To: Enchante
This is related to the Michael Brown shooting...or climate change.
Well get back to you once we have bought and paid for research that supports our conclusions.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
heck if I know.... there must be some kind of underground flow or stream, because all that water is pouring out and it’s not flowing up onto the street....
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06/29/2017 6:09:17 PM PDT
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Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: Larry Lucido
Double parking. Both above and below ground.
To: Enchante; ProtectOurFreedom
St. Louis has areas of limestone - the leaking water (or rainwater) dissolves the rock. The gushing main no doubt happened when it collapsed. But if might have been leaking over the past 50 years too.
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posted on
06/29/2017 6:16:40 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
To: 21twelve
Back in NJ I rented a cottage at a farmhouse. The owner complained about having to pay for garbage hauling. “Why back in the day we would just drive it out back and toss it in the sinkhole. 20 years of doing that and you STILL couldn’t see the bottom!”
However, some mountain creeks would have used toilet paper along the edges. Folks running their toilet pipes right into a sinkhole too - and after a few miles of caverns will run into a creek. Yuck.
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posted on
06/29/2017 6:20:31 PM PDT
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21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
To: Enchante
STL been a sink hole for years! /rimshot
To: canalabamian
This is a metaphor for the Democrats (and RINOs).
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posted on
06/29/2017 6:32:14 PM PDT
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Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: Enchante
Hang on! I thought *Saint Louis* was a sinkhole.
To: canalabamian
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06/29/2017 8:40:07 PM PDT
by
deadrock
(I is someone else.)
To: Enchante
It’d be quite a shock to, say, come out of a meeting and find one’s car in a big sinkhole... I hope the car owner has good insurance!
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posted on
06/29/2017 9:24:07 PM PDT
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Paul R.
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