Massive sinkhole opens up in Florida woman's backyard | Morning in America
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- A massive hole has opened in Weeki Wachee, Florida, in a woman's backyard amid heavy rain. The homeowner told NewsNation affiliate WFLA it's “alarming” that something like this could happen in her backyard.
#Florida #WeekiWachee #sinkhole
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I remember a story where a man was sleeping in his bedroom and a sinkhole opened up under him and was never found. His brother tried to dig him out but he was too far down and totally buried with his bed. Terrifying.
Yep. It happened to a family living in Brandon, just outside of Tampa. His name was Jeff Bush.😢
It was in Seffner, part of "sinkhole alley". It just reopened again last year and his brother went there again. Both houses next door were torn down and a big fence is around the area. I believe this was the 3rd time it's reopened. His brother is still heartbroken he couldn't reach him. He said his brother continued to yell for him until the hole swallowed him. His headstone is right there in front of it. Absolutely heartbreaking. Seffner is very close to Tampa.
@@marlysmithsonian5746heartbreaking and terrifying!
That’s nightmare fuel. I want to live in the sky
I remember that!! I had just moved to Florida and had difficulties going to sleep at night.
Sinkholes have always been a thing in Florida . The first I witnessed was in Casselberry in the early sixties that took 3 houses. Then the famous on in Winter Park in 1981 that took a house and several Porsches that had been parked at a repair shop . People were not hurt in those . The worst was one in 2013 where the guy was sleeping in his bed and it swallowed him , never to be seen again.
That was such a tragic case. His brother begged them to try to rescue his brother but it was too dangerous to even try. This incident scared the heck out of all of us Floridians.
Yup! Georgia also.
It's not a thing in KC ... just saying. And we have a better football team.
@@davidowens1424 where is KC ? Kansas or Kentucky ?
An other one in Kentucky swallowed a bunch of Corvettes!
My hubby said one word. GREED. The developers, the builders, the permit people. They all knew.....
And hubby knows this how?
they just don't care.. 😯😯😯😡😡😡😡
The county and state governments.
agreed and yet the city officials get paid off not to say anything.
PoliTRICKS
Thank God no one was hurt!
lol no
😂😂🤦 what does god have to do with any of this ?? 🤦🤡
@@JtM8292Go ask God!
@@BT4EVER 🤣😂🤣 I know better than to waste my time ! 🫡
@@JtM8292..no lives was lost so we thank God...dont have an issue when people choose to praise God
Its all unstable sand stone. Happens a lot. One dude a while back in Florida went down in his bed and his brother tried to save him but he got swallowed up and never found. The whole area of his bedroom went down into a sinkhole. Buried alive. A horrible way to go.
I would be worried
whenever kids walk on the lawn their small feet have more impact as its high pressure on a small area. and the butter fly effect creates sinkholes. so keep those kids off your lawns.
😂😂
surely this is sarcasm
Ha Ha, Ray Bradbury would be proud of you for remembering him. I didn't know if he had kids or not !
Looks like they were trying to fill it before it collapsed.
What did you expect to happen with all the water being sucked from below to supply too many houses?
Cave looks like under there
I’d be thinking it’s time to move. I’d actually be scared to stay inside the home worrying the sinkhole might get bigger and swallow the entire house.
That would be an awful situation to be in.
when the drone flies over the hole it looks like the entrance of a tunnel on either side, then they quickly change the shot so we can't really see the bottom of the hole. you blink you miss it kind of thing
Outer Range in real life...
0:24 thought I heard something, had to listen closely 😂
Ideally, developers would invest in a thorough survey of the soil before building homes and enticing their purchase. Personally, I find Earth science fascinating: rock cycle, tectonic plates, faults nearby, volcanoes, nearby mountains formation, nearby rivers. What you see may not be what it seems, unfortunately. Even if well informed, people may elect to say, "it'll not happen in my lifetime." There we go...
And they will continue to build there...
Not talking about local developers
Subsidence. Look it up. Florida is extremely prone to this geologic activity due to groundwater depletion.
You know what they need to do in Florida, they need to pump more water out of the ground. People die (in bed) when some of these things happen. Florida's main product isn't orange juice or produce anymore -- it's real estate.
Pool company overdid it./s
This happens allllllll the time In that area …. It’s very common I would never buy there
Now, if it opens up for the rest of the state.
Pennsylvania is so undermined due to taking coal, we are known for sink holes. And adding fracking to it, didn't help at all. Luckily, where my house is, there is no coal, only Marsellas Shell which was mined for gas and screwed up our water well.
Not all from coal. We used to live in Sinking Springs, PA. No coal or mining in that area. Known for sink holes due to the type of soil.
@@mollytremblay1396 what kind of soil? Limestone or Dolimite?
@@joannmay-anthony1076 limestone
Keep it a spring feed pond
OLD FRIEND OF MY SIS MOVED TO MIAMI 2 YRS AGO
IMPOSSIBLE TO GET INSURANCE
PEOPLE DRIVING W/O CAR COVERAGE ALSO
In other words, water is wet.
before you move to florida, learn it's geography, that 'dangler' of a state is going to lose ground sooner than later and these are just symptoms.
CONSEQUENCES, of building on swamp land......
NASA use to claim these were astroids hitting earth 😂😂😂
You could not pay me to live in FL!
“Weeki Wachee”. In Florida, of course.
Don't Build You're House Upon The Sand .....🙏
This is why i will not go to Florida or live there. The state is covered a lot in sink holes!
😮
No just go with me Iam out of the State of Florida....Bout to bounce period
Time to move now😮!!
Okie boys why the heart break
That woman backyard has a huge hole 😂
Flroida Man could fill that hole with garbage in a month.
That house just got devalued by 90%
It'll still sell for half a million.
190%
@@davidlafleche1142 Because 1 of the 90,000 realtor\finance guys in the area will scam an elderly couple into it.
why they just added a giant olympic size swimming pool 🤣
I wouldn't live their even it's free. You never know when the dirt is settled. What if it hasn't?
I wouldn't stay in that house!!! I'd be scared to go to sleep in there!
This could happen where you live! No one is certain
@@sheilarodriguez7680 Yes, that is true, but that particular neighborhood in Florida has been known to have big sink holes
That looks like a portal to hell!
Welcome to Florida! 😅
@@Aochiclol😅
Nah, you should see the hole in Russia. Scary AF with no _known_ (detected) bottom.
or aliens
Yeah, no way I want to live next to that. It looks like something could crawl out of that!
What the Heck! You're right there and you didn't send a drone down the sinkhole to see what the bottom looks like?!👀
Its just a pit with a sandy bottom. All sinkholes fill the bottom in with debris and soil from the surface and the sides. When I was a kid we used to play in old dry sinkholes.
@@roguea987 Most of the 'debris' was probably washed away. In Florida, there are underground 'rivers' that are part of the structure holding the top landmass above the saturated areas underneath. When they pump out much of those 'rivers' the support is removed.
@@roguea987 Some of us are still looking for Jimmy Hoffa. We want more than just a sand filled sinkhole.
@@roguea987I'm glad you're still with us😮
@@TheTibetyakDidn't you see the movie " " The Irishman " ? Robbie Robertson, the Canadian Indian musician from The Band did the music. I know it's just a movie ,but maybe it has clues ?
Growing up in FL, many worried about sinkholes all the time watching the news, but that’s a massive and very frightening sink hole right there!
Yep sinkholes open up very huge in florida
I grew up in Florida and the only thing I worried about was if there was a gator in our swimming hole. Florida is becoming a disaster and education dead zone.
House value went from $750K to $20K overnight.
I was thinking the same thing.😬
Wouldn't pay 5 thousand dollars for that property.
life is so unpredictable
Not entirely. A street full of homes in Tampa has an empty lot at the end of the street since the 80s. A sinkhole opened on that lot and the city won’t allow a home built on it, so its been vacant for decades. Homes on the street built for $49k in 1981 are selling for $280k today.
@@UnionAdvocate and people are stupid enough to pay 280k
Sinkholes are dangerous. There was once an incident where one morning neighbours woke up to find that their neighbour and her house had disappeared
Don't forget the man in Sefner that was swallowed up while asleep in bed. The whole opened up under his bedroom and only collapsed the floor in that room.
His family opened the door to the room to find a gaping hole in the ground and that was it.
Horrifying!
@@roguea987i will never forget that story. Then the sinkhole opened up AGAIN years after.
Not to mention the one that opened up in Winter Park back in 1981, taking out houses, swimming pools, businesses, and cars.
that reminds me of that show, a third for pinochle, trips are dangerous dear you see
Yet another reason not to move to Florida 😮
This is the main reason I decided against it!
@@iloveschicken6527 As a lifelong Floridian, Thank you both.
@@jrlove1815 LOL.
Oh ,come on now, you gotta get used to the skeeters,snakes,spiders,sinkholes,hurricanes,tornadoes,alligators,oppressive heat,arrogant newcomers and clusterfk housing, other than that,it’s just like everywhere.
@@jrlove1815I second this notion.
Could you have a bigger banner? Blocks 25% of the video. It's not the 2000s anymore.
i dunno i cant see it, needs to be like 40% or bigger
How old do you think their average viewer is? Old people like big text.
I literally see the wHOLE video. 😂
It is 2024, it most certainly is, the 2000s...
@@GeneralPadron Good catch. I missed that. Lol
Looks like that lot had the framing to pour a slab. Good thing it happened now instead of after a house was built
good pickup!
Now the developer will have to shift the slab 20 feet to the right.
Ouch, that is huge. Everyone stay safe, I remember that poor man that was sleeping when a sinkhole opened up under him.
Someone's house was being built right on top of that thing. That's scary.
In northern Virginia the family across the road from a lady I worked for had their basement floor fall in a sink hole. Daughter was in the basement bouncing a ball the night before it happened. Karst spots in VA too.
Wow
God isn't a fan of basketball, missed the cutoff for overnight straight to the abyss shipping.
Google Florida sinkhole map and you will see where all sinkholes have occurred in Florida…
You have to be careful using that map. They show a sink hole in Palm Beach county. I remember when that formed. It wasn't a sink hole, but a wash out from an over pass on I-95 that was added. They hadn't planted grass yet to hold the soil in place, and there was a heavy rain. Media didn't have any other word for it, so they called it a "sink hole". That's how several of those dots got put on that map. They're not all real sink holes.
Poor woman. Her home is worthless now.
her home is in Florida, unfortunately it was worthless to begin with
lol what no it’s not
@@sarahfaith6531 Maybe you need to take a closer look at that massive gaping wound in the earth and ask yourself if it's done caving in, or if there's more space to fill.
You wouldn't live there if the house and were free.
Not to an investor who values a fabulous underground dungeon. It is Florida.
@@dumpstertelevision?
Sign behind the reporter advertising 1/2 acre lots.
You too could own property (taxes) in the town of Wicky Wacky.
Half acre measured vertically
@@Novastar.SaberCombatit’s actually Weeki Watchee.
Florida is sinking.
So is California
Actually, everywhere people are pumping water out of the ground is sinking.
Only the places where they pump the underground support system out of the area.
So is New York
@@allegra9967 if you mean NYC, I think the island sits on granite.
Scientists know EXACTLY why sinkholes open up. There's no mystery.
Ugh, I feel for that homeowner because they will never be able to sell their home for a good price.
I will not buy it for free it's terrible
Ya or sleep at night! Lol😮
Did I see a sign for new homes there? They are going to build a new neighborhood around there? I thought geologists had to declare an area sinkhole safe before building anything?
News Flash: This entire area Weeki Wachee, Brooksville, Spring Hill have sink holes everywhere. Have for many years. Not news in Hernando County.
Why does he start with you don't expect this in your back yard?
If you live in Florida, you can expect anything to happen in the back yard.
Especially a sinkhole. I can't even remember how many I have seen over the past 56 years. One almost took out a friend's house in the 80 's.
🐊
@@luischarvet4516 ?
@@pitviper7924he said alligators🐊 are expected as well in your backyard
Including phytons and gators lol
Such an unfortunate title .. hehe
🫣🤣
Hahahahahahahahahahaha...
@the_peach75
😂
bruh
Literally "too close to home 🏡"; that massive 🕳️!!! Living on the edge has never felt so literal right now. I'd be frightened if my property were on that land.
What if there's one closer to the home😮🏡? There must be more sink 🕳️ s just waiting to concave. 🙏🏼 💯
Well, that is a construction site.
It’s evident that there was a “Vibratory Roller” used to get compaction on the soil.
So, it’s a good thing this opened up now, and not after there is an occupied building on the property.
There are hundreds of underground natural water flows in florida. Sinkholes are the reason Orlando has 700 lakes and ponds
Insurance companies loves those little stair step cracks every old house has so they can cancel your insurance.
Forget her house, they were setting up the land where the sinkhole opened up to be a foundation for another home or building... They're just bringing in dirt, packing it and building. They should be doing some sort of survey for underground stability before starting foundations
You think a developer has time for that? Nah, the faster they build the faster they get money! Lol
@@michellem7300lol true
Yea no! 😂
_"Some sort of survey?"_ Is this a magical survey? How do you detect sinkholes underground? While you're at it, can you start detecting for earthquakes as well? 🤔
"Similar to other geological phenomenon like earthquakes, sinkholes tend to occur in specific geographic locations, but are almost impossible to predict."
@@grondhero true
So obviously neither of the reporters knows what they are looking at. The sandy lot with the hole is being built on. The forms for a new house are what is visible in the video of that sink hole. Had the house been erected it would have fallen into that hole. That builder and homeowner to be lucked out.
I’d be terrified
It's definitely wicky-wacky.
🎶there’s a hole in my yard that can only be filled by you 🎶 🤓
That's Deep
@@sctsh1491😆
Dats a big ol hole!
Now they will have lake front property.
Researchers are trying to answer… it’s Florida. There’s your answer.
It was certainly wicky-wacky.
Sand is particularly unstable.
@@lindalcoomessand and limestone, both of which are heavily affected by water, and lack of water that has been diverted or used somewhere else.
Yup
They know the answer but the promoters pay them not to answer 😬
Why is a sinkhole always round?
The path of least resistance has no edges. Gravity takes everything around it and loses momentum the farther out it gets. Kind of like a funnel effect - tornados, for example.
Aliens
Any truth to a 4.2 quake happening in FL yesterday, June 16, 2024?
When you continue to allow huge developments in the State, this will happen.
Omg just the thought of my dogs running out back to use the restroom and falling into this!!!
This area of Florida is under drought restrictions……see that beautiful green lawn….well that water came from the limestone caverns in the ground, under that house
….our soil is pure sand, and it’s really dry because of lack any any measurable rain for the last few months, south Florida is getting soaked…we haven’t.
….when they drilled the hole for the new irrigation well, on the empty lot….the sand flowed into the hole and filled the cavern that’s low or empty.
Those people over watering their lawn, is where the water went….until the rainy season is in full swing, every house in this area, it could happen.
It’s not a mystery hole, folks know why it happened, those pretty green lawn are part of the issue….
Wow. Apparently it’s more common in areas with heavy pollution and caused by acidic heavy rainfall.
Or maybe the rainfall caused the aquifer to wash out a salt dome?
imagine being the person who bought the land and started preparing their foundation. Their lot of land just dropped to zero. That's depressing because I highly doubt they had an insurance plan so early on in the development...
Boba fett is in there
is this the same hole we saw yesterday were they were ready to build new houses on mississippi kite ave?
Yes
Unreal. Scary. Crazy. The developers must have known something!
Pshhhhhh...unreal.. GO WITH ME..now GO WITH ME on this...smh
Yikes, that's a deep one, no more mowing the back lawn glad no one was hurt❤
It's time to go rent a U-Haul and start packing. 🤔😔😏😉
Humans have destroyed this poor planet.
@Jen-je3jo -Exactly !! And its going to get worse before better
as if sinkholes haven't been a natural phenomenon for literally eons. people are so clueless.
The value of this property dropped by more than half with this sinkhole! The soil of Florida is like a block of salt where water infiltrates and forms tunnels! The ground is weakened. It could be catastrophic, especially where there are a lot of buildings. Many people could lose their lives there 😬
No mention of the depth or width or length of the hole. C'mon!
My daughters GF bought a house in high springs. Brand new homes with sink holes popping up in the neighborhood. They just filled them with water and called them ponds!
Looks like Hillary Clinton.
Glad we moved out of Tampa in 1992 ... whew!! 😮 Wow!!!
GOT A COUSIN LIVES IN STUART
PEOPLE HAVE NO OR CANT GET HOME COVERAGE
PRICES ARE 5 FIGURES I HEARD
BOAT COVERAGE IS NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE
KEEP ON BUILDING
KEEP COLLECTING IMPACT 💸
no thought to where power comes from...? where water comes & goes...? where traffic gets to & from ???
I watch the world news every day. And every day it seems like I’m watching the scenes from a movie about the apocalypse.
@NathanHarrison7 It is because the media needs drama for views..... you have to do some of your own searches, like google or search TH-cam for specific items.... Like..... nomads around the world, ancient architecture, how to grow food in your yard, fix a toilet, hair styles, meditation, fishing...... etc. Then you will see the world is actually a very cool place, right now!
trying too hard Host
yeah.... You can't just fill in a underground river. It will wash out again. since they've pumped millions of gallons from that area, this is 100% man caused.
Sinkhole appears in Sinkhole Alley? shocker!! A bit like tornadoes shocking residents in Tornade Alley! 🤣 Why even live in these places people...c'mon now
Does anyone know what humans are doing ton the planet o cause this? Never heard of this growing up in the 70s and 80s. Now I see it in the news so often...?? Scientists? Is this REALLY normal?
Florida has been built on swamps and all the severe storms and just being that close to the Ocean 🌊 🌊
That ground has been wet for Centuries...
Does it seem to anyone else like they were attempting to push fill dirt into the sink hole? Why is there a large pile of dirt in the middle of that packed dirt foundation, right next to the hole?
Were they trying to fill it before it became massive? And if they we're trying to fill it, then who knows what else they'll try to get away with while building