As long as our population keeps growing like it has, expect more and more development. This planet took thousands of years for the human population to reach 2 billion. In less than the past 100, we have added 6 billion more to it. That's insane.
Umm water is part of what causes sinkholes. The ground is made of water soluble limestone which is eroded by groundwater. It does nothing to make the limestone ROCK stronger. It's rock. It's not going to sponge it up and get super strong.
Florida is like a Swiss cheese under the surface, full of holes that can turn into sinkholes. There's at least one documentary about it, they sent cameras under ground.
These lots used to be cheap. $500 in the 80s. That’s approx $1,500 in today’s money. In the 90s they were $5,000 but you could find deals as cheap as $1,000 or anything in between three or four thousand. Today’s money that’s maybe $6,000 or less. Around 2008 they started selling for 20 and 30 thousand. Houses were similarly cheap and have just shot up. These people are stupid paying this much for Florida property. Most of it is investors a lot are foreign. They buy houses to rent or flip same with land. And suckers that are overpaying coming down here to live. The sinkholes by the way is because all the new homes are sucking too much water out of the ground. Been going on for a long time. They have gulf courses everywhere in Florida using massive amounts of water.
Don't know what's better the fact that the builder signs shows the skin hole houses are going for 400 plus thousand or you won't be able to find affordable insurance in Florida with other companies leaving and are the disasters hitting😂😂😂 enjoy Florida
Home insurance is fast becoming a thing of the past for a majority of America my dude, if you haven't checked rates are up across the country. Don't think a single state has had rates decrease in the last 5 years. Enjoy ass
The dirt went down. A sink hole is like a little cave way deep underground that grows bigger and bigger over many years (more than a human life time). After it gets big enough, its ceiling collapses, and that might cause a little cave above it to collapse. Eventually, this "bubble" works its way to the surface. The surface soil goes down to fill those voids. After that, you can leave it alone and call it a lake (it will fill up with water all by itself). Or, you can fill it in with more dirt and build a mother in-law cottage.
I lived in Lancaster, California. While there wasn't giant sink holes like in the video, occasionally an old mine shaft that wasn't filled in would open up in somebody's front yard. With the mine shaft, a couple of trucks of gravel would easily fill the hole.
It’s an Ant Lion. They dig holes in the dirt and when a Floridian walks close to it, the ant lion throws sand at them and they fall into the hole and the ant lion pulls them into the hole and eats them. One of the things they don’t tell you when you move to Florida.
Soooo did anybody notice the glowing blue at bottom? No sand , no dirt collapsed on top? Looks more like an impact than a sink hole. Where is the dirt that fell to the bottom.
I live in Miami. I woke up this morning and in my dining room there was a hole. I called my dad over and he fell in the hole. I tried to take my dog for a walk but they fell in the hole. I tried to make coffee and my mug fell in the hole. The hole was beginning to seem like a potential problem, so I grabbed my phone and
Satire: The neighborhood HOA hereby imposes a fine of $1500 per day until your unauthorized mine is removed from the property and construction of the home is completed.
This looked like upland pine forest actually. Wetlands are still not allowed to be built on without serious concessions by the builders along with remediations.
Pause the video or take a screenshot when the drone shows the middle part all way down. Looks like a crystal blue river or possibly something really strange. Actually i just looked at it again and when you enlarge the bottom center of this thing you can clearly see a big blue skull looking up at you holy wow
We don't know if it's "technically " a sink hole?!😮😊😅😂. So...basically you can pay big $ to allow more building?! The state can't or wont do a basic scan to see if the whole area is sinking or has water that makes it prone to sink holes? Wow!
This is terrible…who can the tax collector send the property tax bill to? The government must extract its pound of flesh. At the end of this story the county when contacted says it’s the owner of the property whose responsibility is to make it whole (not hole) so the government wants their money no matter what.
When I was a kid in NY my aunt announced she was moving to FL. My mom warned her that FL is a giant swamp and most of the homes are built on quicksand. Guess where I bought a home 😳
Not a stupid question at all. Yes, there is insurance. When you get your policy, there's a page that has all kinds of possible situations listed. There's one for sink-holes. Some folks have it checked, some don't. California does the same thing with earthquake coverage. Sink hole coverage isn't as expensive as you'd think. There are millions of homes in Florida, and some homes can get cracks in their walls from nearby sink holes, but very few homes are actually consumed. Insurance losses from sink holes isn't a big factor. More concerning issues for insurance are water lines behind a washer breaking, or toilet tanks cracking causing a water damage. And the big one - fraud from roofers claiming a hail event that never even happened, caused roof damage. These people go door to door telling the homeowners that the reason their 20 year old roof looks bad is because of a storm that never happened. The homeowners believe it, and the insurance companies got stuck paying for many peoples new roofs. This loss has slowed down, because now days insurance companies won't even take you unless you put on a new roof before you contact them.
If her home is beneath the grade of the outer lip of the sink hole her home is at severe risk. The fractures throughout the organics and aggregate take the path of least resistance. If she's lower. She's in trouble
Where did I read one should not build one shifting sand but on solid rock? Oh yeah, paraphrased that is in a book that used to be a popular down there...
