Some poor man sleeping in bed, when the bedroom disappeared down a sinkhole...
"A man was missing early Friday after a large sinkhole opened under the bedroom of a house near Tampa and his brother says the man screamed for help before he disappeared".
The 36-year-old man's brother told rescue crews he heard a loud crash around 11 p.m. Thursday, then heard his brother screaming for help.
"When he got there, there was no bedroom left," Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said. "There was no furniture. All he saw was a piece of the mattress sticking up."
The brother called 911 and frantically tried to help his brother. An arriving deputy pulled the brother from the still-collapsing house.
http://www.ajc.com/n...sinkhole/nWdSP/
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[Merged] Florida man swallowed by sinkhole
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Started by seeder , Mar 01 2013 02:13 PM
Started by seeder , Mar 01 2013 02:13 PM
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 02:13 PM
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me... It's all the rabbit poop you stumble over on your way down...
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 02:57 PM
I heard about this on my radio station. I hope the poor man is okay. ;.;
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 03:09 PM
Princess Serenity, on 01 March 2013 - 02:57 PM, said:
I heard about this on my radio station. I hope the poor man is okay. ;.;
Another source I read basically says its is not looking good for the man
"Rescue teams, unable to get into the still unstable structure in Seffner, Fla., have lowered a microphone and video equipment into the hole but have not heard from the 36-year-old man"
http://www.freep.com...wed-by-sinkhole
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:10 PM
I read this happens often in Florida. Hope the man isn't dead but its not looking good for him.
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 04:54 PM
What a horrible thing! OMG!
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 05:16 PM
Wow! I almost moved to Tampa.
They told me they never got a serious huricane in the area. Since then (1999) they've had four and the guy they hired instead of me was killed by an aligator! Now this!
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They told me they never got a serious huricane in the area. Since then (1999) they've had four and the guy they hired instead of me was killed by an aligator! Now this!
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 06:28 PM
This is terrible, sounds like a scene from a horror movie
From the article:
Officials and engineers are searching an unstable area of land after a sinkhole enveloped a Florida man’s bedroom in the middle of the night, sucking him down into the earth.
The man has not been heard from since the 20-foot-deep by 20-foot-wide hole opened underneath the Bush family’s Hillsborough County home late Thursday night, sending part of the house plummeting but leaving the exterior remarkably intact.
“They heard a sound they described as a car crash emanating from the bedroom,” Hillsborough County Fire Chief Ron Rogers said at a Friday morning news conference. “They rushed in. All they could see was part of a mattress sticking out of the hole. The floor ofthe room had opened.” At that point, one of the Bush family members jumped into the hole to try to rescue his brother, who the family could hear – but not see – in the sinkhole, Rogers said.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/01/17145165-sinkhole-sucks-florida-man-from-his-bedroom-into-the-earth?lite
From the article:
Officials and engineers are searching an unstable area of land after a sinkhole enveloped a Florida man’s bedroom in the middle of the night, sucking him down into the earth.
The man has not been heard from since the 20-foot-deep by 20-foot-wide hole opened underneath the Bush family’s Hillsborough County home late Thursday night, sending part of the house plummeting but leaving the exterior remarkably intact.
“They heard a sound they described as a car crash emanating from the bedroom,” Hillsborough County Fire Chief Ron Rogers said at a Friday morning news conference. “They rushed in. All they could see was part of a mattress sticking out of the hole. The floor ofthe room had opened.” At that point, one of the Bush family members jumped into the hole to try to rescue his brother, who the family could hear – but not see – in the sinkhole, Rogers said.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/01/17145165-sinkhole-sucks-florida-man-from-his-bedroom-into-the-earth?lite
Edited by OverSword, 01 March 2013 - 06:49 PM.
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 06:42 PM
That's insane... So horrible.
You forgot to psot the link to the article.
You forgot to psot the link to the article.
Edited by Coffey, 01 March 2013 - 06:42 PM.
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 06:49 PM
Coffey, on 01 March 2013 - 06:42 PM, said:
That's insane... So horrible.
You forgot to psot the link to the article.
You forgot to psot the link to the article.
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 06:52 PM
Does anyone here play or played Gears of war? We know what really caused this and what's coming... lol
Thank you.
OverSword, on 01 March 2013 - 06:49 PM, said:
My bad. It's up now
Thank you.
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 08:38 PM
lol yeah i play gears if that big ass worm is back for realy i want some thing bigger then just my lancer lol
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 08:41 PM
I recently read about this. What a horrible event. 
Can't even imagine the grief of the victim(presumed dead), family members and rescue personel unable to safely reach him, due to the currently expanding sinkhole, making rescue/retrival extemely dangerous as the house is collapsing.
I actually shed a tear when reading this elswhere.(CNN I think)
Can't even imagine the grief of the victim(presumed dead), family members and rescue personel unable to safely reach him, due to the currently expanding sinkhole, making rescue/retrival extemely dangerous as the house is collapsing.
I actually shed a tear when reading this elswhere.(CNN I think)
Edited by pallidin, 01 March 2013 - 08:56 PM.
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 09:59 PM
Holy dirt claudes! The earth is trying to pull each one of us into a early grave by eating us alive! Quick!! Somebody invent anti-gravity boots!
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Posted 01 March 2013 - 11:15 PM
It's a like a horror movie. You are sleeping in your bed and then the earth swallows you whole. 
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Posted 02 March 2013 - 06:13 AM
This is horrible! That just made it to my top scariest ways of dying...being swallowed by the earth while sleeping in the most safest place you think there is.
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