Sinkhole in Brooklyn big enough to drive a truck into

[fbrdphreak]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/nyregion/28sink.html

About 3:30 a.m. yesterday, Nancy Batista was stopped at a traffic light in her Ford Explorer on Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, headed south, as in toward the South Pole.

A few seconds later, she was heading south as in toward the center of the earth.

A burst water main had scoured away the earth beneath the surface of the street, and Ms. Batista's two-ton Ford Explorer broke through the asphalt and fell in. The hole was 10 feet deep. But Ms. Batista was lucky: her S.U.V. landed on a gas main about four feet down. Ms. Batista, 46, escaped with only bruises and cuts, doctors said.

The whole neighborhood around Fourth Avenue and 73rd Street, in Bay Ridge, was lucky. The gas main did not burst into flames. Gushing water did not flood the neighborhood. No one lost power, or gas, or water service.

:laugh:
That sucks!!

 

[nboy22]

holy shiat!

 

[Crono]

So that's why the R train wasn't in service. I knew about the SUV from 1010 in the morning, but I didn't know it affected the subway there.

 

[thawolfman]

:Q

 

[jagec]

New York has really, really awful roads, considering how much wealth is concentrated there.

 

[GrammatonJP]

THis is why I dont lower my car anymore... its'll bust my axles right out..

 

[mitaiwan82]

wtf! overpopulated city ftl

 

[Jikininki]

wow..so if she hadn't landed on the gas pipe..she would've kept on falling? Obviously I know she wouldn't fall forever...but the point of saying she was lucky landing on a gas pipe was b/c she could've fallen too deep to get to? is that what they mean?

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: jagec
New York has really, really awful roads, considering how much wealth is concentrated there.

the same can be said for any state

 

[EvilYoda]

I saw this on CNN late yesterday night...that was one deep sink hole...but they had said that she got out of the car when the ground started rumbling...?

 

[UncleWai]

:Q
If I was her I would be shatting my pants.

 

[Shadowknight]

NYC is probably going to enjoy a nice, fat, law suit. Completely justified, in this instance.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: bonkers325

Originally posted by: jagec
New York has really, really awful roads, considering how much wealth is concentrated there.

the same can be said for any state

No, NYC's roads are astonishingly bad.
Virginia has some really nice roads, Rhode Island (at least in Providence) has awful ones, now that they finished repaving in a lot of areas SF has good ones too. But NYC stands out in terms of wealth/road quality.

 

[cHeeZeFacTory]

that could've been one big explosion if the suv broke the gas main

 

[SWScorch]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: bonkers325

Originally posted by: jagec
New York has really, really awful roads, considering how much wealth is concentrated there.

the same can be said for any state

No, NYC's roads are astonishingly bad.
Virginia has some really nice roads, Rhode Island (at least in Providence) has awful ones, now that they finished repaving in a lot of areas SF has good ones too. But NYC stands out in terms of wealth/road quality.

My gf and I were in NYC last week, and we saw so many potholes big enough to actually cause damage. She was driving at one point and saw a huge pothole just in time to swerve; if she hadn't I seriously believe we would have become stuck. The thing was at least 3 feet across and a foot deep.

 

[Baked]

LOL, I'm gonna save that for my WTFPWN moment pic.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: cHeeZeFacTory
that could've been one big explosion if the suv broke the gas main

That's what I was thinking! :Q

I'm not sure if I'd call that lucky. :Q More like lucky that she didn't break it.