Sinkhole opens under Florida house; man feared dead
The hole opened up in his bedroom and swallowed him up. Five people, including a two-year-old, made it out of the house, and surrounding houses were evacuated. I would say this is yet another reason not to live in Florida (I give you alligators, boas, and heat), but the same type of karst topography, where groundwater eats holes in the limestone below the surface, is found in Kentucky. (You might have heard of something called Mammoth Cave, for example, but Kentucky is riddled with caves.) And sinkholes happen here as a result. How horrible for the family. Police pulled his brother away from the sinkhole as he tried to find him because it was expanding and they feared he would be swallowed as well, and things remained too unstable to try to save the man.
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