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So now it's Ripon's turn:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-26236667
That's in the north of England. Where they also vote Conservative, so of no concern to Guy.
I think Ripon has something of a reputation as a sinkhole risk (literal, that is, not metaphorical, I'm sure it's a fine upstanding kind of place).
But more generally, this wave of sinkhole stories is getting silly. Might as well be in Florida ffs, except at least we don't have Disney thank God.
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Here you go, some context on the floods:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/posts/UK-flooding-put-in-context
Number of properties affected in Somerset - 40
Southern England as a whole - 800-900 properties
Coastal surge last December in Yorkshire - 688 properties
2007 Yorkshire & Humber - 23,479 properties flooded.
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A sinkhole in the making?
http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/artist_pair_announce_plans_to_preserve_former_de_b eauvoir_home_of_mole_man_which_features_elaborate_ tunnel_network_1_3337759
I know people who created a new (unofficial) room under the road in Islington, and basement excavations have become quite a thing recently. I think it's madness.
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The Baltimore incident wasn't really a sinkhole, but rather the collapse of a very old (19th c) railway embankment after an extended period of very heavy rain.
There have been similar, but less spectacular, incidents in a number of other parts of the Northeast this week.
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There are a number of different kinds, caused by different effects, but they all involve the creation of a subterranean void.
This is a decent primer.
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ursus arctos wrote: BTW, is anyone else having serious display issues on Chrome today?
My margins are all screwed up.
Dalliance's posts used to break my margins, although he seems to have removed the offending byline.
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That's a good explanation.
I live in an area of Karst topography. We have loads of sinkholes. They don't cause many disasters because the geologists and engineers know where they are and monitor them. Indeed, I've heard that the College of Earth Sciences building is on top of a known cavity. From time to time, a building - or the high school football stadium downtown, for example - will have to close while the engineers figure out a way to shore up the ground beneath it.
There's one not far from here. It doesn't look like a big mouth of hell. At first look, it just looks like a bit of property that didn't get developed with the rest of the neighborhood for some reason. But you can see the reason if you look more closely. It's a very deep ditch.
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