they pop out of nowhere and they’ll take
you down with them
welcome to watchmojo.com
to day we’ll be taking a look at
sinkholes those massive underground
holes you never knew were there until
it’s too late okay number five sinkholes
are caused by erosion
sinkholes form in areas where the ground
is made of soluble bedrock such as
limestone or dolomite water seeps into
the ground making cracks in the bedrock
until it is completely dissolved when
the layer of the ground above can no
longer be supported by bedrock it
collapses into the ground another factor
which causes sinkholes is human activity
poor infrastructure like broken sewer
pipes can cause flooding underground
which accelerates the erosion process
this is a problem in cities and leads to
sinkholes under roads making you late on
your morning commute sometimes very late
number four Central Florida is sinkhole
alley as if Gators hurricanes and rising
sea levels weren’t enough of a problem
anywhere you step in Florida you run the
risk of falling into a sinkhole between
2006 and 2010 Florida insurance
companies receive 24,000 sinkhole
related claims which totaled 1.4 billion
dollars there have been over 3,400
individual sinkholes reported in the
Sunshine State since 1945 and four
deaths including Jeffrey bush its the
sinkhole that swallowed Jeff as he slept
in bed with Rachel and her daughter
Hannah just a few rooms away this tampa
resident was fast asleep in his bedroom
when a sinkhole opened up underneath
pulling him in hearing Jeffrey screams
his brother tried to get him out but
Jeffrey’s body was never recovered I
love my mom and dad with all my heart
and I swore my mom and dad to know that
I love you not trying to save you son I
tried my hardest
number 3 sinkholes can be huge
not all sinkholes are created equal many
are only a few feet in depth and often
go unreported but then there are
sinkholes which are impossible to ignore
seventy-five miles wide and 50 miles
long the Kataria depression in Egypt is
the world’s largest natural sinkhole for
over a century various groups have
proposed using it to generate
hydroelectricity by connecting it to the
nearby Mediterranean Sea but no dice yet
at 2,000 172 feet the deepest sinkhole
in the world is China’s heavenly pit
which would be large enough for the
Shanghai Tower to fit in there’s one in
Bair’s neky Russia called the
grandfather which was 130 feet wide and
650 feet deep when it formed in 2007 and
grew to be over a thousand feet wide and
780 feet deep by 2012 and others are
even saying that their city is turning
into Atlantis the fictional island that
disappeared beneath the sea number two
sinkholes aren’t all that deadly but
they are costly every single time I turn
on the news sinkhole in South America
bunch of South American gets sucked into
the ground Cinco de Maya the spectacular
2007 Guatemala sinkhole which killed
three people has the highest death count
in reefs
but in most cases you’ll be able to dust
yourself off with minor injuries my halt
found himself being sucked 18 feet under
the ground fracturing his shoulder
that’s more likely to hurt is your
pocketbook in 1981 a sinkhole developed
in Winter Park Florida which swallowed
up a three-bedroom house a car
dealership with five Porsches and the
deep end of an Olympic sized swimming
pool causing four million dollars in
damage in 2014 eight cars valued at 1
million dollars from the National
Corvette Museum in Bowling Green
Kentucky fell into a sinkhole they were
all recovered but only three of them
were repairable however there was a
silver lining for the museum because
number one people would rather see
sinkholes than Corvettes a few months
after the Corvette Museum incident
attendance increased 59 percent because
of interest in the wreckage to recoup
some of their losses the museum sold
more than 2,300 jars containing remnants
of the sinkhole at $10 a pop if you’re
looking for something more highbrow in
sinkhole tourism you can check out the
cenotes along Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
from the Mayan word for well cenotes are
freshwater sinkholes which formed
millions of years ago and limestone
depressions they’re often connected to
underground caves and attract swimmers
and scuba divers from all over the world
at the bottom of some cenotes
archaeologists have found skeletons
believed to be human sacrifices to the
Mayan god of rain
we’ve got to me
so what do you think are you a little
bit worried about the ground beneath you
now for more earth-shattering top tens
and hole in the ground top fives be sure
to subscribe to watchmojo.com losers
you down with them
welcome to watchmojo.com
to day we’ll be taking a look at
sinkholes those massive underground
holes you never knew were there until
it’s too late okay number five sinkholes
are caused by erosion
sinkholes form in areas where the ground
is made of soluble bedrock such as
limestone or dolomite water seeps into
the ground making cracks in the bedrock
until it is completely dissolved when
the layer of the ground above can no
longer be supported by bedrock it
collapses into the ground another factor
which causes sinkholes is human activity
poor infrastructure like broken sewer
pipes can cause flooding underground
which accelerates the erosion process
this is a problem in cities and leads to
sinkholes under roads making you late on
your morning commute sometimes very late
number four Central Florida is sinkhole
alley as if Gators hurricanes and rising
sea levels weren’t enough of a problem
anywhere you step in Florida you run the
risk of falling into a sinkhole between
2006 and 2010 Florida insurance
companies receive 24,000 sinkhole
related claims which totaled 1.4 billion
dollars there have been over 3,400
individual sinkholes reported in the
Sunshine State since 1945 and four
deaths including Jeffrey bush its the
sinkhole that swallowed Jeff as he slept
in bed with Rachel and her daughter
Hannah just a few rooms away this tampa
resident was fast asleep in his bedroom
when a sinkhole opened up underneath
pulling him in hearing Jeffrey screams
his brother tried to get him out but
Jeffrey’s body was never recovered I
love my mom and dad with all my heart
and I swore my mom and dad to know that
I love you not trying to save you son I
tried my hardest
number 3 sinkholes can be huge
not all sinkholes are created equal many
are only a few feet in depth and often
go unreported but then there are
sinkholes which are impossible to ignore
seventy-five miles wide and 50 miles
long the Kataria depression in Egypt is
the world’s largest natural sinkhole for
over a century various groups have
proposed using it to generate
hydroelectricity by connecting it to the
nearby Mediterranean Sea but no dice yet
at 2,000 172 feet the deepest sinkhole
in the world is China’s heavenly pit
which would be large enough for the
Shanghai Tower to fit in there’s one in
Bair’s neky Russia called the
grandfather which was 130 feet wide and
650 feet deep when it formed in 2007 and
grew to be over a thousand feet wide and
780 feet deep by 2012 and others are
even saying that their city is turning
into Atlantis the fictional island that
disappeared beneath the sea number two
sinkholes aren’t all that deadly but
they are costly every single time I turn
on the news sinkhole in South America
bunch of South American gets sucked into
the ground Cinco de Maya the spectacular
2007 Guatemala sinkhole which killed
three people has the highest death count
in reefs
but in most cases you’ll be able to dust
yourself off with minor injuries my halt
found himself being sucked 18 feet under
the ground fracturing his shoulder
that’s more likely to hurt is your
pocketbook in 1981 a sinkhole developed
in Winter Park Florida which swallowed
up a three-bedroom house a car
dealership with five Porsches and the
deep end of an Olympic sized swimming
pool causing four million dollars in
damage in 2014 eight cars valued at 1
million dollars from the National
Corvette Museum in Bowling Green
Kentucky fell into a sinkhole they were
all recovered but only three of them
were repairable however there was a
silver lining for the museum because
number one people would rather see
sinkholes than Corvettes a few months
after the Corvette Museum incident
attendance increased 59 percent because
of interest in the wreckage to recoup
some of their losses the museum sold
more than 2,300 jars containing remnants
of the sinkhole at $10 a pop if you’re
looking for something more highbrow in
sinkhole tourism you can check out the
cenotes along Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
from the Mayan word for well cenotes are
freshwater sinkholes which formed
millions of years ago and limestone
depressions they’re often connected to
underground caves and attract swimmers
and scuba divers from all over the world
at the bottom of some cenotes
archaeologists have found skeletons
believed to be human sacrifices to the
Mayan god of rain
we’ve got to me
so what do you think are you a little
bit worried about the ground beneath you
now for more earth-shattering top tens
and hole in the ground top fives be sure
to subscribe to watchmojo.com losers
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