A sinkhole some 100 feet wide opened up Wednesday morning in Tarpon Springs, Florida, forcing the evacuation of several nearby residents. The large hole was reported near U.S. 19 at Mango Street, according to Fox 13 News. Water and sewer lines were ruptured by the sinkhole adjacent to the Tarpon Shores Mobile Home Park, the […]
Living in a home in South Florida, you have to make sure you protect your house from natural disasters with homeowner’s insurance. Although the most prominent type of disasters in South Florida are hurricanes, homeowner’s need to protect themselves from sinkholes or catastrophic ground collapse. Homes or commercial buildings that have confirmed sinkhole activity will […]
On March 2, 2015, a Florida couple and their five children woke up to noise that sounded “like a car crash” in the ground beneath their home near Tampa. “When they lifted back the carpet, they discovered a crack running across the floor and across the house,” prosecutors wrote in court documents. The house in […]
Sometime after the sun came up Wednesday, a woman walking her dog past a fenced-off area in a sleepy suburban neighborhood near Tampa, Florida, heard a loud rumble. She quickly dialed 911. The earth had opened, again. By Wednesday afternoon, a 17-foot wide and 20-foot deep sinkhole had formed in exactly the same place where […]
Six Tampa Bay, Fla., families were evacuated after a car fell into a hole that developed in a driveway. Pasco County officials say the hole that developed Monday in Holiday was 10 feet wide and 10 feet deep. County spokesman Doug Tobin says engineers had not confirmed that it was sinkhole. Officials say the mobile […]