Newcastle, CA: Sinkhole Drains Backyard Pond

[Skyfarmr]

It once took Mark Korb seven days to drain the pond in his Newcastle, California backyard. On Sunday, he woke up to find a sinkhole had accomplished the same feat in merely five hours.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/newcastle-calif-sinkhole-mark-korb_n_2908371.html

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Also a slide show of 21 Gigantic sinkholes when you scroll to bottom of that page

 

[mcb]

It once took Mark Korb seven days to drain the pond in his Newcastle, California backyard. On Sunday, he woke up to find a sinkhole had accomplished the same feat in merely five hours.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/newcastle-calif-sinkhole-mark-korb_n_2908371.html

video and story available at this link

Also a slide show of 21 Gigantic sinkholes when you scroll to bottom of that page

Yikes, that's hitting rather close to home. I used to live up that way, and it's not all that far from where I live now either.

 

[Laura]

Might be a precursor to an earthquake.