Florida's Sinkhole Problem
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Florida's sinkholes, a geological marvel and occasional hazard, trace their history back thousands of years. Formed by the dissolution of soluble bedrock, particularly limestone, beneath the Earth's surface, these depressions have shaped Florida's landscape. Over time, the state's unique hydrological conditions, characterized by porous limestone and fluctuating water levels, have made it particularly susceptible to sinkhole formation. Native Americans and early settlers navigated these natural features, but it wasn't until the 20th century that the phenomenon gained significant scientific attention. Today, Florida's sinkholes continue to captivate researchers, engineers, and residents alike, serving as a reminder of the dynamic forces shaping the Sunshine State's terrain.
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Mistake in the video. 0:14 You say "Disney Land"... Disney Land is in California. Disney World is in Florida.
I live in Orlando. I watched a sinkhole open up directly in front of my apt and ate a car right after Hurricane Ian.
Sinkholes are way scarier than hurricanes.
I was just in Orlando at Discovery Cove! Have you and your family been?
I was just in Orlando at Discovery Cove! Have you and your family been?
@@CrustyUgg lived here for 20 years and still havent done discovery cove even though i have a seaworld annual pass lol
I grew up in Jacksonville but never heard of them. It wasn't until the news about the guy in his house that got swallowed up and they never found him when I started reading about how often they happen around central Florida. I agree, way more terrifying than hurricanes.
Hurricanes are scary like, being chased by a werewolf! Sinkholes are scary, like an aneurysm.
I’m a native born Floridian and lived almost my entire life in the greater Orlando area and I remember the Winter Park sinkhole as it happened when I was a child. Most of the lakes in this area, including Lake Eola in downtown Orlando are old sinkholes. The fountain in Lake Eola was actually supposed to be more towards the center but they had to move it as they went to sink one of the concrete pillings only to have it disappear when they tried to drive it into the ground. The engineer said “I think we found the hole”.
I remember the winter park one, it swallowed a porsche dealer.
Sinkholes are NOT covered by homeowners insurance! 😢One would have to purchase a separate rider, like windstorm (hurricane) insurance. 😩And, would probably have to have a geologist use ground penetrating radar to assess risk; 😮I asked when I bought my central Florida home!🤔🤣 One of the most famous sinkholes is at the Corvette Museum I. Bowling Green, KY;. The collapse swallowed 8(?) Vettes; some were recovered, some totaled!! The museum has a display on it, including the cars rescued.
Living three years in Florida some friends of one of the guys I worked with barely escaped with their lives from a sinkhole.
They had just gone to bed and were arosed by calamitous noises. Realizing what was happening they ran outside in their night clothes just in time to see their house settle into a hole in the ground.
They lost everything but survived.
I was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. My sister currently lives in Odessa, Florida, about 30 miles north from where we grew up on the Tampa peninsula. She had a small sink hole in her back yard, she lives on approximately 1.1 acres of land. Luckily, it was small and didn't affect any structures on her property. The sink hole was filled with sand and cement and she's never had a problem with it since. The area is riddled with lakes, which are most likely caused by sink holes. In fact, a corner of her property consists of a small section of a lake. Growing up, I remember news reports of sink holes occurring all over the state, but mainly in the Orlando/Winter Park/Winter Haven areas.
Please note: Disneyland is in Anaheim, California. Walt Disney World is southwest of Orlando. Also, I've lived in Central Florida since 1961, and never worry about sinkholes. I just happened to drive over that Winter Park sinkhole about 8 hours before it started to collapse.
Here in California we yell "Earthquake", but in Florida you yell, "Sinkhole!"
Floridians also yell, Californians please stay away !!
If you're going to buy a piece of property 80 or more miles north of Lake Okeechobee you have to scan the potential purchase with ground penetrating radar. This would give you a complete picture of what's going on underneath the top crust. This prevents you from losing your apartment building like the people in Orlando
There have been several sinkholes just in my Central Florida neighborhood. One man's house teetered on the edge half collapsed in the hole. He lived in the back yard shed for years.
The Sinkhole that swallowed Jeff is in Seffner, Hillsborough Co.
I used to live approximately a mile or so away, I rode my bicycle down one day out of curiosity.
It is filled in and completely fenced off. In the middle of the sidewalk directly in front of the property there is a bronze placard in memoriam of Jeff.
It was just eerie. I was wholly uncomfortable knowing I was living that close to that.
You never do know, it can randomly come from above, or swallow you from below.
Such is this life!
So sad for Jeff
Omg, it reminded me of a Stephen King movie. Like, this is the reason given in that universe.
Kingsley Lake, in Florida, is the only naturally formed, perfectly round, lake in the United States, it is 2 miles across no matter where you measure it. It’s also a spring-fed lake with crystal clear water and it’s home to an Army National Guard base. There are two parks that you can visit with high dives, water slides, restaurants, and campgrounds. I would recommend this park to anyone with or without a boat for a day trip or a full week of fun.
Great one Ryan! I lived in Winter Park in 1981. I remember the sinkhole very well. Such an incredible disaster. I was about 9 years old, so it fueled my imagination. I was so glad that nobody was hurt. The fear of that happening became very real, after that. I remember the new avenue for tourism in the area too, as if it needed it! People were selling, I Survived the Winter Park Sinkhole t-shirts!
Ryan, excellent story. I live in Jacksonville which is 40 north of Kingsly Lake. Lakes nearby seem to have receding shorelines along with Kingsly Lake. 60 miles to the west of Jacksonville is Lake City, which has had many sink holes. One theory behind the uptick of sink holes is the need for fresh ground water as home construction continues. Ryan, I really look forward to you informative videos.
You may not be aware of a large sinkhole half way between Jacksonville and Lake City...know as Ocean Pond. A major Civil War battle was fought just east of Ocean Pond: the battle of Olustee.
The sinkhole is at least a mile in diameter
@@philgiglio7922 Oh yea. They still have Civil war enactments 2-3 times a years along with other festive activities. This whole sink hole biz is a concern for most Floridians.
I lived in Fort Lauderdale for a couple of years. Had no idea there was a sinkhole epidemic!
I would bet that swimming pool in winter park had a regular leak and nobody noticed it. The location of the hole was surely geological but a leak from that pool could cause this to happen.
I was thinking the same thing, the pool's shell was broken at it's deepest/weakest side which was feeding the center of the sinkhole
In some parts of England you can't buy or sell a house with a report on the ground it's on due to the abandoned mines in the areas
Btw- Sinkholes are everywhere around Frostproof, but mostly in cow pastures and farm land. It is always a huge fear of mine, and its from my childhood..
Disneyland is in California Disney World is in Florida
And the retirement community is called the villages, not the village
That sounds like the most Florida old person thing ever: We don't want to learn more about this phenomenon because it could hurt my home's value!
I used to live in Orlando and I would hear about sink holes on the news all the time
I lived in central Florida in the '70s as a teenager. I remember sinkholes making the local news from time to time. A house partially falling in to one, usually.
When you're looking at an aerial view of Florida weather from satellites or aerial photography from Planes every Round Lake you see is the result of a sinkhole
There was an incident just west of Lake City wherein a man went to bed and sometime around 3AM a sinkhole opened beneath his bedroom. He was Never seen again. This was about 20 years ago
I posted the above before you mentioned this event. My memory was faulty as to the date...it was only 10 years ago.
It was in Seffner Florida. Just west of Orlando.
Lifelong floridian here and sinkholes scare me much more than hurricanes. Speaking of, after hurricane Ian a few years ago a sinkhole opened right in front of my apt and ate a car.
@@kevhayden6506 ...there was also an incident in Lake City, and I thought that was the one he described
In South East Arizona it's like trenches called fissures.
After monsoons people may find a section of road missing and not be able to stop before driving into one.
It’s so cool to see a video relating to where I grew up, I grew up next to winter park right off of lee road and eli street and I use to go to the park next to lake road almost every day as a kid,it’s just so cool to see somthing I grew up seeing nearly every day be a vocal point of one of your videos
FYI : It’s focal, not “vocal” point.
You’re welcome!
Well, We actually cause many of the sinkholes. Especially during low rain periods we pull more water from the aquifers then the ground collapses into the void.
utilities usually pull from the deeper aquifers like the Floridian and most residential pulls from the shallower ones (Depending on the area, you could have up to five aquifers under you.
Shifting slabs are becoming quite common with the recent development of marshy areas which were rejected in the past. I work with water utilities and have seen many developments that were clear cut and a layer of 6~12 inches of fill dirt layered over the water logged soil and next the streets and slabs go in. You go back 5 years later and all the wood frame stucco houses are cracked. Stair step cracks in brick houses are also quite common here and you have to have the slab Ram jacked to level it back out - for a while.
Depressions in the roads are also common, but these are usually caused by a leak in the water main which is under the center of the road.
The soil is mainly sand and (Hopefully) some amount of clay, but many houses are built on layers of almost 100% sugar sand and since the city planners main priority is property taxes, permits are usually no more that a formality. If your looking at a home and the seller wants you to sign a hold-harmless against foundation shifts do yourself a big favor and run away.
Scott Lake, in Lakeland, was a popular lake to fish and ski on, in the years of my youth (70's). Then, a sinkhole opened up and, poof!...the lake was gone.
Everything. Gone.
It's coming back now, but it is quite a story.
The Lakeland Ledger newspaper archives should have more information if you're interested
Even major attractions have fallen victim to them as one of the biggest reasons behind why Horizons in EPCOT was closed was because of a sinkhole developing in the back left corner of the structure which was putting the integrity of the structure at risk of a partial collapse. It was initially a rumour which was later confirmed to be true when in the early stages of Mission Space’s construction on the former Horizons site they saw that they had filled in the sinkhole with concrete and I beam piles shortly after the land was cleared.
It is more common in FL, but we had one on the rural road I lived on in Central NY. It kept getting bigger, and the fire department kept throwing things into the hole. It just kept eating things. Our area had an underground river where all of our wells drew from. I think that may have something to do with the sinkhole. It was fenced off, and I don't know if it continued to grow because I moved.
Hi Ryan, now you have a subject matter very close to me, I live in SWFL Cape Coral and looking at your map looks like my area is very safe it show white shade area, THANKS YOU SO MUCH , here is something about SINKHOLES, my home owners ins policy WILL NOT COVER ANY DAMAGE FROM SINK HOLES, we had enough from Himocain Ian, Oh yes my house lots of damage in fact still working to finish up the work, almost done, well thanks for all you do and the investigation and research time you put in your subjects, be safe until next time THANKS...
A sinkhole opened up about 400 yards away from may house when I was a kid. Lady was just lying in bed reading her book and heard a loupe noise in her house. She’s jumped out her window and turned around to watch her home drop into the ground. Around a decade later they built a new mall near my town. Sinkhole opened up inside the mall, one swallowing a small inside playground for kids😂.
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Retention ponds really help. They will never eliminate them.
27°45'45"N 81°34'25"W is the remains of the Frostproof sinkhole. There is a Cadillac inside the garage, with motorcycle, AND the entire house is STILL buried there.
Karst geology is a hell of a thing. The coal mine subsidence is a big thing up here in parts of PA
Disneyland is in California.
Florida has Walt Disney World.
I moved to Florida from Ohio and I had numerous sinkholes on my farms there. It's geologically called Karst, a soft limestone that dissolves when water passes through it. Caves are similar just lateral. If you have limestone you can have sinkholes
I live just up the street from Lake Rose and my pops lives on 12 acres in Weeki Wachee FL, he has 3 sinkholes on his property
You seem to forgotten about the one couple of years ago in Alabama that swallowed an entire Corvette museum. Super deep.....
Just my opinion, but these sprinkler systems/ground water pumps installed in every home here contributes to the problem. The ground water is being depleted which actually supports the top soil.
I seem to remember some good advice about whether to build my home on rock or sand. I think it was Bob Vila.
I wish this video talked about the over consumption of ground water and how that is causing more collapses.
I live in Southwest Missouri we have a lot of sinkholes here. Not far from my house to die Rob how many was running down the nature trail that runs behind my house is about 3 miles down to the lake and they didn’t find him for like a couple of days but then somebody walking on the trail heard him calling he had fallen in a small sinkhole. I dated a man who lives in Florida and he was buying a house and it was so bizarre to me we would go look at these houses and there would be notes in the realtors information about avoid backyard because of the sinkhole why would we be buying such a house?
I remember the sink hole in Winter Park in 1981...right now that area is a youth play ground and houses in that area go for 700 thousand to well over a million...sinkholes are nothing new to Florida....they are more noticed now because everyone wants to live here and they are building houses on every sqaure inch of land...that plus the insane traffic....I'm told repeatedly i live in heaven...
I can't remember where I read this, but I read about a sinkhole near Gainesville that swallowed an entire neighborhood in the early 1900's
Wow cool video! Now, Winter Park is a highly desirable affluent area! (I live nearby.) 🙂
Having lived in Orlando, Gainesville, Ocala and other areas of the state and being a spelunker (Florida Speleological Society), I know all about sinkholes without watching your video. Florida is underlain with limestone which gets dissolved and forms caves, if the cave gets larger it can eventually collapse forming a sinkhole. I do not know if ground penetrating RADAR can warn of impending collapse but even if it could the cost would be enormous.
We had a sinkhole on our Florida campus😘. It s
Cost at least $250k over six months to fill in. When the contractor thought he was done the hole opened up even wider
Yes, there are a lot of sinkholes in Florida. Scott Lake in Lakeland Florida, has strained into the limestone abyss twice. And yet another sinkhole opened last spring up across the street from the lake. I remember that sinkhole on Fairbanks in Winter Park. That car dealership was one of the only places in the area that restored and repaired Porsche model cars. My bosses Porsche was one of those that was pulled from the edge of the abyss.
Sinkholes are only a problem west of the St. Johns River and a few areas like DeLand where the ground is limestone. The Atlantic coast is a giant sand bar, and there is no danger of sinkholes. The other thing to consider when buying land in Florida is dry lakes, particularly around Putnam County, and subdivisions that are always 1 foot under water, like Cape Atlantic Estates.
I live north of Tampa and I bought a house and I had to pay $40k to have a special company come in and fix the sink hole they found under my house
WE have them in Interlachen , Fl. My husband was a well driller snd the had to pull the rig out with a large truck it was tittering on the edge.
Thanks Florida Rock company.
8.44 they removed the camper van from the scene before attempting to fill it with dirt and concrete. Why would they want to fill the camper with dirt and concrete? Lol
Did you get a good look at it?
Jes' sayin'...
It's Exciting!
grew up near Lake Rose
I grew up on a 140 acre farm between Franklin and Bowling Green, Kentucky. Sinkholes were a fact of life. We had a huge one behind one of our ponds, but sometimes the ground would sink behind a plow or a heavy piece of equipment. If you fly over karst topography, it looks like the landscape has been bombed. In Kentucky I don’t think you can do much about it, but in Florida I think that we often cause it or exacerbate it by depleting the aquifer.
I imagine you meant shut down Disney World not Disney Land.
Otherwise that’s one heck of a sink hole lol
I HAVE SEEN SMALL SINK HOLE IN ORMOND BEACH FL. THEY FILLED IT IN AND THEN A COUPLE YEARS LATER BUILT A TWO STORY HOME ON THAT PROPERTY. THE HOME SEEMS FINE SO FAR.
Ryan I cant remember what i had for breakfast but thanks
The mouth of hell has opened up on earth 👍🏼
Can you buy an insurance policy to cover loss of land as well as house?
Where are you producing?
Phosphate mining is the main reason why they're escalating now 😢 Kingsley lake used to be the spot to go to when I was a kid and then they sold it to private company😢
Is it like “quicksand” all over??? It’s so scary!… I’ve been thinking about moving to Florida, but I’m scared of floods, because I hardly know how to sit down in low shore water!😂😂😂
Gonna get worse with Sinkhole de Mayo just a couple months away
Disneyland is in California not Florida . Sinkholes make the news all the time. They have been studied.
Nice. One of my phobias.....
8:34 this sentence feels really oddly written. I'm sure you meant they tried to fill the sinkhole with dirt and concrete but it definitely reads like the RV owner tried to fill the RV with dirt and concrete lol...
When I lived in Sebring, Florida, I bought a USGS topographic map of the area.
Topo maps show contours of elevation in the land and I was amazed by how many sink hole depressions showed up on the map.
You can't visibly see them driving around but they're there.
What direction is the underground water moving? Why is it moving in that direction? Whats the elevation of all of the sink hole lakes? Im guessing theyre all the same elevation and are linked together below the surface
The whole state is going to sink into the ocean eventually.
More likely sea levels rising will submerge most of the state. Miami is already experiencing flooding at neap tides.
Thankfully we live in what is maybe the highest elevation in the state.
Yes!! And Florida I think Haul can open up anywhere at any time whether it be under your house or in the middle of a busy street it doesn’t matter. Sinkholes can pop open whenever and wherever they were and Florida! That’s another very scary part about living in Florida that I don’t like!
I was wondering if the rise in climate temperature and sea level would have any effect on Florida sink holes.
I’m a lifelong resident of Florida and these things happen all the time. If it continues the entire state is going to sink away. No insurance for this either. I’m on my 15th home.
Fun fact- Many sinkholes occur during the dry season in Florida, Jan--April, due to OVER pumping the aquifer for agriculture..IE- Strawberries..
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There was a sink hole in Minnesota
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Disneyland is in California...
I live in Florida and have been talking about this, I'm convinced my current location is the next site of an upcoming sinkhole!! Scary to think history has earned that one day Florida will be completely under the sea.... and each new hurricane threatens and makes this theory seem much too real!!
I was certified to dive in a Florida sink hole that was just a well at one point .
Just another great reason not to move to Florida.
Better than California.
I've lived in Florida for 14 years now the place isn't perfect lots of crazy people but there's a lot of benefits to living in some places in Florida it's why so many people are moving here honestly I wish they didn't
Florida is great you must be a lib 😬
Florida is packed with people from other states , i wish Florida had closed boarders .
@@butterfinger4393if they did, no one would be able to properly spell border.
Holy Crap! The beginning of this video zooms in to Florida. But it literally zoomed into my hometown, Frostproof. The 2 lakes, on the Right is Lake Reedy, on Left Lake Clinch. My childhood home is on Lake Reedy. To this day. I was away at college in 1991, or 92, when an entire home at 0:52 in video, IS THAT HOWE. My HS classmate lived in that home. There is a Cadillac AND Harley Davidson, STILL buried under the soil there. To this day. Frostproof, pop-2000, representing. 😅
There is a small sinkhole in the backyard. A couple of years ago, an eighty-year-old woman stepped in it and caught herself from falling into it. Huh?
I’m grateful I live on the central east side of the state. There’s not as much problems here.
Sinkhole de Mayo 🎉
Lived in St Augustine, Fl for 28 years never a problem. Miss it but duty called.
yea i’ve know. all too well about florida n their sinkholes. i think ever since hearing about that poor man that got swallowed up by one in his bed i was horrified. i only go there to go on cruises but that’s it
Cruises : More environmental degradation that should NOT be happening!
How many reasons do people need to get the hell out of Florida? I escaped finally 5 years ago.
They were talking about the state pumping out too much groundwater being pumped out sixty years ago.
The area where the majority of them happen there's also several national fresh water springs scattered all over the area
What happened to the dog that warned of the sinkhole
That's one enormous sinkhole. Forms in Florida and causes issues at Disneyland (which is in California).
I have to watch my toes. Unstable ground lies beneath me.
My first experience was in 1959, when I was 4 years old. A whirlpool flooded an anthracite mine tunnel when workers dug 6 feet beneath the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania. Twelve miners died and another 69 escaped. The railroad shoved dozens of 34-foot-long coal cars to seal the chasm. The cars were sucked into the void as if they were toys. My parents and I lived 7.9 miles away from the catastrophe.
As in Poland, the Wyoming Valley is honeycombed with underground mines. My mother tells of hearing the miners’ pickaxes scraping beneath the family homestead.
As an adult, I moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the heart of karst topography. Underground beds of limestone are ideal for sinkholes in the Lehigh Valley. I did my banking business one-half mile away at a multi-store office building. In 1994, Corporate Plaza slid partway into a sinkhole, just eight years after the Plaza was built.
Before that happened, II moved down the road to Bethlehem City. In the late 1990s, a sinkhole began swallowing the front yard of the home of a couple in their late 80s. They escaped. The gap stretched 25 feet from their front sidewalk toward a few feet of their house. We lived two blocks away (0.2 mile).
After I relocated to another home in Bethlehem, three homes began sliding into a sinkhole in 2016 along a busy street leading to the central business district. No one was injured. The sinkhole was filled with rock and soil, seeded and fenced off. I can’t imagine what the neighbors on each side of the missing houses must feel. I live about three blocks away (0.1 mile away).
These chasms open routinely in the Lehigh Valley. Leaky water mains, dry weather, wet weather, new construction-the cause doesn’t matter.
Naturally I always have a rider to my property insurance policy that covers sinkhole damage. I must. Every time I walk past that fenced-in lawn where three houses once stood, I wonder whether my house will be next. Move? I can't afford it. I keep my fingers crossed.
I have lived in Florida and have never seen a sink hole sink.
My professional career involves the remediation of sinkholes. Anytime you have limestone, you will be susceptible to sinkholes. Luckily, there are fixes to them when they occur.
Sad, 2 porsches are still burried smh
You care about 2 cars?
smh
Florida: If the weather don't kill ya the ground will swallow you up.
Also bugs. And humidity. Eeesh.
Disneyland is in California.
& Disneyland is also Orlando Florida
& Disneyland is also Orlando Florida
& Disneyland is also Orlando Florida
& Disneyland is also Orlando Florida
& Disneyland is also Orlando Florida