See what the Land O Lakes sinkhole looks like today, three years after it swallowed two homes and damaged nearly a dozen others. Includes video and photos.
@@andecap1325 No..I know you are making light Andecap but that is some vert bad water..filthy polluted.. Not good..probably smelly too Do not know hoa anyone would stay . .cannot be easy to sell home after a sinkhole opened up..but it was a sinkhole area before the houses went up.. One of life's most expensive investments ..need to be discerning and examine everything.. Bible 1 Thessalonians 5:21, NLT: "but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good."
@@estelleschneider9033 How bout everybody worship gods sinkholes and use the tax free empty churches for housing the masses since you must mutlipy and replenish the earth and make room for more spirits to come down to suffer a test in cruel world.
Due to the geology, most of Florida is one big, potential sinkhole. If people choose to live there, they probably just consider this an acceptable risk. Unfortunately, eventually, the odds are going to run against someone.
Wow, just found your update thanks! If me, and hopefully those with insurance did, I would get out for good. Note, the two home owners that had the back yards backing up to the 2 homes destroyed have demolished their homes an just empty lots now. Must have had severe damage and if insured, I would do same & relocate ASAP. My family safety as all others too, is main priority. I can't imagine moving back in near by homes, especially the one between the hole & lake, across what was the street! I'd never be able to sleep, that house is doomed!!!
@@lewisbale1 If it was filled in, then this wouldn't have occurred. The houses were built on one of the many thousands upon thousands of existing natural domes that exist in Florida, and it was time for this one to give out.
I'd be terrified that my house would get swallowed up if I lived in that community. But I guess it may be hard to sell a house nextdoor to a hole that swallowed up 2 of your neighbors houses.
Looks like a mosquito breeding ground to me. I would also move out of that area. I lived in Florida lots of years. You never know where those sink holes will be. Sometime right in middle of the road.
As is all of Florida. They are so bad the counties send out trucks to spray poison on a regular schedule. I left the state after 3 years. Scorpions, poisonous snakes, fire ants and too many transient people and pedophiles.
@@clearascrystal4960 - I lived in Florida 25 years, and never heard it referred to as “land o’ lakes”. There is a Land o’ Lakes town in Pasco County, FL, but not the entire state. Land o’ Lakes is in Paul, Minnesota, where the butter of the same name is made. Minnesota’s nickname is “Land of 10,000 Lakes”. Minnesota is on our northern border with Canada. But I do understand what you mean.
@@AmbitiousRandomness thanks so much for posting. I’m visiting from Alaska staying at Wesley chapel, and was going to look to by real estate around the area. Not anymore 😳
It's fresh water, but we didn't see any fish. However there were some turtles living in the water. If you look closely at the video, we caught one of them on the water's surface.
Sure if fresh water the frogs (esp Cuban frogs they are EVERYWHERE CALLING AT NIGHT) gators n turtles( FISH EVENTUALLY) but between plants insects n amphib.,and reptiles, n turtles they can all have each other for food, if not already, they should indeed would wander in. They R everywhere in Fla; puddles, pools,swamps ,yards ,gullies no sewers here either so they live or hang in the storm ditches or gullies not sure of the Floridian term.Suffice to say there are critters w out fur everywhere...
@Pull Myfinger I DID , IM OLDER NOT AN EXCUSE BUT BY THE TIME I LOOK THINGS UP I FORGET WHY I NEEDED TO KNOW.....WORDS POP IN OUT OF MY HEAD.. BUT THANKS FOR THE CORRECT SPELLING. Amphibion shoot I think I ALREADY FORGOT AGAIN. AMPHIBION Ill re check Thanks again.
This government Punk telling people in 11 homes to stay away after they knew in allow these homes to be built in a sinkhole area. I would take this guy to court and take everything has take him to quart take his dog take his goldfish Sue his mother and father
First of all: thank you very much for updated video! First there was a shock that people are still living around and didn't move away, but then I understood... they don't have a choice, because they won't be able to sale their houses. I don't think that anybody will want to buy houses around and because of this poor people are just stocked there. It is good if they have money just to left from houses around, but other people can't afford it. They can't move and they can't sale houses around. So sad! AND SCARY!!! 😥
So they scooped out all the house remnants? Did they fill it with anything like dirt or rock? I don't think I'd want to live anywhere near it and certainly not right next to it. I wonder how deep it actually turned out to be?
Yes, they removed most of the debris but the hole remained filled with water and is now the small pond as seen in the video. They estimated 50 feet deep at the onset, but due to erosion and settling, it's probably only 20 feet deep or so today. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the compliment. Unfortunately, I never heard where they ended up going. I believe when it was all said and done, they ended up tearing down two additional homes (that had significant structural damage) that were behind the main two, for a total of 4 homes completely gone. Thanks for watching!
So sorry to bother you, but there were two houses behind those that were swallowed, and I see that they are now gone. (You can still see impressions on the ground from where they sat) Were they demolished because of the sink hole? Because it looked like they were farther away than the others around it. Just wondering. Personally, I would be very nervous living on any land between that sink hole and that nearby river.
I wonder why the two houses behind the sinkhole had to be condemned but not the two right next to it and the one across the street that is attached to the Lake.
I'm not sure.... I know that there was a lot of discussion with the insurance companies and how they would remediate, but not sure why some were condemned and others weren't.
There is a huge difference between natural sink holes and man made catastrophes, such as shoddy construction, poor maintenance and sub standard elements used to build buildings. The Miami building disaster had nothing to do with a natural occurrence, such as a sink hole.
The State shouldn't get a say. Its people's private property. Quit giving the government all control. Stop and really think things like that through before you advocate complete government oversight. Please.
People bought those houses with their life savings. As a result people unfortunately do not have the money to move. The insurance companies don't like to pay out that much money. In Pasco county, insurance companies won't insure people's houses for sinkhole damage. Its been like that for many decades, but if someone from the north movies there, they don't know how horrible sinkholes in that country.
Government shouldn't remove people at all unless they are willing to give the home owner's all their money back. 💰 because to sell it now they loose more than triple they paid.
The other thing I was thinking - Its interesting that in the first video they said that they knew a sinkhole was there. I guess there isn’t much you can do about it, but it sure brings a lot of questions come to mind. The biggest of all - when did they know this sinkhole was there and did they inform the people that lived there, or who were buying property and/or houses there? I would image it would be hard now to get out unless you’re willing to leave it all behind and get nothing for your property. Whose going to want to buy a house in that area now?
Donna ML my question is, if they knew there was a sinkhole, why on Earth did they fill it in and build on it? If anyone would’ve died their blood would’ve been on the developers hands! It was a very irresponsible and evil thing to do.
@Levana Hyll, yes, it’s scary to think that developers could hide such a thing. Hard to believe. It’s been awhile since I saw this video, but the one thing I walked away with was that if you’re going to buy a house or build a house in such areas to do a lot of research about the history of the area to know if it’s sound/stable. If it has any history of sinkholes I’d look elsewhere. Better pay a bit more but you and your house won’t fall into a whole in the earth one day.
Yea to have water in the front and back of me....I'm good on that. Florida's mosquitoes get so bad sometimes you end up swallowing one by mistake the city has to go around and spray at night to keep them bearable
We're the homes built on a filled pond or something similar? Will the homes built between the sink hole and lake eventually sink also? Grow trees around the pond to hold the land together.
This has got to dramatically affect the value of the properties nearby. Who would want to buy on any side of this sink hole or even in the neighborhood!
And I was considering of moving to Tampa area, no way in HELL. I talked to people who said these don't happen very ofte, STILL it's something that can happen anytime. Like earthquakes in California, one of the reasons why I wanna move out.....Guess I have to look for another place....maybe outside of the US xD
Hello Reyna, yes, they can form in several ways. The most common way is for ground water to erode the limestone below, causing the ground above to eventually collapse. Most sinkholes are small and don't do any damage. This one was particularly large and may have had a man-made component to it (it occurred in an area that had previously been part of lake that was filled in - many years ago). Thank you for watching!
Hello tool fan, it's hard to tell, but I would guess it's only 15-20 feet deep today. There was a lot of sediment that had filled the hole. Thanks for watching!
Well the people in the neighborhood are stuck because nobody in their right mind is going to buy there. I live in Florida and your going to get sinkholes because of what we are sitting on. That being said sucking all this fossil fuels out from underground and not replacing it with anything ,you might see this happening elsewhere.
Hello Pat, the hole was originally estimated to be about 50 feet deep, however due to erosion and sediment deposit, it is likely less than 15-20 feet deep today. Mitigation crews were able to get most of the debris out of the hole (that the family was later able to sift through for anything salvageable) but some things were unable to be successfully retrieved due to being completely buried. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how the family fared in terms of compensation as those were all private proceedings. Thank you for watching.
People are living on top of a lake . That sinkhole will grow slowly. Lakes are sinkholes that were expanding for thousands of years. People must know that in a long period of heavy rains that could last a week they should check that the windows and doors can be closed easily.
Florida is very sandy all over. I honestly believe other homes in this area HAVE to be at risk. Would you want to build a home and live there over a past sink hole? I wouldn't. But then I wouldn't live in Florida anyway.
I don't believe the boat survived... but fish would be a nice addition! If you look closely in the video you'll see a small turtle who's made a home there. Thanks for watching!
I'm not aware of anyone trying to dive it. The bottom is pretty full of silt now and is probably only about 25 feet deep at its deepest point. Something good to ponder though! Thanks for watching!
Fences are required around most bodies of water (like pools and small ponds near roadways) for a number of reasons, mainly all related to safety. The primary two are to keep small children from wandering into the water and to keep alligators out. Great observation, and thank you for watching!
During the time of the original event it was estimated to be as deep as 50 feet. Today, with all the sediment that has settled, it's probably less than 20 feet deep. Thank you for watching!
I saw a documentary a few years ago about Florida, it's water aquafer and sinkholes. It cited the massive amounts of water that are taken from the aquafer to keep the commercial citrus orchards and gardens in that area growing. The result can be that the aquafer is depleted and not replenished quickly enough by rain, so it weakens the ground above so there ends up being sinkholes.
Its a clear green water pond on video. However, what happened to all the houses debris seen on video when they were all sinking like quick sand? If l were an engineer? I would use a helicopter with a large rope attached to a heavy metal or ankle and send it down to go under in the middle of the pond to know how deep is the sink hole? So, they can determined if its worthly to continued living there and all the rest of the other houses? IF it's really deep? That sinkhole will meet underneath with the lake nearby and all those other houses will be gone too...a tragedy waiting to happen..Especially if it happens at night, while house owners and their families are sleeping? Omg😣😣😣☹☹☹😥😥😥
Good luck to any of those homeowners directly around that sinkhole when it comes time to sell their property. I realize, all of Florida is one big, potential sinkhole. But you know how people feel plays a big role in the real estate game and this is a huge "curb appeal" negative. I bet this also hurt the neighbors regarding continuing homeowner's insurance on their properties.
It actually does have a few fish and some turtles in it now, and that's probably how it will be from here on out as there are no plans to do anything else with it. Thanks for watching!
@passinthru In some places yes, for oil and natural gas. However, fracking isn't really necessary since there are ample reserves available, which is why you don't see it very often.
I feel sorry for them, but how they knew at 7 AM there home will sinking. Befor any thing happen, the camera was ready. Thank god , every body is okay,& nothing happen to them.
@@the60s87 We're not sure in this particular case, but typically in a catastrophic event like this, they do. For normal sinkhole activity, such as cracks in floors, walls, and ceilings however, they do not, unless you have sinkhole coverage on your homeowner's policy. Thank you for watching!
@@rosewoodsteel6656 It very well could be, but I'm not positive. Sinkhole prevalence is higher here than anywhere in the country, so it may just be for Florida. I priced it once and it was exorbitantly expensive. Thanks again for watching!
Nicely done. I was looking for an update and found this. I sure wouldn't want to live nearby. I owned a house in So. Cal. that had the Holy Fire in the back yard and 4 months later, 2 massive mudslides in the front. It's a horrible experience.
I googled this location about an hour ago. Street view hasn't been updated but the satellite view has and shows the hole with the fence. I'm surprised that they didn't try to fill it in.
I would be afraid that this sink hole would flush like a toilet and take more homes with it, some where under ground it's got to connect to the lake, it's just a matter time before this thing gets bigger, with all the earthquakes that's been going on and all the hurricanes and storms I'd done been gone, and I sure wouldn't stay anywhere near the southern states.
Thank you for this update. After seeing the first video I was wondering what it looked like today 06/2020. I looked at Google Map and it shows it as it was sometime before the sinkhole happened in 2017 - houses and a road which no longer exist. Shows how often Google map updates... I’ve seen maps that have houses and businesses that were from 10 years ago. Places that no longer exist. Not to mention new businesses and houses that are there today that are not on these maps. You’d think they would at least update their addresses at least what you see from a satellite image. So many maps are completely inaccurate.
I'm glad they cleaned it up and let it be as nature intended, there is no point in fighting this type of natural disaster. This is how a great number of lakes are formed in Florida. Filing it up and trying to build again over would be immoral and irresponsible to any new person moving in.
Hello Tasha, the area still looks the same today as it did a little over a year ago when we did this video. Because nothing else is expected to change, we probably won't do another update until next year when it'll be the 5 year anniversary. Thanks for watching!
3 years later and the houses right by there are moving back.... I would never set foot there again...
I'd only go get my stuff..
No way could I live there, especially next door!
all you gotta do is throw some sand around it, put some fish in and put in a houseboat.
@@andecap1325 I think I actually saw a fish in there.
@@andecap1325 No..I know you are making light Andecap
but that is some vert bad water..filthy polluted..
Not good..probably smelly too
Do not know hoa anyone would stay . .cannot be easy to sell home after a sinkhole opened up..but it was a sinkhole area before the houses went up..
One of life's most expensive investments ..need to be discerning and examine everything.. Bible
1 Thessalonians 5:21, NLT: "but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good."
@@estelleschneider9033 How bout everybody worship gods sinkholes and use the tax free empty churches for housing the masses since you must mutlipy and replenish the earth and make room for more spirits to come down to suffer a test in cruel world.
I'm in awe with these sink holes. And aren't the surrounding homes afraid this will happen to them?
Due to the geology, most of Florida is one big, potential sinkhole. If people choose to live there, they probably just consider this an acceptable risk. Unfortunately, eventually, the odds are going to run against someone.
What are they gonna do? Who'ed buy their house. These are average middle class houses & it's likely the owners can't afford to move without selling.
Homes are inanimate, non-sentient things incapable of feeling fear.
@@psychosneighbor1509 Hahaahahahahahahahah. I'm dead. XD
@@psychosneighbor1509 Thank you, Mr. Spock.
Wow, just found your update thanks! If me, and hopefully those with insurance did, I would get out for good. Note, the two home owners that had the back yards backing up to the 2 homes destroyed have demolished their homes an just empty lots now. Must have had severe damage and if insured, I would do same & relocate ASAP. My family safety as all others too, is main priority.
I can't imagine moving back in near by homes, especially the one between the hole & lake, across what was the street! I'd never be able to sleep, that house is doomed!!!
On the bright side, the few adjacent homes which are still standing are now lake front properties
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That’s a pond
that puddle is what gators love
Always an upside😄
True
I would get the hell out. It is just a matter of time and the swamp will take everything back.
Dorothy Simpson yep, It seems like that part was drained and filled in someone developed it without letting the home owners know .
I know right. Evacuate Florida !!! Oh wait, did you just mean the neighborhood? Either one
@@lewisbale1
If it was filled in, then this wouldn't have occurred. The houses were built on one of the many thousands upon thousands of existing natural domes that exist in Florida, and it was time for this one to give out.
@@lewisbale1 in the original video..they said there was a sinkhole there previously that was filled in before the house was built..
I'd be terrified that my house would get swallowed up if I lived in that community. But I guess it may be hard to sell a house nextdoor to a hole that swallowed up 2 of your neighbors houses.
Looks like a mosquito breeding ground to me. I would also move out of that area. I lived in Florida lots of years. You never know where those sink holes will be. Sometime right in middle of the road.
Stock it with fish, they'll eat the mosquitos.
Open it up for fishing after a year of stocking.
@@lostinkansasonasunnyday305 you donf want people near the hole. It can keep collapsing taking people with it.
Other water nearby, this isn’t going to increase the bug life much.
Thank you! That’s exactly what I thought! 😳 🦟
As is all of Florida. They are so bad the counties send out trucks to spray poison on a regular schedule. I left the state after 3 years. Scorpions, poisonous snakes, fire ants and too many transient people and pedophiles.
Florida looks like a piece of Swiss cheese. I lived there 25 years.....too many sink holes.
Why it's called the "land o lakes"? :) interesting
@@clearascrystal4960 - I lived in Florida 25 years, and never heard it referred to as “land o’ lakes”. There is a Land o’ Lakes town in Pasco County, FL, but not the entire state. Land o’ Lakes is in Paul, Minnesota, where the butter of the same name is made. Minnesota’s nickname is “Land of 10,000 Lakes”. Minnesota is on our northern border with Canada.
But I do understand what you mean.
@@mchapman132 Got it, thanks. Just being silly. :)
@@clearascrystal4960 - :)
Thanks for posting this update, I've been wondering what it looks like now.
My pleasure. Even though this video was shot almost a year ago, it still looks exactly the same today. Thanks for watching!
@@AmbitiousRandomness thanks so much for posting. I’m visiting from Alaska staying at Wesley chapel, and was going to look to by real estate around the area. Not anymore 😳
@@ermamilspaugh Welcome to Florida! Thanks for watching!
Is there any sort of ecosystem developing in the sinkhole? Any fish or aquatic life I wonder......
I hope so but if its saltwater it might be difficult.
@@toriladybird511 i heard fish can live in saltwater, you know like in the ocean
It's fresh water, but we didn't see any fish. However there were some turtles living in the water. If you look closely at the video, we caught one of them on the water's surface.
Sure if fresh water the frogs (esp Cuban frogs they are EVERYWHERE CALLING AT NIGHT) gators n turtles( FISH EVENTUALLY) but between plants insects n amphib.,and reptiles, n turtles they can all have each other for food, if not already, they should indeed would wander in. They R everywhere in Fla; puddles, pools,swamps ,yards ,gullies no sewers here either so they live or hang in the storm ditches or gullies not sure of the Floridian term.Suffice to say there are critters w out fur everywhere...
@Pull Myfinger I DID , IM OLDER NOT AN EXCUSE BUT BY THE TIME I LOOK THINGS UP I FORGET WHY I NEEDED TO KNOW.....WORDS POP IN OUT OF MY HEAD.. BUT THANKS FOR THE CORRECT SPELLING. Amphibion shoot I think I ALREADY FORGOT AGAIN. AMPHIBION Ill re check Thanks again.
Harrowing experience for those people affected... cautionary tale for the rest of us
This government Punk telling people in 11 homes to stay away after they knew in allow these homes to be built in a sinkhole area. I would take this guy to court and take everything has take him to quart take his dog take his goldfish Sue his mother and father
Lived in Lake Padgett area in mid 80s. Was a beautiful area and lifestyle.
Thankyou for the update. Much appreciated.
My pleasure, thank you for watching!
It almost looks like a nice little pond, if it didn’t cut through the road
First of all: thank you very much for updated video! First there was a shock that people are still living around and didn't move away, but then I understood... they don't have a choice, because they won't be able to sale their houses. I don't think that anybody will want to buy houses around and because of this poor people are just stocked there. It is good if they have money just to left from houses around, but other people can't afford it. They can't move and they can't sale houses around. So sad! AND SCARY!!! 😥
Well put, and very true! Sad indeed! Thank you for watching!
As soon you noticed that windows and doors give you trouble to open or closed something is wrong below the house.
Incredible footage. Shocking damage.
OUTSTANDING JOB documenting this disaster.
Thank you very much for the kind comments! Thanks as well for watching!
Wow!!! Thank you so much for the update!!!
My pleasure.... thank you for watching!
Is there any other updates of this neighborhood from this year, 2022? Id like to see what is still going on there.
Hello Judi, unfortunately, no, this 2020 video is the last one we shot. However, it still looks the same today, with no changes. Thanks for watching!
Good video, answered a lot of remaining questions, they ultimately could not reclaim the lost land.
So they scooped out all the house remnants? Did they fill it with anything like dirt or rock? I don't think I'd want to live anywhere near it and certainly not right next to it. I wonder how deep it actually turned out to be?
Yes, they removed most of the debris but the hole remained filled with water and is now the small pond as seen in the video. They estimated 50 feet deep at the onset, but due to erosion and settling, it's probably only 20 feet deep or so today. Thanks for watching!
Mother Nature reclaims it’s space
Excellent drone footage. Thank you for the update. Can't help wondering where the 2 families ended up...
Thank you for the compliment. Unfortunately, I never heard where they ended up going. I believe when it was all said and done, they ended up tearing down two additional homes (that had significant structural damage) that were behind the main two, for a total of 4 homes completely gone. Thanks for watching!
So sorry to bother you, but there were two houses behind those that were swallowed, and I see that they are now gone. (You can still see impressions on the ground from where they sat) Were they demolished because of the sink hole? Because it looked like they were farther away than the others around it. Just wondering. Personally, I would be very nervous living on any land between that sink hole and that nearby river.
The introduction said they were demolished due to extensive damage. So yes, the sink hole caused it.
I wonder why the two houses behind the sinkhole had to be condemned but not the two right next to it and the one across the street that is attached to the Lake.
I'm not sure.... I know that there was a lot of discussion with the insurance companies and how they would remediate, but not sure why some were condemned and others weren't.
great question! thats what i was thinking.
I asked the same question, then saw this post. But it is a great question
Read the news article in the comments for info
Should be a warning to all of florida since just a few days ago a building collapse in MIAMI
There is a huge difference between natural sink holes and man made catastrophes, such as shoddy construction, poor maintenance and sub standard elements used to build buildings. The Miami building disaster had nothing to do with a natural occurrence, such as a sink hole.
Thanks for the update. I don't get why people are coming back and making repairs. The state shouldn't allow that. It's going to happen again...
The State shouldn't get a say. Its people's private property. Quit giving the government all control. Stop and really think things like that through before you advocate complete government oversight. Please.
People bought those houses with their life savings. As a result people unfortunately do not have the money to move. The insurance companies don't like to pay out that much money. In Pasco county, insurance companies won't insure people's houses for sinkhole damage. Its been like that for many decades, but if someone from the north movies there, they don't know how horrible sinkholes in that country.
Government shouldn't remove people at all unless they are willing to give the home owner's all their money back. 💰 because to sell it now they loose more than triple they paid.
I'm sure their insurance rates are sky high, if they can even get insurance.
I really do feel bad ... bad luck for those who got the houses destroyed by sinkholes...🙁
Honestly the neighborhood doesn’t even look the same
I see that it is very deep, I wonder what the measured depth?
It was originally measured to be around 50 feet deep, however today, due to sediment and erosion, it is probably only around 20 feet deep.
The other thing I was thinking - Its interesting that in the first video they said that they knew a sinkhole was there. I guess there isn’t much you can do about it, but it sure brings a lot of questions come to mind. The biggest of all - when did they know this sinkhole was there and did they inform the people that lived there, or who were buying property and/or houses there? I would image it would be hard now to get out unless you’re willing to leave it all behind and get nothing for your property. Whose going to want to buy a house in that area now?
I wish they had elaborated more on that. Why wasn't it filled in with cement?
Donna ML my question is, if they knew there was a sinkhole, why on Earth did they fill it in and build on it? If anyone would’ve died their blood would’ve been on the developers hands! It was a very irresponsible and evil thing to do.
@Levana Hyll, yes, it’s scary to think that developers could hide such a thing. Hard to believe. It’s been awhile since I saw this video, but the one thing I walked away with was that if you’re going to buy a house or build a house in such areas to do a lot of research about the history of the area to know if it’s sound/stable. If it has any history of sinkholes I’d look elsewhere. Better pay a bit more but you and your house won’t fall into a whole in the earth one day.
Also, why did the city/county grant the building permits for that area, knowing there had been a sinkhole. Hmm 🤔 💰. Thieving, bastards. 😏
Make you wonder if all those “lakes” in there are actually sinkholes
I'd be willing to bet a good number of them are! Thanks for watching!
Yea to have water in the front and back of me....I'm good on that. Florida's mosquitoes get so bad sometimes you end up swallowing one by mistake the city has to go around and spray at night to keep them bearable
We're the homes built on a filled pond or something similar? Will the homes built between the sink hole and lake eventually sink also?
Grow trees around the pond to hold the land together.
Every home in the area has lost value by about fifty percent. Sad.
Yes, very sad situation.... thank you for watching
This has got to dramatically affect the value of the properties nearby. Who would want to buy on any side of this sink hole or even in the neighborhood!
And I was considering of moving to Tampa area, no way in HELL.
I talked to people who said these don't happen very ofte, STILL it's something that can happen anytime. Like earthquakes in California, one of the reasons why I wanna move out.....Guess I have to look for another place....maybe outside of the US xD
Alabama, or Georgia
How do sinkholes form? Do they form from water underneath the ground?
Hello Reyna, yes, they can form in several ways. The most common way is for ground water to erode the limestone below, causing the ground above to eventually collapse. Most sinkholes are small and don't do any damage. This one was particularly large and may have had a man-made component to it (it occurred in an area that had previously been part of lake that was filled in - many years ago). Thank you for watching!
It’s Florida I’d expect them to fill it with some fish and make it look more recreationally friendly but I assume the city considers it a danger zone
how deep is it now ?
Hello tool fan, it's hard to tell, but I would guess it's only 15-20 feet deep today. There was a lot of sediment that had filled the hole. Thanks for watching!
Well the people in the neighborhood are stuck because nobody in their right mind is going to buy there. I live in Florida and your going to get sinkholes because of what we are sitting on. That being said sucking all this fossil fuels out from underground and not replacing it with anything ,you might see this happening elsewhere.
How deep is the sink hole? Did they ever retrieve anything out of the hole? Did the homeowners get compensated at all? Thanks for the update.
Hello Pat, the hole was originally estimated to be about 50 feet deep, however due to erosion and sediment deposit, it is likely less than 15-20 feet deep today. Mitigation crews were able to get most of the debris out of the hole (that the family was later able to sift through for anything salvageable) but some things were unable to be successfully retrieved due to being completely buried. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how the family fared in terms of compensation as those were all private proceedings. Thank you for watching.
Ambitious Randomness thank you so much for the information. I really appreciate you response!
@@panoka100 My pleasure!
Are they not allowed to drain the hole?
Unfortunately, it would just fill back up, due to its proximity to a nearby fresh water lake, so it was just left as is.
I wonder how deep that hole is. And how it became
Around 50 feet deep
Land O Lakes is that what the community is called, or is it the family that moved from California to Florida ?
Part of being a guest on this earth mother nature has the right away
People are living on top of a lake . That sinkhole will grow slowly. Lakes are sinkholes that were expanding for thousands of years. People must know that in a long period of heavy rains that could last a week they should check that the windows and doors can be closed easily.
So, filling it up with dirk is not feasible? Take years but would it work?
Florida is very sandy all over. I honestly believe other homes in this area HAVE to be at risk. Would you want to build a home and live there over a past sink hole? I wouldn't. But then I wouldn't live in Florida anyway.
I just want to know did they save that guy's boat?
Also, it's time to stock that pond. I know they will fill it in, but I can wish.
I don't believe the boat survived... but fish would be a nice addition! If you look closely in the video you'll see a small turtle who's made a home there. Thanks for watching!
Would have been interesting if someone had documented (vid) the whole clean up.
scare , thank you for your video
Has anyone swam or dived into it? It must be connected to the lakes nearby?
I'm not aware of anyone trying to dive it. The bottom is pretty full of silt now and is probably only about 25 feet deep at its deepest point. Something good to ponder though! Thanks for watching!
This is the best reason not to buy or build in Florida!
Want to live there?
Rent!!
And get good renters insurance that includes sinkhole protection!!
Only the homeowner can get sinkhole insurance.
What the heck the person across the street going to do who would buy that from them? They did have a nice lake front house at one point.
the mangrove said let me be , my purpose here is as important as your purpose in the earth , just leave and go , i must return to my duty .
Why the fence around water in Florida? 🤦🏼♂️
Fences are required around most bodies of water (like pools and small ponds near roadways) for a number of reasons, mainly all related to safety. The primary two are to keep small children from wandering into the water and to keep alligators out. Great observation, and thank you for watching!
I feel lucky this is not happening to my home
P.s. cant he build a floting yacht house there instead
@ 4:23 I wouldn't wanna live near that when it rains and starts flooding.
One night your sleeping and wake up to your house crashing into a hole you better jump out the window lol
This is a problem in Florida. Sinkholes are common there. It's just a matter of time before one appears in your neighborhood.
I wonder how deep that thing is
During the time of the original event it was estimated to be as deep as 50 feet. Today, with all the sediment that has settled, it's probably less than 20 feet deep. Thank you for watching!
Creepy!
Now they have a natural swimming pool
I saw a documentary a few years ago about Florida, it's water aquafer and sinkholes. It cited the massive amounts of water that are taken from the aquafer to keep the commercial citrus orchards and gardens in that area growing. The result can be that the aquafer is depleted and not replenished quickly enough by rain, so it weakens the ground above so there ends up being sinkholes.
Disney World Florida was built on a drained swamp. Maybe this will happen to them. Im not even kidding.
I was happy the boat survived thats what really matters
Holy moly! I hope the residents got out safely and got their good things out.
Remaining homes are now called "water view ".
The whole foundation of Florida's Swiss cheese lime rock,
Nice water feature...
Add some fish and water lilies and benches and bam land price increase back a little bit.
Its a clear green water pond on video. However, what happened to all the houses debris seen on video when they were all sinking like quick sand? If l were an engineer? I would use a helicopter with a large rope attached to a heavy metal or ankle and send it down to go under in the middle of the pond to know how deep is the sink hole? So, they can determined if its worthly to continued living there and all the rest of the other houses? IF it's really deep? That sinkhole will meet underneath with the lake nearby and all those other houses will be gone too...a tragedy waiting to happen..Especially if it happens at night, while house owners and their families are sleeping? Omg😣😣😣☹☹☹😥😥😥
Good luck to any of those homeowners directly around that sinkhole when it comes time to sell their property. I realize, all of Florida is one big, potential sinkhole. But you know how people feel plays a big role in the real estate game and this is a huge "curb appeal" negative. I bet this also hurt the neighbors regarding continuing homeowner's insurance on their properties.
Florida truly is turning into a land of lakes?
Is it just gonna be a fishing lake, now??
It actually does have a few fish and some turtles in it now, and that's probably how it will be from here on out as there are no plans to do anything else with it. Thanks for watching!
If I owned the land I'd buy myself a boat and move back in. LOL.
i think its time for tunnel boring machine laws
Fresh cenotes here come and get your fresh cenotes.
nah. that was from a meteor 217 million years ago
That's what I was thinking too - lol
Has anyone done any type of diving in there yet ? And if so, what was determined ?
If I lived close to there I would DEFINITELY be moving away.
Open your eyes in the last days ..For What is the deal if you gain the whole world but stil lose your own soul 💯💤wake up⚠️REPENT ❗.... . .
well.. it's called Land O Lakes with a reason
des lacs disparaissent et d autre se crée ainsi va la vie
Why don’t they fill it in with rock ✌️🇨🇦
Most of it would likely disappear into the sediment at the bottom and would ultimately be a very costly endeavor that no one would want to bear.
@passinthru In some places yes, for oil and natural gas. However, fracking isn't really necessary since there are ample reserves available, which is why you don't see it very often.
Please lose the damn annoying music
I feel sorry for them, but how they knew at 7 AM there home will sinking. Befor any thing happen, the camera was ready. Thank god , every body is okay,& nothing happen to them.
I really have compassion for the homeowners who watched their homes drop into the hole. That has to be traumatic.
I agree... thank you for watching!
I wonder if their insurance paid
@@the60s87 We're not sure in this particular case, but typically in a catastrophic event like this, they do. For normal sinkhole activity, such as cracks in floors, walls, and ceilings however, they do not, unless you have sinkhole coverage on your homeowner's policy. Thank you for watching!
@@AmbitiousRandomness So, is "sinkhole coverage" a Florida thing? I haven't seen that option with my home owners policy.
@@rosewoodsteel6656 It very well could be, but I'm not positive. Sinkhole prevalence is higher here than anywhere in the country, so it may just be for Florida. I priced it once and it was exorbitantly expensive. Thanks again for watching!
Gosh that three years has passed quickly can remember actually watching this live when it happened
Nicely done. I was looking for an update and found this. I sure wouldn't want to live nearby. I owned a house in So. Cal. that had the Holy Fire in the back yard and 4 months later, 2 massive mudslides in the front. It's a horrible experience.
Thank you very much for the nice comment. I can only imagine how terrible your experience in So. Cal. must have been! Take care, and be safe.
Well it was scary and sad to watch bc I lived there when it happend my mom woke up at like 6:00 am to go see it
😳 OMG!
Thank you foe the update, I just found this, I was wondering what happened there.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
I wonder if theres still remnants from the houses that got swallowed. Could be clothing, bedding, etc. in that sinkhole.
Hell yeah. Shout it out...
You couldnt pay me to live in the house next door
Wow! That whole area is suspect in my mind...
Yup. We call the whole area "Florida" ;)
I googled this location about an hour ago. Street view hasn't been updated but the satellite view has and shows the hole with the fence. I'm surprised that they didn't try to fill it in.
It was filled in. Then they built the houses.
Google Earth hasn’t updated their images. What a huge task. 🌎
I would be afraid that this sink hole would flush like a toilet and take more homes with it, some where under ground it's got to connect to the lake, it's just a matter time before this thing gets bigger, with all the earthquakes that's been going on and all the hurricanes and storms I'd done been gone, and I sure wouldn't stay anywhere near the southern states.
Thank you for this update. After seeing the first video I was wondering what it looked like today 06/2020. I looked at Google Map and it shows it as it was sometime before the sinkhole happened in 2017 - houses and a road which no longer exist. Shows how often Google map updates... I’ve seen maps that have houses and businesses that were from 10 years ago. Places that no longer exist. Not to mention new businesses and houses that are there today that are not on these maps. You’d think they would at least update their addresses at least what you see from a satellite image. So many maps are completely inaccurate.
Google's satellite images have been updated and show the sinkhole. I googled it about an hour ago. Google Street View has not been updated though.
@@wanderingangelstudio1359 Google Earth hasn’t updated the area, yet. Just FYI.
Why not put some alligators in there to make this more interesting? LOL
I'm glad they cleaned it up and let it be as nature intended, there is no point in fighting this type of natural disaster. This is how a great number of lakes are formed in Florida. Filing it up and trying to build again over would be immoral and irresponsible to any new person moving in.
Thanks for the update. I was wondering what it looks like now. Will you continue to do updates on this story?
Hello Tasha, the area still looks the same today as it did a little over a year ago when we did this video. Because nothing else is expected to change, we probably won't do another update until next year when it'll be the 5 year anniversary. Thanks for watching!
Truthfully I would be scared to be living next to this. It cannot be very stable at all.
I fully agree! It definitely makes you wonder! Thanks for watching!
I could not live next to or near a sinkhole. I bet those ajoining properties are worth nothing.
It's definitely a lot quieter back there these days with no traffic going through there anymore. Thanks for watching!