What's up at home today...?

The national geological service is saying, that this sinkhole has got a natural cause.
The reason might have been a collapsing cavity.
The load of approximately 1000 trucks was necessary to fill it, a few days later, the hole was some metres deeper again, but the experts already were expecting that.

This is, how the crater looks nowadays:

This is the largest sinkhole in the area here.



This is the "Altenberger Pinge"



This catastrophy is man made, caused by unbridled mining.
Already 1545 the first sinkholes appeared, but the mining continued, so that several sinkholes became one.
Since that, the sinkhole has got a diameter of 450 metres and is 150 metres deep.
A fence is surounding the whole area, nobody is allowed to get closer to it, because the edges are still instable and the widening of the sinkhole still continues...

Since 1545... There are nevertheless apparently recent houses on these pictures. What i don't understand is that since all this time, nearby immediate of a completely known and identified danger, the constructions of houses are authorized. When there will be deaths, we shall wonder why and we shall look for culprits...

Normandy, Calvados, today.

Blatant demonstration of the advantages of the principle of the car with front-wheel drive...


Credit: Ouest France


The newspaper say that : "The stake bounding the locations of car park bent, and was of use as springboard to the car which climbed that in car park behind her. The front-wheel drive did the rest, and the car stopped only when front wheels did not touch the ground any more."

Yes Nikita, I know exactly what you are talking about. I wouldn't certainly find any sleep living so close to such an edge...

Human mind is able to reach out for the moon, extraterrestrial planets and stars, but the obvious dangers next to his garden fence are not seen or ignored...

And it is proven, in the year 2009 a little more far away,
Nachterstedt, July 2009:



Living on the edge...







In the early morning hours, an area of 500m length was falling down into a hole that once had been an open-face mine. During the recent years, this giant hole was filled with water.
The houses you can see at the edge now, were located up to 400m far away from the edge previously.
1 1/2 houses crashed into the void.
3 people died instantly...