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Corvette Museum Disaster
It's all over the news that a giant sinkhole opened up in the middle
of the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green and swallowed up 8 corvettes. We can now add this to things to worry about when displaying your car! |
From U.S.A. Today
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A sinkhole formed Wednesday under the National Corvette Museum here, swallowing eight cars, according to its executive director. Some time before 5:30 a.m. CT, the sinkhole started to form, authorities believe. By 5:39 a.m. power in the museum went off and police were called, Executive Director Wendell Strode said. The incident originally was thought to be a fire. STORY: Firefighters save dog from N.Y. sinkhole STORY: Crews demolish Fla. home sinkhole claimed When emergency personnel got to the museum, they discovered a sinkhole 40 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet deep, Strode said. "It's pretty significant," he said. Bowling Green — about 60 miles northeast of Nashville, Tenn., and 100 miles southwest of Louisville, Ky. — is at the edge of a karst region where caves, springs and sinkholes are common. The main entrance to Mammoth Cave National Park is about 30 miles northeast of the city, but that cave system has more than 400 miles that have been explored. The National Corvette Museum will celebrate its 20th anniversary in August. Of the eight cars that fell into the hole,the museum owned five and General Motors owned three. GM's Corvette plant where present-day Corvettes are manufactured is across a highway less than a half mile from the museum. Employees at the museum still are working on a list of cars involved in the incident, which occurred inside the facility's iconic spire called the Sky Dome, Strode said. Emergency personnel allowed museum staff to remove only one car in the Sky Dome, the only surviving 1983 Corvette, he said. It had not fallen in the hole. Engineers have been called in to assess the situation. "Before we do anything, like remove the other cars, we want that assessment so we know if there's been any structural damage to the Sky Dome," Strode said. The museum is open Wednesday but the Sky Dome will be off limits, he said. "We'll try to get back to business as usual as soon as we can and keep moving forward," he said. A monetary estimate of damage done to the museum and the vehicles involved had not been determined early Wednesday. |
Are they fracking in that area or have they drained any underground water reservoirs if there are any around there?
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For the "it didn't happen unless there's pictures" crowd:
http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/im...nkhole-2-1.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/im...nkhole-1-1.jpg |
It's my understanding that the area of the museum is covered with underground
caverns, and a friend of mine who displayed his Corvette there for a few months said that there is an old Giant sinkhole near the Museum building that sits near the parking lot. |
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http://www.torquenews.com/sites/defa...tte_museum.jpg |
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The way the Vette crowd is, I can see that in a few years from now we'll see:
"1 of 8 Corvettes with certified and documented sinkhole damage. Only $10,000 more than a non-sinkhole damaged vehicle." |
I feel kinda bad for that black/red '61-'62 Vette. The C4's on the other hand, what a good place for them!
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Thank goodness they were just Corvettes......
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some rare Vettes down the drain....heres a link!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/12...cmp=latestnews |
HOLY ****!!!
GET A MACHINE & GET THEM OUT!!! |
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Take a closer look at the broken beams and piers hanging "in the air" not so sure anyone else should even stand where the photos were taken till shored up and safety tied off in case of continued collapse... |
Gives a "hole" new meaning to "survivor car"
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Per the Fox story:
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I haven't liked Vettes since 1967, so in my opionion, there was only one loss, the 62'.
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I just told my son (Chevy nut), I ain't going to Bowling Green with him anytime soon.
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Seriously guys, you can't look at this and not ache a little!
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'84 PPG 'pace car' whoopeee.........
I could care less about the black '62. Only one I'd be interested in is the '93 Ruby Red 40th. |
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