[Alvin]

"...Bowling Green is in western Kentucky, an area with geology — full of karst — that has created an abundance of caves, springs and sinkholes.

Photos of the sinkhole were quickly disseminated on social media and television Wednesday morning, stunning Corvette enthusiasts.

“By golly, I’m looking at a picture now. Look at how deep it is. . . . Unbelievable. Ugh,” said Gary Mortimer, founder of the National Corvette Restorers Society, in a telephone interview with The Washington Post. He said many of the museums’ cars are the only ones of their kind left and would be difficult to replace."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...5fb_story.html

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.230...21103386261231

KGS Home > Water > Karst
Where Is Karst Located in Kentucky?

Kentucky is one of the most famous karst areas in the world. Much of the state's beautiful scenery, particularly the horse farms of the Inner Bluegrass, is the result of development of karst landscape. The karst topography of Kentucky is mostly on limestone, but also some dolostone. The areas where those rocks are near the surface closely approximate where karst topography will form. The map below shows the outcrop of limestone and dolostone and closely represents the karst areas. The bedrock is millions of years old, and the karst terrain formed on them is hundreds of thousands of years old. In humid climates such as Kentucky's you should assume that all limestone has karst development, although that development may not be visible at the surface...

http://www.uky.edu/KGS/water/general...here_karst.htm

Take another look from the outside - note the location of the detention pond and "former" sink hole


And the inside

[Lightfoot]

The red C4 on the edge of the hole might end up going in before it's all over.

The building is going to have to be raized. They could get the exposed Corvettes out of there with a big helicopter.
I can only see five cars in the helicopter video.
There must be a third buried.

[Drag Star Le Mans]

Originally Posted by Tunas73TA

No sign of the orange or white cars that fell in first!

You can see the white car for a second in this video just below the black 62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0im-l411P1M#t=15

[Old Blue 66]

Originally Posted by Lightfoot

The red C4 on the edge of the hole might end up going in before it's all over.

The building is going to have to be raized. They could get the exposed Corvettes out of there with a big helicopter.
I can only see five cars in the helicopter video.
There must be a third buried.

Number six is under the Blue Devil . You can only see a wheel and a little bit of the bumper

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Lightfoot

The red C4 on the edge of the hole might end up going in before it's all over.

The building is going to have to be raized. They could get the exposed Corvettes out of there with a big helicopter.
I can only see five cars in the helicopter video.
There must be a third buried.

Originally Posted by Drag Star Le Mans

You can see the white car for a second in this video just below the black 62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0im-l411P1M#t=15

I agree as to the building may need to be raised...and Thxs to Drag Star posting this video the cars are the least of engineering worries. Watch it again and note the deep crevasses and canyon terrain.

Brings to mind - time to order new study of the entire Bowling Green Factory facilities for the same conditions.

Fortunate this occurred when no one was touring inside and no loss of life accompanied this event.

[cuz68]

Originally Posted by necdb3

Hate to think that if something happen to one of my Pontiacs that someone would be laughing or saying "it's just a Pontiac." Someone, somewhere treasured those cars, even if they were owned by the museum.

You are right, I think this is very sad.

[Lightfoot]

Off topic, but that building's exterior is hokey as hell. Who's bright idea was it to paint it taxi cab yellow with a red spire? Supposed to be a stinger? Weren't those cars named after a sea creature, not a bee?

[bird72]

More fodder for the "God has a sick sense of humor" advocates. While this a true shame, mostly for the one of one cars, it is life. People die and we react less sometimes. It is just "stuff". (See George Carlin's rap on "stuff"). I am sorry it happened, but it all goes to dust someday. More than the car loss, it should remind us of how we live on a planet in a state of perpetual change.

[Alvin]

Zora Duntov Known as the “Father of the Corvette” has his Ashes Enshrined In A Beautiful Handcrafted Exhibit

The National Corvette Museum
Our involvement with the National Corvette Museum goes all the way back to 1991 when the Museum was only an off-site annex. Several years of fundraising and some donated property got the project started in 1993. These are some of the only known pictures of the construction was we made regular visits to Bowling Green until construction neared completion and a Grand Opening date was set for September 1, 1994.

See more at: http://automastersofbg.com/?page_id=230

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by bird72

More fodder for the "God has a sick sense of humor" advocates. While this a true shame, mostly for the one of one cars, it is life. People die and we react less sometimes. It is just "stuff". (See George Carlin's rap on "stuff"). I am sorry it happened, but it all goes to dust someday. More than the car loss, it should remind us of how we live on a planet in a state of perpetual change.

How true, and how we take for granted living on a world in perpetual motion with tectonic plates shifting, volcanoes erupting, waves crashing and check this collection of

Sinkholes Around The World http://abcnews.go.com/International/...bceb4ff05158b4

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Lightfoot

Off topic, but that building's exterior is hokey as hell. Who's bright idea was it to paint it taxi cab yellow with a red spire? Supposed to be a stinger? Weren't those cars named after a sea creature, not a bee?

Agree, glad the original "Mako Sharks" were not of the eight.

Seems the Architect Wanted Something To Hang His Hat On
http://automastersofbg.com/wp-conten...MBuild-00d.jpg

Together: http://en.autowp.ru/pictures/corvett...ko_shark_1.jpg

[Racer81x]

I'm not a mustang fan, nor ford fan at all, but I just seen this picture and it made me laugh:

[Alvin]

[hada76]

Originally Posted by R68GTO

There's also a video out there from a security camera showing just the beginning where 2 Vettes dropped in the hole first.
.watched a 100 foot wide sink hole form before our eyes in about 45 seconds. Scares the hell out of you because you don't know when it will stop.

yes security cam vid is very eerie...and that thing is DEEP

[Alvin]

[Bob Hall]

How's the little red one?

[KS circutguy]

Alvin,can you please stop spanning the forum-please.....

[cuz68]

Originally Posted by KS circutguy

Alvin,can you please stop spanning the forum-please.....

Like aways spanning the globe, 7 post on page 3 alone?

[2002Z4CSS]

What a shame. I heard one new anchor say if it was a bunch of Toyota Corolla's it would not be a big deal... LOL!

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by KS circutguy

Alvin,can you please stop spanning the forum-please.....

Originally Posted by cuz68

Like aways spanning the globe, 7 post on page 3 alone?