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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-06-01 05:39
Tropical storm Agatha opens up massive, horrifying sinkholes in Guatemala City
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No, this image is not Photoshopped. It comes from Guatemala City today, where damage from a tropical storm - including 3 giant sinkholes - has forced 120,000 people to evacuate. Here's how you can help refugees.
Over at BoingBoing, Xeni Jardin is doing a great job covering the ongoing crisis, and has pointed to some groups where you can send donations. The primary concern right now is food. Crops have been wiped out, and subsistence farming communities risk starvation. But people also need shelter and medical supplies.
Tropical storm Agatha opens up massive, horrifying sinkholes in Guatemala City
From BoingBoing:
Guatemala is in a state of crisis today after twin natural calamities struck: First, the Pacaya volcano (just 19 miles from the capital) woke up in a bad mood. Lava flowed, black sand and rock and ash spewed everywhere. A newscaster covering the event, near the volcano, was killed by flying rocks.
Then, tropical storm "Agatha" struck, destroying homes, causing floods, and creating tens of thousands of internally displaced. Infrastructure in this country-where the majority live in poverty-is very poor, and ill-equipped to handle such a double blow. As of last night, official numbers on storm: about 30,000 "refugees," close to 120,000 evacuated, 93 dead and rising.
The poorest always suffer the most when events like this happen, and the two events together caused surreal conditions: knee-deep black sand mud, and "instant concrete" which formed when rains met ash, clogging up drains and laying waste to fragile sewage systems. Said a friend on Twitter, "Water and sand everywhere... it's like the beach, only a lot less fun."
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-06-01 05:40
those sinkholes are so large you can't even see the bottom from the street.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-06-01 05:46
Drops rock.
Listens.
3 minutes later.
"!"
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Shanghai wrote on 2010-06-01 05:57
Wonder if scientists will take an interest in those holes for exploration... It's like digging in the Earth but Nature already did it for you.
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ZazieTheBeast wrote on 2010-06-01 06:21
how do you fix something that big, you'd have to dig up the side of a mountain to get enough dirt to fill that up
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Taycat wrote on 2010-06-01 06:40
Or, build some sort of concrete/metal plate for it and paint it. I feel sorry if there was anyone that fell into one.
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-06-01 06:43
Quote from ZazieTheBeast;51983:
how do you fix something that big, you'd have to dig up the side of a mountain to get enough dirt to fill that up
Man made islands exist
they can cover up these holes
but it's going to take up a lot of time and resources.
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Taycat wrote on 2010-06-01 06:49
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;52000:
Man made islands exist
they can cover up these holes
but it's going to take up a lot of time and resources.
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Piko wrote on 2010-06-01 08:49
Pikachu pika : PIKAACHUU!
(Pika's reaction : DAAAAAAMN!)
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-06-01 08:52
Quote from Pikablu;52054:
Pikachu pika : PIKAACHUU!
(Pika's reaction : DAAAAAAMN!)
[video=youtube;5JKMLJ3qRus]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JKMLJ3qRus[/video]
the cat doesnt see how the 5th level of fatness applies here.
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starpaw7 wrote on 2010-06-01 11:32
Holy :punch:
How did a tropical storm do this :scare:
I hope they can fix it, and that not too many people feel down there
I wonder how deep it goes :what:
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Moppy wrote on 2010-06-01 11:57
o.O
Wow... That looks so deep...
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-06-01 16:41
Is this a new one or the old one? I know there was something like this a while ago, sucks if it happened again.
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Infamy wrote on 2010-06-01 18:28
Forget terra-forming Mars... We need to terra-form Earth
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Bakuryu wrote on 2010-06-01 18:34
Holy crap. That's insane >-<