Sinkhole opened up on White House lawn

[47of74]

LOL

A sinkhole has developed on the White House’s north lawn, reporters observed Tuesday.

Voice of America’s Steve Herman and Breitbart’s Charlie Spiering shared photos on Twitter of the sinkhole, which is located just outside the entrance to the briefing room.

Link to tweet

I think Satan wants easier access to his minion...

[Vinca]

1. Gates of hell opening up.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Beat me to it. n/t

[TheRealNorth]

12. +1

[C_U_L8R]

26. Satan wants his minion back

[Fla Dem]

40. My first thought. Anyone reported smelling sulfur?

[Comatose Sphagetti]

82. I know you meant that in jest

but I know fundies who would correlate it with end-times bullshit and believe it.

[BigmanPigman]

89. I think this is the real SWAMP

due to all the corruption of this admin and the moron.

[SergeStorms]

101. I think everyone who posted after you....

had the very same reply in mind. Congrats for being the fastest keyboard on D.U.

[rickford66]

2. Trump's secret entrance to the underworld perhaps?

[Fred Sanders]

5. Nonsense, nothing otherwordly at all.

Just Steven Miller's entrance, often used by billionaires with bags of money seeking favors, and anyone from Fox.

[rickford66]

9. Isn't that what I said ?

It's not a one-way turnstile.

[Soxfan58]

3. Media trap

[0rganism]

4. honestly i was expecting a picture of Agent Orange flapping his jaw

somehow this seems like justice. maybe this is the year the white house gets sucked into an extra-dimensional vortex a la Poltergeist. probably not though.

[saidsimplesimon]

15. It should really fire his hairdresser.

Instead of orange, it was a fug ugly unnatural, clownish (not blond) yellow today. (as seen on Craig Melvin's broadcast)

[Sneederbunk]

6. Melania tunnelling out,

[CTyankee]

14. That's funny! I can see her so desperate, with a shovel in hand...

[yonder]

25. ditto! funnier than hell. no pun

[pazzyanne]

51. Now that is funny!

[underpants]

56. Yes!

I was trying to come up with a tunneling joke and you nailed it.

[appalachiablue]

81. +1. Go for it 'Melanie,' run girl!

The Great Escape

[smirkymonkey]

93. Heh, heh! I was thinking exactly the same thing!

Either that or Eric and Don Jr. trying to build a secret bunker for when the hammer comes down.

[htuttle]

7. Metaphor Of The Year

...so far. I expect it won't be the last.

[Me.]

10. That's What My Immediate Thought Was

[PunkinPi]

11. lol, and just last year there was a sinkhole at Marlago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/22/sinkhole-forms-in-front-of-mar-a-lago-metaphors-pour-in/?utm_term=.45f8ff0df7e4

[backtoblue]

13. !

Mother Earth wants to eat him.

[nolabear]

28. I came to post the same thing. Mean seriously...the earth is trying to escape.

[madamesilverspurs]

16. Darned tri-focals!

At first glance I thought it said 'stinkhole'. But that wouldn't be in the lawn, it would be in the Oval Office, right?

.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

110. 😆

[luc mont]

17. The Jokes Write Themselves

Where do any of us begin???

[Blue_true]

75. I wonder how SNL will handle this one. nt

[DeminPennswoods]

78. I think the season wrapped up on Sat

[Blue_true]

80. Is Maher still running live shows? I know he goes on summer break. nt

[treestar]

87. I came to DU when I read about it

Knowing the best comments would be here !

[DFW]

18. Oh get off it with all the Satan stuff. You all know what it REALLY was

Trump just wanted a putting green where the hole was so big, he'd be guaranteed to ALWAYS sink his putt.

It's that simple.

[Solly Mack]

19. Swamps do that.

[csziggy]

29. Especially if you drain them and dry out the underlying limestone layers.

Karst Is a Landscape

A karst landscape has sinkholes, sinking streams, caves, and springs. The term "karst" is derived from a Slavic word that means barren, stony ground. It is also the name of a region in Slovenia near the border with Italy that is well known for its sinkholes and springs. Geologists have adopted karst as the term for all such terrain. The term "karst" describes the whole landscape, not a single sinkhole or spring. A karst landscape most commonly develops on limestone, but can develop on several other types of rocks, such as dolostone (magnesium carbonate or the mineral dolomite), gypsum, and salt. Precipitation infiltrates into the soil and flows into the subsurface from higher elevations and generally toward a stream at a lower elevation. Weak acids found naturally in rain and soil water slowly dissolve the tiny fractures in the soluble bedrock, enlarging the joints and bedding planes. Below is a schematic diagram of karst terrain in Kentucky.



More: https://www.uky.edu/KGS/water/general/karst/karst_landscape.htm

[Solly Mack]

33. We have underwater sinkholes here (in the swamps)

Because of a salt dome cavern collapsing.

[csziggy]

41. Where I grew up, in Central Florida, there were a lot of sinks when I was a kid

Between digging big ditches to drain land for development, ground water depletion because of orange groves and phosphate mines, and an extended drought, the limestone layers underneath dried out. Dry limestone is much more brittle than hydrated limestone.

During the 1960s my hometown of Bartow had the dubious distinction of earning the name "Sinkhole Capital of the World" because of the number of sinks that developed. One swallowed a couple of houses, another opened in a road as the newspaper editor drove past then proceeded to swallow part of the playground of the elementary school. There were many more, but those stand out in my memory.

My Dad was a phosphate mining engineer and was consulted by people on how to make sure their houses were not taken by a sinkhole. Although his main business was prospecting - drilling holes to assay the amount of phosphate under properties - he refused to try to give predictions of when and where sinkholes might develop. I got hear a lot of his discussions about the subject.

The subsidence caused by the salt dome is a different phenomenon than the standard Karst sinkholes. If I remember correctly that Louisiana one was caused by drilling for oil and they punctured the salt dome. It is impressive, though!

[Solly Mack]

44. It was man caused. That one is one of several.

The cement of my back deck pulls away from the house because of the high water table here. Fix and repair and within a year, it's cracked again...and not a small crack either.

It does settle but I keep thinking...one day.

[Pepsidog]

64. In 1981 I was in college in Winter Park Fla. and a huge sinkhole made national news, cars, trees

and houses were swallowed up. I went to Rollins College and the sink hole ended up taking up almost a block. It was wide and deep. I recall a new Porsche getting destroyed. Google “Winter Park sink hole” to see a truly incredible site. Correction it swallowed part of a Porsche dealership.

[csziggy]

71. Yes, my little sister lived in Windmere and was all excited about that!

It made the news all over the world. Sort of like that car museum in Kentucky where the floor just dropped out from under the show room:

Watch sinkhole swallow 8 Corvettes at museum
Mark Boxley, The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal Published 10:01 a.m. ET Feb. 12, 2014 | Updated 6:20 a.m. ET Feb. 13, 2014

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A sinkhole formed Wednesday under the National Corvette Museum here, swallowing eight cars, according to its executive director.

Sometime before 5:30 a.m. CT, the sinkhole started to form, authorities believe. By 5:44 a.m., motion detectors were going off and police were called, Executive Director Wendell Strode said. Security cameras at the museum (below) caught the destruction.

When emergency personnel got to the museum, they discovered a sinkhole 40 feet wide and 25 to 30 feet deep, Strode said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/12/corvette-museum-sinkhole/5417171/

[Pepsidog]

92. Never saw that clip. Some bad luck car owners there

[csziggy]

95. It was a museum of classic Corvettes

A few of the cars they could restore, some of them are back in the museum in their smashed condition.

National Corvette Museum Plans to Re-Create Sinkhole
In case you missed the real thing.
By: Karla Sanchez May 12, 2015

The sinkhole that swallowed eight rare Corvettes at the National Corvette Museum turned out to be one of its biggest attractions, and now the museum is currently prepping a re-creation of it in a new “Thunderdome” exhibit.

According to GM Authority, the new attraction will be a unique multimedia experience allowing people to experience what the real sinkhole looked like. The museum is achieving this by constructing a mini version of the Skydome, which will accommodate about 15 guests at a time. In there, the guests will be treated to a simulation of the sinkhole that ended up swallowing eight Corvettes. Guests won’t just watch the sports cars get sucked into the sinkhole either, as they’ll also learn about how sinkholes and caves occur.

Museum officials knew they had to keep the memory of the sinkhole alive after a record number of visitors attended the museum to check it out. They even thought about preserving the sinkhole and keeping it as a separate attraction, but the cost was just too high. The sinkhole has since been filled, and most some of the Corvettes have been restored, including the rare Blue Devil ZR1. Chevrolet announced that it planned on restoring only three of the eight Corvettes that fell into the sinkhole. The other two — a 1962 model and a 1992 C4 (the millionth Corvette ever built) — are scheduled to be restored this year, while the other five will remain in their as-recovered state, featured as a part of a future museum display. Those five models include a 1984 Corvette pace car, 1993 Corvette 40th Anniversary Edition, 2001 Corvette Z06, 2009 C6, and a 1993 Corvette ZR-1 Spyder.

More including photos of some of the cars that fell in the sinkhole: http://www.automobilemag.com/news/national-corvette-museum-plans-to-recreate-sinkhole/

We'd driven by the museum several months before the sinkhole. We didn't stop since we're not car people and we were on a schedule. But the museum is right next to the interstate. if we ever go back that way I might want to stop just to see their sinkhole display!

[Pepsidog]

96. wow That's incredible. Thanks for the links!!

[luvallpeeps]

106. I remember this!

I think a man was fishing with his grandson when this happened. I saw it on some show. Scared the daylights outta me.

[Solly Mack]

107. It's a scary thing to watch.

[Kirk Lover]

20. The SWAMP. nt

[imanamerican63]

21. I wonder what it causing this?

Maybe too many cheeseburgers?

[elehhhhna]

34. 239 lbs of bullshit?

[marble falls]

22. Why couldn't it open up suddenly under cheetolini?

[louis-t]

23. Even God hates that guy.

I've been waiting to use that phrase for a long time.

[colorado_ufo]

24. Direct access to Dick Cheney's bunker

[saidsimplesimon]

104. This was my favourite comment.

Cheney lives on, a Frankenstein's monster with the heart of a dead person.

[IronLionZion]

27. I expected something else when I clicked on this

[Laffy Kat]

30. Wonder what the Deplorables reaction would be if if actually sank the WH?

They are all so religious and see symbols in everything, would they link the two to hell?

[FakeNoose]

37. Maybe there's a fake biblical prediction somewhere

... they'll think it's a sign from God or something.

/file

[erronis]

43. Nowhere close to six feet yet. I'd prefer around 2,000 miles under - Hell's awaiting.

[Laffy Kat]

69. ....

That was great.

[Fritz Walter]

67. They'd blame Obama. And Hillary.

Next silly question...

[Laffy Kat]

68. Yes, you're probably right.

[MrScorpio]

31. There was another outside of his shit hole resort in Florida

The Earth must be trying to eat him or something.

[elehhhhna]

32. Didn't the tunnelmmaster el chapo threaten him last year?

Hmm. Uh oh.

[redstatebluegirl]

35. The Founding Fathers trying to fix things by dragging Trump to hell.

[WePurrsevere]

36. And one year ago today one opened up at Mar-a-lago. No, I'm NOT kidding...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/22/sinkhole-forms-in-front-of-mar-a-lago-metaphors-pour-in/?utm_term=.2749f23d2d72

A large sinkhole has formed in front of Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach estate belonging to President Trump.

Town officials posted a run-of-the-mill advisory about the sinkhole Monday morning:

"A 4' x 4' sinkhole has formed on Southern Boulevard directly in front of Mar-a-Lago," the traffic alert read. "It appears to be in the vicinity of the newly installed water main. West Palm Beach Utilities distribution crews have secured the area and will most likely need to do some exploratory excavation today."

But where utility workers saw a repair project, the Internet saw a giant opening — for metaphors

.

Things that make you go, hmm.

[Blue_true]

77. Today is my birthday. Hopefully my present next year is the next one swallow that bastard. nt

[WePurrsevere]

98. Happy birthday! May your birthday wish come true. :-D nt

[Blue_true]

113. Yes, no present can beat seeing that asshole lowered into the ground, by sinkhole or

cheeseburger and fries.

[rurallib]

38. A small reminder from Kim that he has weapons?

[OnDoutside]

39. It's the White House mole !!!

[PatSeg]

45. Okay, that was really funny!

[underpants]

59. 😃👍

[montana_hazeleyes]

91. LOL!

[MustLoveBeagles]

103. LMAO

[BlancheSplanchnik]

111. 🤣

[PatSeg]

42. Whoa

I thought this was going to be a political cartoon. It has allegory written all over it. "Just outside the press briefing room"??? Seriously?

[doc03]

46. Trump should be encouraged to spend

more time in the Rose Garden.

[KansasKali]

47. Nature has a plan.

It's building a drain for the swamp.

[Blues Heron]

48. Lieva and Maga-ma oozing out?

[Hestia]

49. Is it anywhere near where the French tree was planted for those few moments and the hole

wasn't filled in properly?

[Sancho]

50. Back channel tunnel to ???

...McD's
...Stormy's
...Putin

[Afromania]

52. The Lizard people, although I don't know why they would want that bum back.

[RandiFan1290]

53. One in Detroit as well

[klook]

109. Beelzebub's bungalow... excellent!

That guy seized the moment very nicely.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

112. I'm speechless

At that spontaneous goth prose poet! The news crew really liked him, too, apparently.

[PubliusEnigma]

54. I think they meant "shithole".

[underpants]

58. +++1!

[left-of-center2012]

55. Smells like sulfur

[Doreen]

57. So, the sink hole from Mar-a-Logo is following trump?

It is kind of like the earth wants to suck him up and rid the planet of him.

[underpants]

60. C. H. U. D. s!!!!

[dgibby]

61. The Swamp

has returned to reclaim all its creatures.

[world wide wally]

62. Trump's personal elevator to the boss...

It only goes down.

[C Moon]

63. Trump/Pence escape tunnel.

[LudwigPastorius]

65. Maybe the disappearing tree that Trump and Macron planted ended up down there.

[Va Lefty]

66. It's a hellmouth! Call in Buffy to clean house!

[Locrian]

70. they misspelled "shithole" - n/t

[cynatnite]

72. I honestly thought this was metaphorical. LOL n/t

[Blue_true]

73. Man! The cost cutting has to stop!!!!!

Dante had an elegant gate as the entry to hell. Trump is going to have to walk through a sinkhole to get home. Hey Satan, republicans writing your budget down there? You don't have democrats.

[BSdetect]

74. The swamp may drain after all.

[DeminPennswoods]

76. Maybe someone could lay a trail of McD's cheeseburgers

and lure Trump into it.

[Toorich]

79. Faux Noose claims....

it's where the Clintons buried the bodies and hid the emails.
How can they be so right so often?

[Wednesdays]

83. When they first built the White House, it was in the middle of a swamp

(And wasn't there a little river or canal that ran through the lawn?) Anyway, all that was filled in sometime in the 19th Century.

Looks like the swamp is making a comeback.

[smirkymonkey]

94. I think most of DC was a swamp at one time.

Wouldn't it be great if swamp just reclaimed the entire Trump administration?

[Texin]

84. NOW we know where Cheney's bunker was located!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

85. It's the Mexicans, it's the Mexicans!!

They've tunneled all the way from Nuevo Laredo....to bring money for the wall.

And Tequila for Senor Bannon.

...... .........

[treestar]

86. Now Obama and Hillary

Cut that out ! You too Joe !

[Iggo]

88. Call Buffy.

[ailsagirl]

90. That. is. hilarious!!!

[Xipe Totec]

97. Like to the earth swallow her own increase.

Titus Andronicus,
Act 5, scene 2

[BobTheSubgenius]

99. The Great Escape?

Or Hogan's Heroes?

[NellieStarbuck]

100. Back channel

I think Eric Prince arranged this back channel to Hell. Just a casual thing, though, a coupla' beers.

[MustLoveBeagles]

102. I think you're right

[Guilded Lilly]

105. Fake News!!! Didn't they mean Stink Hole???

[Totally Tunsie]

108. Just outside the Press Briefing Room?

Geez, this administration will do anything to bury the news.

[heaven05]

114. welcome to the swamp

look who's added to the swamp. The WH just may fall into a big sinkhole and good riddance to the occupants. bye bye grifter-in-chief.

[niyad]

115. I talked to my cousin--he says he doesn't want these creatures soiling his place.

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