Getting to the bottom of the sinkhole phenomenon
IT’S like something out of the Book of Revelations. The ground suddenly opens up beneath you and you get sucked into the earth, never to be seen again.
This was the fate of Floridian, Jeff Bush last February. The 37-year-old went to bed on a Thursday evening in his unassuming house in a quiet, residential suburb east of Tampa. At some point in the night, the earth beneath his bedroom gave way and he was sucked down into a hole that had not existed seconds before. Afterwards, his younger brother Jeremy, who was sleeping in an adjoining bedroom, told local news stations that the crash which woke him sounded like a truck hitting the side of the house.
