Florida sinkhole: Search for Jeffrey Bush called off

[Gerald]

Heavy machinery will be brought in to demolish the house.

Rescue teams in Florida have called off their efforts to recover the body of a man swallowed by a huge sinkhole under his home.

Jeffrey Bush, 36, who is presumed dead, disappeared into the sinkhole that engulfed his bedroom while he slept on Thursday night.

The house, in the suburbs of Tampa, will be destroyed, officials said.

Sinkholes are common in certain parts of Florida, although most are quite small.

"At this point it's really not possible to recover the body," Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21646227

Note: 2 March 2013 Last updated at 23:44 GMT

What a fate to be pulled down over his own house,:nope:

[Armistead]

That was terrible, but I agree it wasn't worth risky another life to save a dead person. I think they say they hole is 50ft deep now.

[em2nought]

Makes you wish for a few hundred dollars worth of rebar in your slab. :huh:

[Simmy]

What a horrible way to die. Wake up to find the earth itself is eating you up.
R.I.P. Jeff Bush

[Hottentot]

I've been following this too. They say the reason for this may have been something that started developing in earth literally millions of years ago. Talk about incredibly bad luck.

[GT182]

Heard today that it's getting bigger and they're afraid the homes next to it will be swallowed up too. RIP Jeff Bush.

[Sailor Steve]

Not meaning to make light of a tragic event, but as my late friend Rocky used to say, "Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear gets you."

[fireftr18]

The last I heard about the size. It is about 30 feet (9m) wide at the surface, about 100 feet (30m) wide underneath. I read this a couple days ago in one of the fire department trade magazines.

[geetrue]

That house from the outside just looked like another house down in Florida, but I guess on the inside is where it got scary.

Fifty feet down is long way to go when scuba diving ... that's for sure.

I wonder how insurance can pay off if there is no body?

[mookiemookie]

That house from the outside just looked like another house down in Florida, but I guess on the inside is where it got scary.

Fifty feet down is long way to go when scuba diving ... that's for sure.

I wonder how insurance can pay off if there is no body?

Insurance pays off so long as there's a death certificate. So long as the ME is willing to sign off on the fact that his cause of death was being swallowed into the gaping maw of the Earth, his family can collect the insurance.

[geetrue]

I did some searching about sinkholes in Florida and found this one ...
it's 120' down and very very old: http://www.floridastateparks.org/devilsmillhopper/


Welcome to Devil's Millhopper Geological State Park
In the midst of north Florida's sandy terrain and pine forests, a bowl-shaped cavity 120 feet deep leads down to a miniature rain forest. Small streams trickle down the steep slopes of the limestone sinkhole, disappearing through crevices in the ground. Lush vegetation thrives in the shade of the walls even in dry summers. A significant geological formation, Devil's Millhopper is a National Natural Landmark that has been visited by the curious since the early 1880s.

[Madox58]

Sink holes are becoming a problem around the Gulf Coast it seems.
I'm keeping an eye on the one in Louisiana and now this?
:o

Glad I finished up down there and got back North!

(I'm thinking it's a secret FEMA base to train Obama's Storm Troopers causeing the problems. :haha:)

[fithah4]

We had problems in my area after T.S. Debby, water was flowing away from coast finding caves and lower depressions in areas until finally leveling out.

here is a place of intrest next to me:
http://www.floridahikes.com/leon-sinks
Some photo's on web:

http://www.google.com/search?q=leon+sinks&hl=en&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS416US436&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LVw1UbzlOJSs8ASYmYC4Cg&sqi=2&ved=0CEMQsAQ&biw=1382&bih=645

FITH

[Platapus]

I just hope this guy did not suffer too much, but I fear it was not a nice way to die. :nope: