I have a deep fear of sink holes, it taps right into some primeval fear in the reptilian part of my brain. Bit of a risk near where I live because of all the former mines.
BBC News – Major incident declared over Shropshire canal 'sinkhole' – BBC News
by chewmypaws
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The pictures are nuts. I live next to a canal sooo it’s freaked me out a bit.
Curious as to where all the water went.
This is the second major one this year. Look for “Taylors Aboard A Narrowboat” on YouTube for a very well documented look at the Bridgewater breach on Jan 1st this year.
Canāt park that there mate.
I think sinkholes are part of that category of things which warp reality a little
I can see it’s real but my brain is telling me it shouldn’t be.
I immediately thought āWhitchurchā in Hampshire and wondered why Iād never seen a canal, and I grew up there!
I had never heard of a sinkhole until recent years and now this must be the 5th one I’ve seen in the UK alone. There was one on a major street in my city just a few months ago.
Boat on the right: “Hang on a minute lads, I’ve got a great idea.”
Go on a canel trip they said, it will be relaxing they said…
āstricken in a gaping cavityā
Now thatās one hell of a description.
Canāt moor there mate.
Isnāt this just the embankment collapsing? Not a sinkhole
Edit: Iām not sure why people are arguing with me, this is exactly what embankment failures look like š https://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2018/03/16/shropshire-union-canal-embankment-collapse-leaves-boats-stranded/
The crater doesnāt even go below where the natural ground level would have been, itās an artificial mound of earth with a huge amount of water sitting on top of it thatās failed, itās not that deep (literally).
Tiverton canal had a similar issue a few years back. It was impressive to see in person.
I originally thought sinkholes only happened in places with more diverse geography like America. This is terrifying, and I don’t live too far from Shropshire
Not the first gaping cavity on the canals.Ā
It’s wild how something so real can feel so fundamentally wrong. The fact that this is the second major one recently just makes the whole thing more unsettling. I’m definitely going down that YouTube rabbit hole to see where all that water disappears to.
Canal leakage
Gonna be honest, if my house fell in a giant hole for no reason I’d be mildly annoyed.
I usually associate these with old mining areas but this doesn’t seem to be the case. I can’t tell if being in a boat or being in a house is worse if a hole opens up under you.
We tend to forget we have a few thousand miles of unknown below our feet.
Whooo Shropshire mentioned!
Damn, that looks like its their home too. Not good timing. Though sinkholes in a canal never are
It looks like the one at the back has moved onto the tow path? Or am I being stupid?
I grew up in Florida, where sinkholes are an almosty daily occurrence. When I was a child my dog got stuck down in one and the fire brigade (fire department) had to rescue the dummy.
I live on a narrowboat and this is every boaters nightmare. I genuinely have no idea how they’ll get the ones on the bottom of the hole out. They’ll certainly be there for months.
I live on a narrow boat. This is rather concerning, people really needed to wake up.
25 years ago I can remember a report about water table issues, and we need to do this and that.
Never happened.
Now we have sink holes appearing, not just under canals.
Itās happening everywhere.
Towns, roads, cities and under canals.
The canal system is now not funded by central government, without the support of cash, it is impossible to maintain thousands of miles of infrastructure.
Everything is falling to bits..
Heartbreaking.
And for some people, terrifying.
Are the authorities ālooking into itāā¦..šš. Iāll get my coatā¦
Happened a couple of times this year hasnāt it?
Are Rosie and Jim okay?!
For the nostalgia crowd
Wait what? There’s a place called Chemistry?
My irrational fear is getting more rational each day
People are only just hearing about the massive sinkhole in Shropshire? Itās been there for years. We call it Telford.
“in an area of Whitchurch called Chemistry”
What? Why is part of whitchurch called chemistry?!
Crikey: that would certainly give you that sinking feelingā¦or that the bottom had just dropped out of your World! Just as well that Narrowboats are flat bottomed, I guess ā but that poor bugger, hanging on the edgeā¦!
Doesnāt look like a sink hole just looks like the embankment failed.
āCanāt boat there mateā – the sinkhole probably
Does this kind of incident get covered with boat insurance? I can’t imagine “sinkhole collapse” comes up very often. Hope they’re able to recover.Ā
Ian would be in there!
Shout out to āBig Marieā of Whitchurch who now has the second biggest hole In town.
Source: live in Whitchurch.
Sigh at the BBC. It’s not a sinkhole. The embankment supporting the canal has failed (most likely due to a leak in the canal lining leading to water passing through the embankment), allowing water to start flowing, which has then led to a much larger part of the embank embankment being literally washed away by the water pouring out of the canal.
What this canal needs is a motley crew of regionally assorted bricklayers carpenters, plasterers and sparkies to tile it up nicely so that Vicky can finally relax by the pool instead having to go shopping with Brenda every day.
Heard the boat ended up in Twatshire
This is going to make for a mad Rosie and Jim episode.
Someone had a narrow escape.
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