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If anyone has followed a couple of my posts on my personal facebook page, the sink holes started forming before the flood waters receded.... We had one 50 feet deep open up on a road not far from my house, a friend looked out their window to find their well gone, and it just goes on......
Sadly because the state of Florida always caves in to insurers a lot of people only have coverage if their home is condemned and sink holes are very expensive to fill.
But here's another one not to far from my house, might actually be closer then the 50 ft deep one. Poor dog fell in and was rescued the next morning.
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Aren't they? And you have to remember that this is a very rural county with limited funding. I'm sure they did not have state of the art equipment to see what they were getting into and I'm not sure how stable the walls of a sink hole are since they seem to expand a lot.......
And pop up out of no where.
I've walked 1/2 my property today making sure we don't have any hard to see ones and will walk the other 5 acres that aren't fenced in and that the dogs don't have normal access to this afternoon.
I'm having a hard time visualizing one of my weasels sitting calmly on a ledge with underground rivers to play in!
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And I see that it could easily happen without ever even finding the dog or knowing what happened to him.
I had never thought of it before, but I do wonder how much wild life/dogs are lost in the sinkholes. I really think we are breaking records for them this year.
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Wow Betty, that's really something to be dealing with. And poor Jasmine, I get this:
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she's now reluctant to return to the great outdoors.
Have to share. Many years ago, out riding, we stopped at our house for some lunch. We'd put barriers up around the back yard, let the horses graze and we went in to eat.
I came out to find my horse's back end completely submerged in the lawn. She was struggling with her front legs and going down fast.
One emergency call and we ended up with firemen, animal control, the police, a tow truck, a vet and a guy from environment.
It turned out to be an old septic tank that was never filled in. The firemen actually had to remove the dirt, digging her down into it then used a bunch of their hoses to strap around her.
They were able to lift her enough so that she was just slightly above the edge and then kind of rolled her out.
It was really something and no, she would not set foot in that back yard again.
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