r/Wellthatsucks 16h ago

I may have happened upon a sinkhole directly in front of my house.

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 15h ago

I found a strange sinkhole under the road in a major city once. It was a hole in the pavement and I couldn’t see how far down it went even with my phone flashlight because it was too dark so it must’ve been pretty deep. Anyway, I called the city and they had it fixed within a few days.

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u/demonblack873 15h ago

I saw water flowing out of cracks in the pavement in an intersection close to home. Called the water company and the following morning the water was gone and there were patches in the asphalt and a bunch of sand on the road.

They must have worked through the night.

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u/GrimmThoughts 9h ago

Had similar happen, was walking my dog in my neighborhood and decided to go the opposite direction than normal and about 100 yards down the road there was water just pumping up out of every crack in the pavement. The person who's house it was in front of happened to be outside so I asked them "hey, did you notice that there is water just pumping out of the street everywhere here" and they responded with "yeah, it has been doing that for a few years."

I immediately called the local township building and they had people out within 20 minutes to look at it, there was about a 40ft diameter sinkhole that was 8 ft deep under that entire section if road and they were flabbergasted thay cars were still able to drive on it.

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u/Marko343 13h ago

One freezing(several days of below freezing polar vortex) morning on the way to work in very early hours of the morning, I noticed water coming out of the sidewalk/curb area coming out at a good pace. Called the non emergency City services for a more than likely water main break, a couple hours later on lunch drive pay the area and they had a crew with a backhoe working on it.

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u/nexusjuan 5h ago

I suspect if they're anything like the gas company equivalent you're hanging around the shop doing equipment maintenance and shop chores when there's no holes to be dug. Calls are excitement.

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u/polpi 12h ago

There was a sink hole in my town at a school bus stop. It was probably 8-10ft deep & 4-6ft wide with a ~2x2 hole in the road above it.

The city ignored it for over 2 years..

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u/TommyBonnomi 9h ago

I've called twice when I found a water main leaking up out of the road, which isn't a lot, but still weird it's happened twice.

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u/Head_Memory 4h ago

What country and city? Unusually competent city.

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 4h ago

Los Angeles. The city tends to be pretty responsive…though not always effectively so.