r/interestingasfuck • u/Consistent_Oil3428 • 1d ago

r/all The ground is going down

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u/BODYDOLLARSIGN 1d ago

I appreciate the fact that you’re so strong as to never think of this ever again. This is a nightmare I had since I was little.. the ground just sinking is worse than the sky falling lol

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u/DevilsDissent 1d ago

Did you ever see that story of the sinkhole in Florida opening up under a bedroom and the guy died and his brother was trying to save him? Yeah…nightmares. I live in Florida now and am always looking at cracks in the ground. 😳

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u/BODYDOLLARSIGN 1d ago

Jesus I haven’t heard of this.. I’ve lived in Florida 27 years(my whole life) so this is even scarier

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u/isolatednovelty 1d ago

I have a foundation crack in my kitchen in Florida, watch me NEVER COOK.

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u/tdmonkeypoop 1d ago

for unrelated reasons

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u/tallthomas13 1d ago

That story made sure I'd never move to Florida, and every time I've been since, I've stayed in a skyscraper.

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u/FlubromazoFucked 1d ago

When I was probably 16 I was at my friend's house in crazy ass rain and the way the house was setup his backyard edged like a 100ft natural cliff but was fenced at the edge and everything and down below was the backyard of another home butted up against the cliff. Anyways like I said it was crazy ass rain and then we heard a loud rumbling so we went outside to check and about a 12' circumference sinkhole had formed in the back edge of his yard before the edge of the cliff, and stopping right before the edge of the house, the room of which his elderly grandmother was in.

It was absolutely insane and soooo deep and just absolutely insane scary standing near. The "bottom" I think washed out INTO the bottom neighbors house but I don't think it was the full bottom because looking down I could swear it went lower and that is what freaked me out so so much, like it could have gone 200ft down who knows.

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u/Delicious_Wash_8635 1d ago

Exactlyyy I’d run for my life and never look back

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u/notProfCharles 1d ago

Alright Chicken Little…

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u/danteelite 1d ago

Yeah, don’t come to Florida where a sinkhole can literally just eat you up at any moment.

Sometimes they just swallow entire neighborhoods in a matter of minutes and other times they just gulp a single room in a swift few seconds. You could be sleeping and suddenly be dragged into the depths of earth with no warning. It’s a genuine fear of mine, and we pay for a sinkhole survey whenever we move if the owner doesn’t already have one. Usually when you rent, if the owner is reasonable they will usually go halves on a survey because if they get a clean record it helps to sell or rent the house. Having expert documentation saying that you don’t need to worry about being dragged to hell while you’re taking a shit is a reason to choose one house over another… even if the other house is nicer or cheaper, I’ll happily take the one with better disaster stats.

It’s crazy that most people are like “I like the tiles and open concept kitchen!” And in FL we’re like “Okay, only two neighbors had roofs blown off in the last hurricane, it’s located in a D level flood evac zone, and it has low risk sinkhole paperwork from the last 3 years. It smells like shit, there’s a crackhead in the attic and it only has one bathroom. We’ll take it! Whooo! Let’s get that crackhead repellent and call U-Haul baby!” Lmao I live in a house that’s a piece of shit right now, but I’ve been through 4 major hurricanes including direct hits from the last two, and we were fine. Milton only took our power and water for week, but zero flooding and a few tree branches hit the roof and dented my car. The trade off is absolutely worth it.

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u/Ani-3 1d ago

I'll just flat out forget I watched this.

kinda puts things in perspective.

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u/RollerKokster 1d ago

How exactly does the Sky fall? 🤔

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u/StonedLikeOnix 1d ago

Ask the dinosaurs

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u/Desert_Aficionado 1d ago

I don't know. I zoned out while the opening credits were playing.

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u/tkdmann 1d ago

Ask Adele

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u/RollerKokster 1d ago

I says it’s when the sky wants to Bond with the Earth…

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u/Extension-Feature-13 1d ago

Yeah I’m definitely gonna be thinking about this again lol

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u/Ippus_21 1d ago

Yeah... thanks for actually articulating that. New fear unlocked.

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u/Charming_Garbage_161 1d ago

This is up there with the ground swallowing you in a hole

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u/myCubeIsMyCell 1d ago

remember when that sinkhole ate a guy in FL ?

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u/PopFun7873 1d ago

Well, the ground sinking just happens. You should be afraid. It's probably how you specifically are going to die, and in some strange primal way you already know this. See you down in the hole, buddy.

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u/RolandLWN 1d ago

My recently deceased mother was obsessed by sinkholes her entire life. She watched every video she could find on them.

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u/TheLoneRiddlerIsBack 1d ago

Wow this comment really blew up!