The Horrifying Truth Of Sinkholes | THE WEATHER FILES: TOTAL IMPACT | Earth Stories

Witness the terrifying power of nature as sinkholes swallow cars, homes, and even entire buildings, leaving devastation in their wake. From Florida's limestone geology to the shrinking Dead Sea, discover the global reach of sinkhole phenomena and the efforts to detect and mitigate their impact using modern technology. Join us as we delve into the unpredictable world beneath our feet and uncover the secrets of these geological disasters.
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[@Bettinasisrg]

Most people are useless during an emergency, but there are those who can keep a level head and plan quickly to survive, those are the people you want to listen to! They're obvious but not obnoxious.

[@neilsmith2047]

Just a thiought. On the collapsing hotel, the fire alarm would be thd best way to alert everyone. Door to door is pointless.

[@karenphillips140]

Smart!!

[@meemo32086]

I kept yelling that!

[@BubblesMcGhee]

Also? There’s something to be said about not building on swampland. Mother Nature may want her land back.

[@nelliethursday1812]

Or build on the ocean like San Francisco's Marina district. Plus many other such ways of building on water throughout America and other places outside the US I am sure

[@lisaschuster686]

The Mexican Indians feed Mother Earth with these mouths.

[@darnold4268]

The Everglades are protected, thankfully.

[@BubblesMcGhee]

@@darnold4268 Yes, for now & for a long time to come. BUT much of Florida was built on reclaimed swamps. Scary.

[@sootuckchoong7077]

16:36 I think this was how rivers and seas were formed millions of years ago.

[@vickythefist7062]

New fear unlocked . Turns out I'm not even completely safe as i sit here in my home on the sofa watching KZbin 😂😂

[@SteveSmith-lo2wd]

Yeppers!! No place safe on the planet. But hey what can we do about it.. 😂

[@felicitybywater8012]

Thanks for the warning about how many theme parks Orlando has. Theme parks are my idea of hell.

[@AntonioPeralesdelHierro]

Trump wants the whole US as his 'theme park.' And don't let that garbage-head control an army!!

[@RobertoLopez-zb5dd]

Many of the buildings in Florida are built on reclaimed land, land that was once a body of water or swamp. They fill it with dirt and build on top, what could go wrong?

[@stevehall383]

The 2013 sinkhole in Seffner was only about two miles from my home. I had been in that neighborhood the weekend before this happened.

[@PatrickBaptist]

The security man was such a hero! You couldn't pay me to live in FL, it's a humid tourist trap land.

[@maxxmich]

You don't build on swamp land.

[@KellySwavel-jw2ir]

When you lose your home in this way if you did not buy sink hole insurance you won't get a dime for your home or belongings. 😞

[@1badjane493]

​@@KellySwavel-jw2irwow...another $$$$ making racket...🙄 ...

[@evelynchuter8106]

Obvious the idiots do.

[@diane1390]

Sink holes are interesting. You seriously 😒 can't learn enough about them. I've learned a lot from this video alone, and has really wetted my taste to learn more.

[@thetrainwreck1469]

Not one of these people had the wherewithal to pull the fire alarm. Geeze.

[@BubblesMcGhee]

FYI- central Florida isn’t beachfront. Working for a hotel company? It was frustrating when on the “front lines” and on the phones, taking calls for reservations & folks would ask for ocean front rooms at WDW area properties. Who gets yelled at? The hotel employee. Editing like this makes me giggle and sinkholes are really not a laughing matter. Just letting you know. ✌🏽

[@lynettelark7281]

Which hotel is this?

[@michelemcguire8995]

It's a disaster waiting for a fine family aka victims with deep pockets..

[@darnold4268]

​@@lynettelark7281 Probably Walt Disney World. Not sure... Just a guess.

[@eduardooramaeddie4006]

You could say, that sinkholes really belongs to earth 🌎, but humans decided to built houses 🏘

[@CrystalMouse1]

Thanks for saying so cuz I’d love it if the people asked the Seminole people how to build houses in the swamp rather than white people boxes

[@rcristy]

​@@CrystalMouse1 "white"??? 🙄

[@MusicLovingFool1]

Lol...on dead giants. The Earth is biological. What they call "Myths", may actually be "Truth". We will see.

[@caroldorsett8170]

I have had two sinkholes occur in my life so far the last one was in my yard just six feet from my back door. So scary! So I refuse to go to Florida ever. This is a nightmare! Those caves are another nightmare!!!!!

[@reclaimingminds2811]

Brilliant documentary and explanation_ thank you 💖

[@stevenherrold5955]

they say florida is supposed to be some kind of paradise sound more like hell to me and if not a sink destroying your house its a hurricane you can't win so then i wonder why florida is not a great big wild life preserve

[@valkyrie1066]

Perhaps it should be ONLY resorts....It's a beautiful place to visit, but...to LIVE there? (1 year in Tampa) Oh, no, no, no. I have a whole list of reasons. We can visit to view the swamps and alligators.

[@hellooutthere8956]

They started filling in the everglades until they became protected when their ecological importance was realized. Corporations and profit. Trump and his "drill baby drill" idiocy.

[@vickythefist7062]

Don't forget alligators 😂😂 and mosquitos not my idea of fun times!!

[@margyrowland]

Not such a bad idea

[@mjleger4555]

And a town on the mid-east coast of Florida, is the shark-bite capital of the world! Between sinkholes, heat and humidity, hurricanes, etc., you won't catch me even visiting there anymore! I lived by the ocean for years and loved it, but it was in the northwest of the US, and now I live in the country, in the mountains in the northwest inland and love the snow, quiet and serenity of a small town nearby, so I'll live it out the rest of my life here!

[@lisaschuster686]

Why do people say, “The best way I can explain it…”? it’s BEEN explained. You are DESCRIBING it.

[@user-wi9bn8mt6b]

😂😂😂

[@hellooutthere8956]

Yet ppl dont think we neèd to live in harmony with nature.

[@RobertoLopez-zb5dd]

There was a home in Mulberry, Fl that did this. The family woke to rafters cracking and bowing, they fled the house in their PJ’s and made it out. By 10 am the house was fully engulfed. The county filled in the hole and placed a playground on it, I’ve never seen a child out there. Sink holes in that part of Florida re very cooked the phosphate mines have been dogging the earth for about a hundred years. Nearly every home in Mulberry has cracks. I also remember the one in Valrico about 20 miles from Mulberry to the west close to Tampa. A man lost his life and this was unbelievable but it happened.

[@prahfetts825]

The whole world is a sinkhole waiting to happen I believe this generation will see very soon

[@lewisjeffreys9175]

I guess you're a glass half empty kinda person...

[@lisaschuster686]

@@lewisjeffreys9175Or an engineer. The glass is the wrong size. 😊

[@genebohannon8820]

Y'all can afford water in the O'Biden economy?

[@mjleger4555]

Well, that's pessimistic, but it IS getting worse here on our Planet Earth, and you can chalk it up to the human population explosion that saw us going from 2.5 billion in 1950, to 8 billion in just 72 years! That SHOULD scare us silly, but clearly doesn't!

[@bobthebuilder9416]

I was thinking the same thing. Not happy about it. Whether you are on land or sea it won't matter unfortunately

[@BubblesMcGhee]

Hey! That’s Lake Padgett in LO’L, FL. Just like the butter. My folks live a few blocks from there. You can see their home in the drone footage. That was TERRIFYING back then. They did sink hole surveys. The county or insurance should have done it for the locals right? Nope. Out of pocket and it’s not cheap. It’s still an empty plot of land. Not doxing, all googlable.

[@angelaboyd99]

When I lived in South East Florida, the block I lived in was on a dead coral reef. Multiple times a day there were sounds like a bowling ball hitting the lane. We were even on a news station, back in either the late 80’s or early 90’s… Then if you cross the state from east to west, the highway nicknamed Alligator Alley.

[@carinwiseman4309]

Clermont is nowhere near the ocean btw. They are showing pictures of Clearwater Beach...nowhere near Clermont.

[@sarahlashley4564]

What does Clermont have to do with Clearwater? They are appx 100 miles apart. Clermont is in the center of the state just west of Disney world. Clearwater is on the West coast on the gulf of Mexico. A beautiful coast of clear waters thus the name.

[@shahzadazulfiqar1]

Respect For A Very Scientific Work Regarding Sinkholes , A Serious Matter Could Appear To Be Global , All Praise To The Almighty Owner Of Earth Crust & Life Over It. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@robertplocke]

Terrifying!! Thank God everyone survived!

[@mark.mcghie3065]

i can't believe people still build on that area knowing it's riddled with sink holes .. are the crazy, . they should know what's coming

[@pnewt3378]

My favorite fishing spot was a sink hole

[@user-xb9xr6vd5q]

Another thought is why do these companies CEOs think they need to torture the ground. As in basements messing with the ground.

[@maureenlas4367]

This was like watching a horror movie.

[@vickythefist7062]

We don't get many in the UK and definitely not big ones !!

[@amberstreetfilms]

Watching now. Very well done. Glad I came across your channel. Subscribed.

[@gregatkinson7276]

It is common to show the Louisiana "sink hole" when it is not at all a sinkhole just dramatic footage of what appears to be is all. The draining of that lake was caused by salt miners that made a terrible miscalculation is all.

[@darnold4268]

To add another problem to the equation, in Florida, we have " Big Sugar" issues. They're seemingly untouchable. The runoff of the pesticides looks like black death, as it enters our waterways. Big Sugar refused to take accountability for the damages they are a major part of causing, such as Red Tide. Big Sugar likes to finger point, instead... "land development". Civial engineers wanted to make improvements to better waterway flow. Big Sugar said "No", and threatened with huge lawsuits. Lake Okachobee has already reached its peak of suffering from Big Sugar runoff. I'm beginning to feel like, after 54 years of being a Florida resident, the only fresh water that we can truly rely on will come from sink holes.

[@HearturMind]

The earth has been expanding for millionscl of years. Thats what it does. Many places on earth splitting in a big way. Google Africa splitting apert and huge gap opens after Turkish quake. Great drone footage of these. Turkey one happened in minutes! Hundreds of ft. Wide and 100 ft deep.

[@Bettinasisrg]

And you're an earth scientist? Let me tell about open heart surgery, oh wait I'm not a heart surgeon so I can't!

[@annhernandez8808]

The wise man builds his house upon a rock! If you learned nothing else from Sunday School, this would be helpful...😂

[@diane1390]

Israel needs to get it's water from other sources, like ocean water. The country of Soudi Arabia gets water like that and desalinate it.

[@vickythefist7062]

And don't forget Saudi steals water from other people by " cloud harvesting" now that they have the technology to make it rain on qué . Only thing is once it starts they can't get it to stop raining as recent events have proved 😂😂

[@sjj7236]

Florida, alligators, sink holes, hurricanes, tornadoes, storm surges and major flooding, earthquakes and heat waves..... no way would I want to live there.

[@jackiejones8411]

Loved this but KZbin spoilt it with 35 adverts

[@Purplepinkmom]

There are some who suggest that all this is due to an expanding global, not human expansion.

[@Bettinasisrg]

Well there's also people that believe the earth is flat or only 6,000 years old. Truly in denial

[@shahzadazulfiqar1]

Do these Floridian patches could disappear Florida to be swallowed as a whole ? As it's an alarming.

[@ginaanderson4606]

I would say the ocean is starting to take Florida from the ground up. It's going to slowly wash into the ocean.

[@deannekliene2673]

All sinkholes on Missouri map run down interstate 44....

[@mpinline1]

This looks like an AI generated channel, the video is so detached from reality it's mind-boggling. They stitched together random clips that have nothing to do with the actual disaster. It's disgusting how many of these fake "for clicks" channels are littering KZbin these days, spreading fake "documentaries". SMH

[@DToschi415]

Why is there such loud background music?

[@sforza209]

22:59 this guy is definitely not a poet and he 100% knows it.

[@Marchant2]

Yet another reason to stay far away from Florida.

[@user-zr7yo1cj3g]

I live in California up in gold country & apparently what's underground looks like swiss cheese due to all the abandoned mines in this area

[@marypuhl4555]

Why don’t they close off some of Jordan?

[@RochelleHickey-yu4jb]

Are there any sinkholes in Port Richey that anybody knows of

[@lisaschuster686]

I feel for people who turned fixer-uppers into things of beauty. Oy!

[@ChristopherBoyking-xr1lt]

They need to start putting stilts all over where they haven't started yet either to prevent future problems

[@user-xb9xr6vd5q]

Would this be the cause of the weather shifting around the world?? Or something else??

[@MarilynGratton]

Is this why people are moving to other states???? 🇦🇺

[@faithrada]

Few can afford the INSURANCE any more. No insurance/ no mortgage. Only CASH buyers can afford it now.

[@davepane7306]

God forbid this should happen at Disney.

[@mimilong3817]

Why not Engineer flotation structure (like styrofoam) underneath the entire house so that if a sinkhole develops, the house would stay intact and float? Of course utilities would have to be anchored somehow or breakaway and restore later.

[@mimilong3817]

And why can’t engineers use sonar to detect cavities?

[@Bettinasisrg]

It always comes down to money and whether they want to spend it on figuring out solutions bettering us and the planet or themselves.

[@FEJK82]

Stop showing people describe it, and just show the damn video!

[@AntonioPeralesdelHierro]

When the narrator is targeting my emotions unneccesarily the sound gets turned off.

[@josieruiz3946]

It has always rained no all of sudden it water causing sing holes this si all wrong! So we must be worried about the rain ?

[@Bettinasisrg]

Mainly it's because we're emptying the reservoirs so they're now empty caves aka sinkholes.

[@thomasjensen6243]

He said "no animals died in that sinkhole". The fact is Millions of animals died.

[@yeorges]

This is nature that’s it

[@susieoughton8836]

It’s a God thing.

[@Bettinasisrg]

Looks like God doesn't like Florida.

[@faithrada]

It's ALL a God Thing. 😊

[@sjj7236]

Whats with overly dramatic narration. Can you use a normal voice?

[@lisaschuster686]

It’s not God, it’s his wife, Mother Earth.

[@faithrada]

All the SAME Consciousness. Nothing is sepeate from THAT all pervasive ONE.

[@maxxmich]

Thought our police were supposed to be in shape and fit for duty, like like a roly poly

[@StephenBishopNOMAD]

Just a repeat, weve seen these vids far too many times now YAWN 🥱🥱🥱🥱