2 new
Florida
sink holes
open up
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla.
(AP)-Two new sinkholes opened up
yesterday, one just five miles from the
huge sinkhole that has swallowed part
of Winter Park. Police blocked off the
areas and residents of threatened
homes hurriedly moved out.
A crater that threatened two homes
here was discovered when Dominick
Cipollone went out to water his gar-
den-and found it was gone.
"THERE WAS this big hole and it
hadn't been there last night," said
Cipollone, 76. "You read about Winter
Park but you never think it can happen
here. But it can happen here."
"I was shocked. I never expected
that," he said as neighbors helped him
move his belongings out of the two-
bedroom house.
While Cipollone and neighbor John
McClellan were moving out of their
homes on either side of the sinkhole in
this suhurban Orlando town, people
living nearby "have been alerted as to
possible evacuation," said John Spolski
of the Seminole County Sheriff's Depar-
tment.
. THE CRATER was just north of the
huge Altamonte Mall, one of Florida's
largest shopping centers.
A third sinkhole was reported yester-
day in Auburndale, about 45 miles
southwest of Orlando.
Auburndale police spokeswoman
Angie Kidwell said no houses were
threatened immediately by the 60-foot-
wide, five-foot-deep sinkhole, which
was nibbling at a road in an area of
orange groves. Police blocked all traf-
fic from the road, she said.
GEOLOGISTS SAID the sinkhole
here was about 50 feet wide and 40 feet
deep,. in the center.
"Nobody can guarantee anything, but
I personally think the subterranean
activity has ceased," said Seminole
County engineer Bill Bush.
The limestone cavern that created
the hole when its top collapsed "may
have filled itself up," Bush said. "We're
going to stay here and monitor to see if
there's any further danger, but the
probability is it has stabilized."
AS SPECTATORS gathered,
Seminole County deputies blocked off a
three-block area. Utility workers cut off
power to the two threatened homes and
several other nearby houses.
"It's frightening really," said Mary
Williams, who lives near the Cipollone
and McClellan homes. "When you don't
know what you're going to find when
you get up in the morning, that's
something."
Soil engineer Bryant Marshall said
central Florida has a geological history
of "ancient sinkhole activity." He said
many of the lakes and other
depressions in the region were formed
by sinkholes thousands of years ago.
AP Photo
Sinkhole plague continues
Florida sinkholes continue to threaten residential areas around Orlando. This new one, approximately 50 feet wide and
40 feet deep, took with ita fence and vegetable garden between two homes.
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