Woman Awakes To Sinkhole Underneath Her Bed
A 65-year-old Guatemala City resident was startled to find a three-foot-wide, 40-foot-deep sinkhole beneath her bed. Its something that sounds straight out of a cheap scary movie. Early Monday morning, Inocenta Hernandez was awoken by a loud boom, which she thought was the explosion of a neighbor’s gas canister.
Sink Hole
Hernandez told the AFP “When we heard the loud boom we thought a gas canister from a neighboring home had exploded, or there had been a crash on the street,” Hernandez said. “We rushed out to look and saw nothing. A gentleman told me that the noise came from my house, and we searched until we found it under my bed. Thank God there are only material damages, because my grandchildren were running around the house, into that room and out to the patio” (Photo Credit: Sarah Cady)
Guatemala City is more prone to sinkholes because it is built on volcanic deposits and has heavy rain throughout the year. Just last year a 60 foot wide sinkhole swallowed a three story building and a house in Guatemala. This women is very lucky she was not on the bed when t
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