sinkhole schadenfreude

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classic british angle: "will it affect house prices?"

(inc.a poor fellow unable to sell the only house in an entire road in bury st edmunds that fell into a forgotten mine: he's been stuck there since the 60s, while the rest of his very new modern estate turned into wild overrun fenced off wasteland)

mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link

"the uk: a small island riddled with mines"

amusingly, the narrator has actually used -- in passing -- the "it's a minefield" metaphor

mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link

"they drilled more than 100 boreholes round the school" lol

mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link

scale of voids discovered below school measured -- i am pleased to say -- in the correct unit of volume: "16 doubledecker buses"

mark s, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link


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