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BuckeyeRyn;784516; said:
being swallowed into a sinkhole ranks right up there in my top 5 ways I don't want to die... that would really suck!
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Florida Calls Off Search For Man Swallowed By Sinkhole

Authorities in Florida ended the search Saturday for a man presumed dead after a sinkhole opened beneath the bedroom of his family's suburban Tampa home, swallowing him up.

The effort to recover the body of Jeff Bush had resumed earlier in the day after authorities stopped operations overnight, saying the hole was still expanding and the house could collapse at any time.

"We just have not been able to locate Mr. Bush and so for that reason the rescue effort is being discontinued," Mike Merrill, county administrator for Hillsborough County, told reporters Saturday evening. "At this point, it's really not possible to recover the body."

Merrill said the next phase in the effort would be demolition of the family's home, which would likely begin Sunday morning. He stressed that workers were dealing with a 'very unusual sinkhole' - very deep, wide and extremely unstable.

"We've done everything we believe that we can. We wish we could have done more," Merrill said.

The terror for the Bush family began Thursday night, as everybody in the blue, one-story, 1970s-era home in Seffner was going to bed.

There was a deafening noise.

"I ran toward my brother's bedroom because I heard my brother scream," Jeremy Bush, Jeff Bush's brother, told CNN's 'AC360.'

"Everything was gone. My brother's bed, my brother's dresser, my brother's TV. My brother was gone."

Bush frantically tried to rescue his brother, by standing in the hole and digging at the rubble with a shovel until police arrived and pulled him out, saying the floor was still collapsing.

"I couldn't get him out. I tried so hard. I tried everything I could," he said through tears. "I could swear I heard him calling out."

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All kidding aside, that is something truly terrible to have to go through.
 
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Saw31;2310909; said:
I heard this story on the radio today. Jesus Christ. WTF?!
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Can you imagine trying to explain it at the PTSD support group?

"Hello my name is Jeremy and I'm here because the earth ate my brother's bedroom with him still inside."

I know I'd be sliding my chair away from that guy.
 
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Sink holes are relatively common here in Central Florida. It seems there's one in the news every two or three months. It is actually kind of morbidly fascinating to realize just how much of a risk the area has and learning what causes them and the massive network of caves that may be below the swamps around here.
 
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That is such a sad story. :(

The house directly behind I grew up in slid a few feet one month due to underground water. And then two months after I bought my first house, a couple of houses right around the corner, maybe 5 or 6 lots away, slid down a steep hill within a few days due to underground water.

Good thing for my neighbors I live over old mine tunnels now...
 
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There are "small" sinkholes around the resort property, and a few likely locations, but they stay pretty well on top of them...at least I hope. :lol:

I'll be very interested in finding out the results from the investigation on this particular sinkhole.
 
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