Eight Corvettes swallowed by massive sink hole at National Corvette Museum

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:07 am

A 40-foot sink hole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green swallowed eight of the sports cars on display inside the the facility’s iconic Sky Dome Wednesday morning, said executive director Wendell Strode.

Some time before 5:30 a.m. the sink hole started to form, authorities believe and by 5:39 a.m. power in the museum was lost and police were called, he said.

When they got to the museum, emergency personnel discovered a 40-foot sink hole between 25 and 30 feet deep, Strode said. “It’s pretty significant,” he said.

Eight cars dropped into the hole, five of which were owned by the museum and three by General Motors.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/ ... tte-Museum

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 10:16 am

my nephew lives right by there and works at the corvette plant next door to this museum . scarry to think about . whats up with all these sink holes !

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:08 am

you pump the water out of the ground....

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:33 pm

And oil/coal/ore...

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:21 pm

Happens here in Florida all the time. We have limestone and a fairly shallow aquifer.

HOWEVER, a commercial building like that should have had ground borings done before the foundation was poured. They're required here. If people had been standing in there, it would have been awful.

Did you watch the surveillance video? Pretty wild.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:20 pm

HOWEVER, a commercial building like that should have had ground borings done before the foundation was poured.

I wonder if that was done at the time that building was built? Whatever caused that probably happened long after it was built, water drainage problem? We'll probably find out soon enough.
Happens here after severe flooding.

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:22 pm

was just on the local news tonight that they plan is to recover these car and have them shipped to be restored in the warren ,Michigan tech center of general motors and then returned to bowling green ky.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:41 pm

FOLLOWUP:
Some of them are salvageable, but a few seem to be a total loss.

Some sinkhole Corvettes may not get fixed
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/26/travel/co ... ?hpt=hp_c2

After engineers hauled it to the surface, one museum official said the Mallett Hammer had been reduced to "just a tire."

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 12:06 pm

Some of them are salvageable, but a few seem to be a total loss.

After engineers hauled it to the surface, one museum official said the Mallett Hammer had been reduced to "just a tire."

im sure they will save it

? is there enough left to cover the cost to the haul it to the scrapper ?

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:19 am

that looks better than some Chevy cars i see on the road today. ZING!

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:04 pm

before and after pictures - http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/26/travel/co ... index.html