A-Oh, There is a hole eating my lawn
Albert Reitz was out mowing his lawn like he had so many times before. The ground was damp and soft, but one spot next to the street seemed to be moving under Albert’s feet. Sure enough, as he got away from the spot and watched, it started sinking and sinking and sinking until there seemed to be a big tear in the ground with a very large opening right under the street in front of Albert’s house. Once the hole stopped growing the neighbors came to look and sure enough there was a giant sinkhole in Albert’s front lawn and under the street. As the ground continued to move it broke the buried utilities and the water and gas had to be shut off. The hole was so big it took a team of cave explorers to climb into it with ropes and ladders. It turned out that the streets and 12 of the development’s houses were built on top of an abandoned Gypsum mine. The rooms of the mine under their houses, their streets and perhaps even under I-90 were 15 to 30 feet tall and in some cases as much as 80 feet wide. The sinking had been happening over the decades because in one spot in the mine they found a 1951 Ford car stuck in the mine ceiling that had probably pushed through from the surface years ago. The houses had to be evacuated and the road blocked off until it could be determined they would not cave in, like Albert’s lawn. The legal questions began to fly. Why was the developer allowed to build that site and shouldn’t the government or the surveyor or the developer known there was an abandoned mine under them? Black Hawk, South Dakota got its name on the national map… or under it.
Underground Humor
Paddy and Murphy are in a dark cave.
Paddy says “It’s too dark. Do you have a match?”
Murphy hands Paddy a match, which Paddy strikes against the wall..but nothing happens.
He strikes the match again but, again, nothing.
Paddy says to Murphy “This match doesn’t work.”
“That’s strange,” says Murphy. “It worked earlier.”
What country is known for cave paintings?
Den-mark
I recently started a recruitment agency that only deals with the underground mining
industry.
It’s called, “Staff It Where the Sun Don’t Shine.”
My great-grandfather started up an underground distillery during Prohibition.
It was a whiskey business.
February 21st Birthdays
1997 – Sophie Turner, 1988 – Ellen Page, 1988 – Ashley Green, 1980 – Jennifer Love Hewitt
1955 – Kelsey Grammar, 1977 – Mike McIntyre, 1992 – Joe Alwyn, 1990 – Corbin Bleu