# Sinkhole Swallows 8 Corvettes **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [February 13, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701 "2014-02-13T03:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/1 "2014-02-13T03:58:31Z")
Don’t let this happen to your sleek black beauties: > **[Corvettes fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum - CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/us/national-corvette-museum-cars-fall/)** > > Eight corvettes fell into a sinkhole that opened up beneath a section of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky on Wednesday ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/2 "2014-02-13T04:04:43Z")
Watch it start here: ---
**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/3 "2014-02-13T04:10:46Z")
Wow. Good thing the security cameras caught the culprit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/4 "2014-02-13T04:16:25Z")
Wow. THAT, my friends, is the difference between a pothole and a sinkhole! ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/5 "2014-02-13T04:41:23Z")
Made more sense when I found out Mammoth cave was only a few miles away… ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/6 "2014-02-13T04:49:27Z")
Uff Da (ND term that seems appropriate Uff pronounced like oops and short a) ---
**Author:** ![wolyrobb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wolyrobb/32/45497_2.png) [@wolyrobb](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wolyrobb)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 7:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/7 "2014-02-13T07:34:49Z")
They’re looking at recovering most if not all of the cars from what i’ve been reading, as far as restoring the damage who knows? ---
**Author:** ![dagosa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/dagosa/32/9837_2.png) [@dagosa](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dagosa)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/8 "2014-02-13T08:53:46Z")
Anyone with a crane want a new car ? ---
**Author:** ![DrRocket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/drrocket/32/2603_2.png) [@DrRocket](https://community.cartalk.com/u/DrRocket)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/9 "2014-02-13T09:44:17Z")
I just read that all of the cars still sitting on the floor have been moved to safety. (How can they be SURE about that?) They will retrieve the cars in the hole, but some of them have quite a bit of damage. If you go to the museum’s web page, they’ve posted quite a few photos. They’re pretty starteling to look at. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/10 "2014-02-13T09:59:37Z")
That is a tremendous shame. Been there and saw that area. The cars down the hole were some prime rides. I guess I felt just a smidge better that none of those were reported to be personal collector cars which they have quite a few of on display. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/11 "2014-02-13T11:05:02Z")
25 feet deep? Wow if you can’t trust solid ground, what can you trust. I went through the ice once as a kid, and for a long time even walking on concrete made me think of falling through. Don’t like this one bit. ---
**Author:** ![dagosa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/dagosa/32/9837_2.png) [@dagosa](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dagosa)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/12 "2014-02-13T17:07:02Z")
I don’t know if many understand how really unstable the ground is under many areas. There is really no such thing as solid ground in some places. Unless the bedrock is really deep, you need to do a lot of test drilling before you build a large heavy building. Things can change quickly too if the building around the one in question disrupts anything. No one saw this comming I guess. But like much of California and many parts of the rest of the world, many are just living on borrowed time ---
**Author:** ![ken\_green](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/ken_green/32/816_2.png) [@ken\_green](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ken_green)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/13 "2014-02-13T20:28:15Z")
Went looking for more videos and there’s one with an r.c. helicopter camera that goes down in the hole. You can clearly see a much much deeper hole waay down there and the hole’s void reaches way under the remaining floor surface…it’s not over yet. Getting a crane in there will be one huge risk. ---
**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/14 "2014-02-13T21:54:29Z")
Here’s that drone video. Pretty amazing. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/15 "2014-02-14T02:40:59Z")
Very neat video. The whole region is cris-crossed with caves, so somebody could (if they weren’t too smart) climb down into those unstable holes and map a whole new cave system. Those cars are gong to be there a while… ---
**Author:** ![Marnet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/marnet/32/41_2.png) [@Marnet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Marnet)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 8:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/16 "2014-02-14T08:53:46Z")
Wow. Makes me all the more antsy to sell and move from the house I inherited, as it sits on top of a cave like a majority of homes in this immediate area. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/17 "2014-02-14T13:50:42Z")
Thank goodness this happened at night an no visitors or staff were injured. ---
**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/18 "2014-02-14T20:10:29Z")
Here’s some background: > **[About that Corvette Sinkhole...](https://www.cartalk.com/blogs/jim-motavalli/about-corvette-sinkhole)** > > Catch that photo of the Corvettes in the sinkhole... aka, The World's Most Expensive Hole? Here's how it happened. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/19 "2014-02-14T20:33:19Z")
I forgot how close the plant was to Mammoth caves. Been there a few times when I was stationed at Ft Campbell. They still haven’t been able to explore all of Mammoth caves. So it wouldn’t surprise me if the plant was built over one of it’s undiscovered caverns. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701/20 "2014-02-14T23:55:14Z")
I’m not a sink hole expert but in other areas I believe a high water table that washes away the limestone layer is a major contributor. You would think that before building, soil samples would have been taken to determine the quality of the ground and if there was a cave underneath. [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sinkhole-swallows-8-corvettes/83701.md?page=2)