Sinkholes...

[passionflower]

Can someone ask LP, Tes, about how to search around these???

 

[shadow of my mind]

Lake Eola in downtown Orlando is technically a sink hole. Found that out when I was looking at info to confirm that what Will W. said about seeing fireworks at Lake Eola Park on July 4 was true.

Lake Eola is actually a sinkhole lake like many of the lakes in central Florida. The actual sinkhole is located north of its signature fountain and goes to a depth of approximately 80 ft.
http://www.cityoforlando.net/fpr/net/t_ParkRec.aspx?Park=062

 

[lisalei321]

I'm at work (no downlowads), and don't read "ping" really well, can anyone check and see if this database matches any known pings from KC's phone?

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/geology/g...e_database.htm

 

[Friptzap]

I posted this on another thread as well. :

Honestly a sinkhole is no different than a lake or a pond. Many of the lakes here are sinkholes. There is one in winterpark that was once a porche dealerships parking lost, now it is a porche underwater graveyard. Several cars went for a swim and never came back. Seriously though its no different than any other lake or pond and just as deep as most. Unless it doesn't have water in it yet then it is just a sunken depression of ground, but it will eventually fill up with water.

 

[Hope for the Best]

Lake Eola in downtown Orlando is technically a sink hole. Found that out when I was looking at info to confirm that what Will W. said about seeing fireworks at Lake Eola Park on July 4 was true.

Lake Eola is actually a sinkhole lake like many of the lakes in central Florida. The actual sinkhole is located north of its signature fountain and goes to a depth of approximately 80 ft.
http://www.cityoforlando.net/fpr/net/t_ParkRec.aspx?Park=062

Interesting! We've been to Lake Eola many times and I never knew it was a sinkhole. We actually went to the Lake Eola fireworks this year, too and ended up sitting next to a big group of sort of obnoxious early 20 somethings. For all I know, maybe it was KC's group!

 

[piratemom]

Why cant they let the cad dogs loose by all the pinged sinkholes?

 

[Darla]

It is quite interesting that sinkholes appear to be something that Casey researched on her computer. (My statement is based only on conjecture and not fact, since, after reading how StumbleUpon works, it is possible that this term randomly appeared as a searched term.)

Does anyone know if any of the 100 or so TES trained searchers who live in the area might also own a cadaver dog?

I would think that with a cross-reference database of the cell phone pings and a map of the local sinkholes, a searcher with a cadaver dog could make short work of checking out those areas. A cadaver dog would be able to quickly rule out any and all of the sinkholes, without animal or human searchers ever having to traverse into each of the sinkholes.

This sinkhole concept might be something that the searchers might be interested in hearing.

Speaking of cadaver dogs...Why haven't they taken dogs out to that area near the airport where someone said they saw a woman coming out of the woods. IIRC didn't she see a car (same as Casey's) she thought belonged to her friend pulled over on side of highway but when got closer realized it wasn't her friends car. I believe this was a credible witness. I really think they should go over that area again thoroughly with cadaver dogs.

 

[Cher352]

I posted this on another thread as well. :

Honestly a sinkhole is no different than a lake or a pond. Many of the lakes here are sinkholes. There is one in winterpark that was once a porche dealerships parking lost, now it is a porche underwater graveyard. Several cars went for a swim and never came back. Seriously though its no different than any other lake or pond and just as deep as most. Unless it doesn't have water in it yet then it is just a sunken depression of ground, but it will eventually fill up with water.

Oh I remember that one. Was living only a few blocks from there at the time. In addtion to the dealership, it took at least one house, Most of Dennings Dr and a public pool too all in one day! Big excitement for a while there. It now a nice lake and park.

But honestly most of the many lakes here in Florida were started as a sink holes and new ones form all the time. It is not like they are giant abyss or a cavern or such just look like a lake or pond. With the sandy soil here which caved in around them when they stop growing there is no steep ledge to them.

 

[ThoughtFox]

I'm bumping up this thread so others can see it. I didn't realize till today (thanks to cocoamom) that Casey might have known something about sinkholes. It's odd, but it might be worth pursuing.

Sinkholes creep me out for some reason, and I've actually had dreams about them all my life. I don't live in Florida, but I live in a limestone cave region and every now and then, someone will get a sinkhole in their yard. That happened to some neighbors of mine when I was growing up, and I thought it was scary. I was fascinated last year by the giant sinkhole down in Texas.