In 2013 A Sinkhole Swallowed A Man's Bedroom As He Slept. No Trace Of Him Has Been Found.

A distressing storey has resurface on various news exit over the last few days , concerning a man who was swallow up by a sinkhole in Florida on March 1 , 2013 .

Jeff Bush , 37 , was asleep when a sink opened up beneath his abode in Seffner , Florida . The hole – about 6 meters ( 20 feet ) across and deep , according toThe Guardian – open up beneath his bedroom , which was heard by his brother Jeremy , and Jeremy ’s partner Rachel from another elbow room .

" We hear Jeff scream , " Rachel toldABC Action Newsat the time . " We ran down the hallway , I flip the light on and we opened up the door and it ’s all we ’ve seen was a fully grown former hole , and Jeff was gone . "

Jeremy jumped down into the hole to seek to rescue his brother but had to be pulled to refuge by a Hillsborough County lieutenant sheriff as the ground around him continued to cave in .

" The level was still giving in and the turd was still going down , but I did n’t care . I wanted to save my brother , " Jeremy order The Guardian . " But I just could n’t do nothing . "

" I could swear I heard him hollo my name to aid him . "

saver were unable to locate Bush ’s body from the sink , which live with bedroom furniture along with him . The following day , applied scientist determined that the house and dry land were too dangerous to make further attempts at rescue , and it was rather demolished and the hole itselffilled with crushed rock . A few years by and by , the sink opened once more at the land site , now fenced off from the public .

Florida , rich in limestone , is especially susceptible to sinkhole .

" Sinkholes are most vernacular in what geologists call , ' karst terrain ' , " theUS Geological Surveyexplains . " These are neighborhood where the type of rock below the land surface can naturally be dissolve by groundwater circulating through them . Soluble rocks admit salt beds and dome , gypsum , limestone and other carbonate rock . "

With the rock underneath dissolved away , undercover caverns are left underneath the aerofoil . When the weaken surface crumple into the cavern , it creates a sinkhole . They variegate in size of it , from very lowly to the huge one seen at Xiaozhai Tiankeng , lie with as theXiaozhai Heavenly Pit . The sink , retrieve to be the heavy in the earth , beat around 537 time ( 1,762 foundation ) wide and 662 metre ( 1,667 - 2,172 foot ) bass .

An earlier adaptation of this article was published inApril 2023 .