{"id":13827,"date":"2015-08-05T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=13827"},"modified":"2015-08-05T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:45:52","slug":"the-usual-detour-around-shiloh-road-sinkhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/the-usual-detour-around-shiloh-road-sinkhole.html","title":{"rendered":"The usual detour around Shiloh Road sinkhole"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nLAKE learned about this because the County Clerk shared it on facebook\r\nto her friends some of whom happen to be Gretchen’s friends.\r\nMaybe mighty Lowndes County can afford its own facebook page?\r\n\r\n\"300x533<\/a>\r\n

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\r\nPLEASE SHARE. Lowndes County Engineering has closed Shiloh Road\r\nat Franks Creek due to a very large sinkhole.\r\nCitizens will need to take the usual detour.\r\nPlease do not visit the area, this is not a photo opportunity.\r\nSinkholes are unpre…\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThat personal Paige Dukes facebook post did not seem to have\r\nany corresponding information on lowndescounty.com last night.\r\n

\r\nThe VDT took it as a photo opportunity.\r\nAdam Floyd, VDT, 7:27 am 5 August 2015,\r\n\r\nLarge sinkhole swallows pond, closes Shiloh Rd.<\/a>,\r\n\r\n\r\n

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<\/a>\r\nVALDOSTA—A large sinkhole opened up Tuesday night in Lowndes\r\nCounty, closing one road and swallowing an entire pond.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“We have had a giant sink hole open on Shiloh Rd. at Franks\r\nCreek. It started on private property and has swallowed up an entire\r\npond,” said Lowndes County Clerk Paige Dukes. “Right\r\nnow, we’ve got three places right next to the road that have opened\r\nup.”…\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nEngineering crews are at the sinkhole this morning, and The Valdosta\r\nDaily Times will be reporting from the scene later today.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThe VDT also\r\n\r\ntweeted that story<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nOn lowndescounty.com later this morning,\r\nSHILOH ROAD SINKHOLE — UPDATE 9:20 A.M.<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\n“We have had a giant sink hole open on Shiloh Rd. at Franks\r\nCreek. It started on private property and has swallowed up an entire\r\npond,” said Lowndes County Clerk Paige Dukes. “Right\r\nnow, we’ve got three places right next to the road that have opened\r\nup.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nLast night, it was too dark for Lowndes County Engineering crews to\r\nevaluate the size of the sinkhole, but because of the extremely\r\nunstable conditions, Shiloh Rd. was closed, said Dukes.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“Citizens will need to take the usual detour. Please do not\r\nvisit the area. This is not a photo opportunity,” said Dukes.\r\n“Sinkholes are unpredictable and can be extremely\r\ndangerous.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThere is a twitter account,\r\n\r\n@Lowndes411<\/a>,\r\nwhich did tweet 7:02 AM this morning<\/a>:\r\n

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\r\nEngineering has closed Shiloh Road at Franks Creek. A sink hole in\r\nthe area may impact the road. More info will be available in the\r\na.m.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nStill no @Lowndes411 tweet about the 9:20 AM update.\r\n

\r\nWhat is “the usual detour” anyway?\r\nAnd does this happen so often such a thing is needed?\r\n

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