{"id":532,"date":"2012-08-29T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T21:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/sinkhole-in-garage.html"},"modified":"2013-04-08T22:49:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T02:49:41","slug":"sinkhole-in-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/sinkhole-in-garage.html","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole in garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/sets\/72157631310277262\/with\/7889680392\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b500970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b500970c-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn what the County Planner calls &#8220;central Lowndes County&#8221; there&#8217;s<br \/>\na sinkhole in a garage,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/fVGd7XNSXeM\"><br \/>\ndeeper than a hoe handle.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fVGd7XNSXeM\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7889680392\/in\/photostream\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b504970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b504970c-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7889680056\/in\/set-72157631310277262\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b507970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b507970c-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\nMichael McCormick called me up yesterday and told me about this<br \/>\nsinkhole in his garage at 4326 Norman Hall Road.<br \/>\nNaturally he&#8217;s a bit concerned about this problem.<br \/>\nHe thinks his insurance may cover it, but he&#8217;s looking for other<br \/>\noptions in case.<br \/>\nSo far, nobody seems to know what to do.<br \/>\nWhich can&#8217;t be the case:<br \/>\nthis isn&#8217;t the first sinkhole in Lowndes County.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re helping get the word out to help find whoever does know more about<br \/>\nsinkholes and what resources are available to deal with them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s not only straight down and under the carport concrete.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a title=\"Far under the concrete\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7889681086\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b50b970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b50b970c-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Far under the concrete\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Sideways\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7889680690\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b50e970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b50e970c-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Sideways\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7889898020\/in\/set-72157631310277262\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8037\/7889898020_bfd7f04aa4_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s also<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/dCdx0_NwOu8\"><br \/>\nspongy towards the house.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dCdx0_NwOu8\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<small><br \/>\nPictures and videos by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman<br \/>\n<br \/>\nfor Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 August 2012.<br \/>\n<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a title=\"Michael McCormick and Gretchen Quarterman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/7889681796\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b513970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b01761781b513970c-pi.jpg\"  alt=\"Michael McCormick and Gretchen Quarterman\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not just in the garage, either.<br \/>\nMore tomorrow on the yard, and the shed, and what VSU said.<br \/>\nAnd what about that new well nearby?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what the County Planner calls &#8220;central Lowndes County&#8221; there&#8217;s a sinkhole in a garage, deeper than a hoe handle. Michael McCormick called me up yesterday and told me about this sinkhole in his garage at 4326 Norman Hall Road. Naturally he&#8217;s a bit concerned about this problem. He thinks his insurance may cover it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,88,21,22,73,6114,55],"tags":[1772,1334,8706,8701,10,548,8702,12,7,8734,207,1773,8711,8712,8731,208,6,8727],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-planning","category-politics","category-safety","category-sinkhole-2","category-water","tag-28-august-2012","tag-cat-creek-road","tag-environment","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-michael-mccormick","tag-norman-hall-road","tag-planning","tag-politics","tag-safety","tag-sinkhole","tag-valdosta","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}