At least 15 cars were swallowed one by one by a giant sinkhole in International House of Pancakes (IHoP) parking lot in Meridian, Mississippi, on November 7 – just a week after the restaurant opened for business.
A car teetering on the edge of the sinkhole. Pieces of pavement are still falling. pic.twitter.com/8FZSQNPjIZ
— Aaron Morrison (@Morrison_wx) November 8, 2015
Large sinkhole swallows more than a dozen cars at Mississippi IHOP parking lot. https://t.co/hI4ZF6JCCg pic.twitter.com/n31EP6xY3J — CNN (@CNN) November 9, 2015
“The sinkhole is huge. If you imagine a football field cut in half, it is every bit of 50 feet wide and about 100 – 125 feet wide. We are talking 14 to 15 vehicles. It is very scary. We are so fortunate that no injuries were sustained. We are gonna keep it under observation until we know that it is clear and safe,” Patrol Lt. Rita Jack with Meridian Police told NBC adding that what caused the sinkhole is still unknown and is being investigated.
Large sinkhole in Meridian has engulfed numerous cars at the newly built IHOP, no word on what caused it. pic.twitter.com/XSAeSA8Ihy
— Aaron Morrison (@Morrison_wx) November 8, 2015
Officials don’t know what caused the sinkhole, but news station WTOK noted the town received 3 inches of rain over the weekend and nearly 10 inches over the past two weeks.
.@WJTV here is a better picture of the IHOP SINKHOLE pic.twitter.com/nX2KWVp5V9 — Ummm Guess (@I_be_Gabe) November 8, 2015
Here’s another picture. pic.twitter.com/eDYVmxwcZg
— k. (@_JeneneSmith) November 8, 2015
Witnesses at the scene reported hearing a series of booms before the power went out and sinkhole opened up during dinner service at the IHoP restaurant around 7.15 pm. At first the frightened customers thought that it was an earthquake, but when they went outside they saw their cars down in a 15-meter-wide, nearly 180-meter-long hole.
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