Monday 17 February 2014

Sink holes go mainstream

The Daily Mail has done a round up of some recent sinkhole stories, with the following splendid headline-cum-opening paragraph:

Terrifying holes that are opening up all over Britain: They're appearing at FIVE TIMES their normal rate and further bad weather could mean we haven't seen the last of them

2 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, good idea. That might be slightly less disastrous that what we are doing at present.

Graeme said...

a wild thought...we are now forced to install condensing boilers in our homes. These boilers discharge a small but steady quantity of acidic condensate every day they are used. This condensate is sent into a soakaway beside private properties. I live on a chalk hillside. In 100 years or so, the condensate will no doubt have formed a potential sinkhole.

We use condensing boilers because John Prescott thought they would avert climate change. Thus climate change causes sinkholes!