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08-02-2016, 12:37 PM
Sinkhole eats up Australian backyard, causing all kinds of **pe
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Imagine waking up, hoping to do a spot of gardening in the backyard, only to find a massive hole is eating it up.
A sinkhole has opened up in a backyard in Ipswich, a suburb of Queensland, Australia. It was discovered on Tuesday morning by the next door neighbours of Lynn and Ray McKay, who alerted them to the gradually-opening hell mouth on the McKay's property.
"I come out and I've got a hole in the ground, it was only a little one, a metre, and it's just got bigger since," Ray McKay told ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/ipswich-sinkhole-swallows-backyard-west-of-brisbane/7682332). The hole has since opened up to eight metres wide.*
According to the news outlet, the Department of Mines have been alerted due to a former mine shaft being located in the area, but it'll be a few more days until authorities can figure out what exactly is going on. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/02/sinkhole-australian-backyard/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Imagine waking up, hoping to do a spot of gardening in the backyard, only to find a massive hole is eating it up.
A sinkhole has opened up in a backyard in Ipswich, a suburb of Queensland, Australia. It was discovered on Tuesday morning by the next door neighbours of Lynn and Ray McKay, who alerted them to the gradually-opening hell mouth on the McKay's property.
"I come out and I've got a hole in the ground, it was only a little one, a metre, and it's just got bigger since," Ray McKay told ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/ipswich-sinkhole-swallows-backyard-west-of-brisbane/7682332). The hole has since opened up to eight metres wide.*
According to the news outlet, the Department of Mines have been alerted due to a former mine shaft being located in the area, but it'll be a few more days until authorities can figure out what exactly is going on. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/02/sinkhole-australian-backyard/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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