Giant sinkhole eatting cars at the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green! {MEGA MERGER}
02-12-2014, 04:58 PM
#61
Lifetime Supporting Gold
I'm from Louisville and what some folks may not realize is that whole area around Bowling Green is home to the largest cave system in the world; including Mammouth Cave, Horse Cave etc. Let's hope they didn't build the museum atop part of some massive cave system. Yikes!
02-12-2014, 05:00 PM
#62
Burning Brakes
The museum, the assembly plant and the new motorsports facility.
It also makes me look in the mirror. My neighborhood was built over an old stream. This could just as easily happened to my house. That's a good feeling to know...
Now, umm, I can't resist...are those 8 'Vettes insured through NCM?
02-12-2014, 05:02 PM
#63
That's just hard to look at.
02-12-2014, 05:05 PM
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The museum, the assembly plant and the new motorsports facility.
It also makes me look in the mirror. My neighborhood was built over an old stream. This could just as easily happened to my house. That's a good feeling to know...
Now, umm, I can't resist...are those 8 'Vettes insured through NCM?
It also makes me look in the mirror. My neighborhood was built over an old stream. This could just as easily happened to my house. That's a good feeling to know...
Now, umm, I can't resist...are those 8 'Vettes insured through NCM?
02-12-2014, 05:21 PM
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Environmental Geologist: What the Sinkhole Might Mean for the National Corvette Museu
Mods: please feel free to merge this, but I thought the opinion of someone with degrees in Hydrology and Environmental Geology might warrant its own thread.
Full article on the Corvette Forum Blog.
Full article on the Corvette Forum Blog.
02-12-2014, 05:34 PM
#71
Racer
Video of the collapse
Just posted on www.autoblog.com from their security cameras at NCM is the actual collapse of the floor in sections. Sad.
02-12-2014, 05:35 PM
#73
Racer
02-12-2014, 05:43 PM
#74
Le Mans Master
I don't understand the big deal. Those were all pre-C7's. They were obsolete, they were so "yesterday". Anyone who cares about them is simply living in the past, plus, several of those models even had round tail lights.
02-12-2014, 05:49 PM
#76
Melting Slicks
Unbelievable, these classic rare Vettes look like toys at the bottom of a hole, I hope the majority are repairable!
02-12-2014, 05:53 PM
#77
I am glad nobody was hurt! A shame for the lost cars.
02-12-2014, 05:55 PM
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Obsolete?
02-12-2014, 06:01 PM
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Le Mans Master
If you look at one of the helicopter video's.After the hovering under the pipe,then it pans out of the hole.Look to the right a huge open area with no dirt.I'm not scientist but i would bet that was one of those caves?Or a utility culvert that the roof broke under load?Once their is a void it will just weaken and travel.Ain't much holding that red tower up?Great video's.