Florida’s Costly “Sinkhole Alley”
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Source:
NBC Nightly News
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Creator:
Lester Holt/Kerry
Sanders
08/13/2013
08/13/2013
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Video News Feed [Gov't
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NBCUniversal Media,
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2013
00:02:09
Description
Florida's geography makes it susceptible to sinkholes, and with more than 19,000 documented cases, some
homeowners are literally living on top of the unpredictable phenomenon.
Keywords
Sinkhole, Florida, Ground, Soil, Surface, Earth, Homes, Insurance, Housing, Community, Neighborhood,
Homeowners, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Foundation, Documentation, Geology
Citation
MLA
"Florida’s Costly “Sinkhole Alley”." Kerry Sanders, correspondent. NBC Nightly News. NBCUniversal
Media. 13 Aug. 2013. NBC Learn. Web. 9 January 2016
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APA
Sanders, K. (Reporter), & Holt, L. (Anchor). 2013, August 13. Florida’s Costly “Sinkhole Alley”.
[Television series episode]. NBC Nightly News. Retrieved from
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"Florida’s Costly “Sinkhole Alley”" NBC Nightly News, New York, NY: NBC Universal, 08/13/2013.
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Transcript
Florida’s Costly “Sinkhole Alley”
LESTER HOLT, anchor:
People are still talking about the story that began our newscast last night that giant sinkhole that
swallowed a resort in Florida near Disney World in the middle of the night. Turns out thousands of
Americans live on top of sinkholes or potential sinkholes, some of them unaware of the danger down
below. That’s where our Kerry Sanders goes tonight.
KERRY SANDERS reporting:
Today a little good news, the sinkhole that swallowed a three-story condominium hotel has not grown any
larger. Engineers examined the hundred-foot wide hole and say there’s no reason to believe it will expand.
Sinkholes are not unusual in Florida. There are more than nineteen thousand documented in the Sunshine
State, most are in Central Florida.
SUZANNE ERLICH: One of the larger cracks-SANDERS: Suzanne Erlich is living on top of one of those nightmares. Crews worked today to shore up
the foundation of her Trinity, Florida, home, after cracks in the floor revealed she’s living on a developing
sinkhole.
EHRLICH: Is some shift going to occur in the house that I don’t know about? So it’s still-- it’s still a
panic mode I think until we get it completely done.
SANDERS: Sinkhole insurance claims have nearly tripled over a four-year period and premiums have
skyrocketed. Some fear it will damage the recovering housing market here.
DIANA OLICK (CNBC): Sinkholes you just can’t predict. And the more we see of these in this area. The
more investors may say maybe this is just not the place for me to put my money.
SANDERS: Most sinkholes here in Central Florida wind up filling up with water and becoming lakes.
This is one of the rare dry sinkholes in Apopka, Florida. It opened fifteen years ago. And a hiker was
coming by and says he literally saw a tree disappear. And over the next four days it continued to grow.
Sinkholes occur in almost every state. The U.S. Geological Survey says the hotspots in addition to Florida
include Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. For those living in Florida
sinkhole alley, it’s turning into a costly and unsettling way of life. Kerry Sanders, NBC News, Clermont,
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Florida.
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