Part of the house an elderly couple from Orlando, Florida was literally swallowed by a huge sinkhole measuring about 8 meters wide and with a depth of 4.5 meters.
Along with the walls, the bowels of the earth absorbs almost 50 years of life and memories of the spouses.
The ground took wedding rings, furniture and equipment, reports USA Today with reference to the Orlando Sentinel.
The fact that something is wrong, the couple realized at 8 PM on Monday. 71-year-old Harry Miller told the local media that the walls of his home, where he raised two daughters, began to crumble when he and his wife, Ellen, was lying in the evening in bed.
«We watched all night: the pit became larger and deeper, and finally at 4 a.m. I saw a huge, deep cracks in the bathroom» — said Ellen. «Beginning to sink tub, window fell out, and then I realized:»it’s Time to get out of here». On Tuesday, about 9 am, the house finally collapsed.
Fortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Miller was not injured, but the house sustained serious damage.
As told by the hostess Ellen Miller, to rebuild the building they don’t plan to.
The official cause of the accident has not yet named, but authorities suggest that the sinkhole could contribute a lot to flooding, which brought hurricane Irma little more than a week ago.
