There’s a growing problem right outside my door.
I first noticed the sinkhole in late 2013. The first one started out tiny, about the diameter of a fist. As months went by it morphed into a huge hole, so my apartment management put up stakes with caution tape around it.
The sinkhole doesn’t care about caution tape. It swallowed up the wooden stakes and the yellow tape, and another hole opened up right next to it. The management’s response was just to put up more caution tape.
When the hole was small, I really didn’t worry about it. Now that there are two huge holes that I can see from my window, I’m starting to get really scared. I have no idea how big the holes can get, and I wonder how dangerous they are. I’m not worried just for myself, but for the safety of my dogs. I don’t want to be taking them out to potty one day and suddenly be miles underground, or to come home to find the apartment unit and the dogs missing. I don’t know if that’s how sinkholes really work, but the idea terrifies me.
My fiancé has notified the property manager, but she didn’t seem to be concerned. She told him that there’s no one in town who can inspect the sinkholes and they’re having to communicate with corporate to send someone out here. That sounds fine unless you’re the one with giant holes right outside your front door. We’re going to have to contact her again and be more insistent. I don’t feel safe, and I don’t want to find out what might happen if we just ignore the issue.
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