The Corvette museum was hungry

jstein77 wrote: What a shame; those were some nice cars. There has to be some concern about the structure of the building, doesn't there?

Is that a hole in your floor or are you just happy to see me?

I remember loving the black 62 the last time I was there. I have a certain special spot for those. Such a waste..... but there may be a couple drivetrain donors there. Is it too soon to call "Dibs"?

Flight Service wrote:

jstein77 wrote: What a shame; those were some nice cars. There has to be some concern about the structure of the building, doesn't there?

Is that a hole in your floor or are you just happy to see me?

It's a hole next to the large, rigid red pole. Giggity.

Even the floor didn't like c4 vettes sitting on it.

Seems like a small area to have 8 cars hmm...

Short video of aftermath

In reply to Matthew Huizing:

The blue devil and the 62 look savable.

From the video, that looks like a pretty substantial sinkhole. The collapse may have been sudden, but, barring a water main break or something similar, that erosion has been going on for a while.

This video is amazing:

http://youtu.be/IukDWhf7U9I

I wonder what they would sell the drivetrains for ? and take some seats aand tires

Damn---- that's one Hell of a hole! (if I had a nickel for every time I've said that.....)

The good thing is--- they are cars, they are repairable. When the museum reopens it will just make for a more interesting story. As long as they have the vin#s they can rebuild the cars.

It's a shame that the car from Corvette Summer wasn't on display there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5FG9_mGWPo

In reply to Powar:

Bobzilla wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5FG9_mGWPo

I was just about to post that vid. It really shows how big that damn hole is, and I don't even see 8 cars in there

Flight Service wrote:

jstein77 wrote: What a shame; those were some nice cars. There has to be some concern about the structure of the building, doesn't there?

Is that a hole in your floor or are you just happy to see me?

If you're havin' floor problems I feel bad for ya son.
I got 99 problems but a 'Vette ain't one.

I bet Gas Monkey Garage has already made an offer on this lot of cars...

Someone on my Facebook feed was saying it was a foundation compaction issue and he guaranteed it because he was a structural engineer. As a geologist, I gotta say, cave. Cave that was a cave and had a cave in and is now a hole. Get some spelunkers in there.

In reply to mazdeuce:

I'd think proper foundation compaction would have uncovered said hole before it has a bunch of concrete and cars on it.

How about I give you the Civil Engineering version from my old TSPE chapter.

The drought that effected the Tennessee Valley area a few years ago cause the water tables to drop. This caused the smaller particles suspended in silt, sand, mud, natures glue as you will to be dried. As we know when mud dries it contracts. This material, when the rains finally came back, got washed away. Then the small stuff got washed away. Then the medium stuff got moved around and settled. Then nothing held up the big stuff, then it all collapses in on itself.

It has been happening all over that part of the country.

that's me, I'm 6'5" and there was a deeper part behind me, down another 4' to 6'.

Sinkhole Footage - Helicopter Shots

Stabilize it, put a nice railing around it and leave it there as a post apocalypse display.

Short of driving piles into the hole, how is driving a sheepsfoot roller back and forth over the area a billion times going to do anything about that? Now, I could get behind a poor site study before hand, but I'd be shocked if anyone could link that to the construction phase of the building.

They look for the throat, which you can see in the helicopter footage and shoot if full of boulders and concrete (hybrid method), then fill dirt and rebuild from there.

I would guarantee it wasn't there before.