<VV> Corvette Museum floor collapse

[Lon Anderson]

Jim,
I agree... I'd hate to be the geotech firm that did the analysis on that land.
I had overheard a story about a "sagging floor" in a Meijer grocery in Louisville that is built on top of one of the old quarrys, and they have caves/tunnels/mine shafts that you can see from the Snyder Freeway in the winter when the trees are bare.
Yeah, I know all about "sink holes", having grown up on a farm 20 miles south of Louisville and being told not to be going down in them when I was a kid...
The photos of the museum are hard to look at... and I AM thankful it happened at night, and NOT when there were school kids there...
Lonzo


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Davis <jld at wk.net>
To: virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 2:19 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Corvette Museum floor collapse


That part of Kentucky (the Pennyrile) has limestone karst for bedrock.   
After all, Mammoth Cave National Park is near by.  Almost every farm in 
the area has at least one limestone cave on its property.  It is the 
limestone in the soil that makes Kentucky blue grass the ideal grazing 
food for thoroughbreds.   When you build above a cave you have to expect 
losses.
Jim Davis



  On 2/12/2014 12:34 PM, Brent Fullard wrote:
> I wonder whether this sink hole is the result of the construction of the 
Museum's race track, that is occurring right near by?
>
> http://www.corvetteforum.com/articles/heres-good-bad-new-corvette-racetrack/
>
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>> Hey guys,
>> Not sure if this had made the news in your areas, but the floor in the dome 
of the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY has collapsed due to a sink hole...
>> Here's the news link...
>> http://www.wave3.com/story/24702112/sinkhole-swallows-8-cars-at-national-corvette-museum-in-bowling-green
>> It says 8 cars were damaged...
>> At least it happened when the building was empty.
>> Still a shame.
>> Later,
>> Lonzo in Kaintuck, about 55 miles north east from there... right up I-65...
>> __


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