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[ArdWrknTrk]

They have been 'naturally formed' for eons, in limestone and marl and whatever it is you call the solid ground down there.

That doesn't exclude man's intervention from accelerating that process....

[Nothing Special]

salans7 wrote

They still haven't fixed the sinkholes. They said on the news that the sinkholes were naturally formed,....

So since they were naturally formed does that mean they're waiting for nature to fix them?

[salans7]

I'm sure they're scratching their heads trying to figure out how this could have happened because when they dug those holes they did the bestest job they could to fill them back in. The amount of surprise that people have when a sinkhole opens up here is astonishing. As Jim said, Florida is full of underground caverns. The fact that there's thousands of lakes in this area is proof of that, and yet people think the ground here is solid all the way to earth's core.

[Ray Cecil]

Isnt most of florida formed from a base of ancient coral reefs or something like that? I prefer my 500-800ft above sea level....although Kentucky does have the nations largest cave system....and the corvette museam recently had a sink hole problem...lol

[salans7]

Read an article the other day about sinkholes in a subdivision in South Dakota. They realized there was a large abandoned mine under the neighborhood.

There's a ton of mining that goes on here in Florida too.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Lots of phosphate strip mining.

Calcium phosphate is bone

[salans7]

Yep, there's alot of old limestone quarries not far from where I'm at as well. One of them was a spot I remember very well as we were out there offroading/partying every other weekend. Couple cliff-diving kids ruined it when they were injured. Place was chained up tight after that.

[ArdWrknTrk]

We used to have a place like that.
'The Sand Pits' where there were a lot of ponds with sandy bottoms and broken down, rusted out drag shovels.

We would go up there skinny dipping, dirt bike riding and have keggers all the time.

Until some BS went down with non-regulars lighting off dynamite in the ponds and dunes.
Ruined it for everyone.

[Danny G]

IDK if anyone else has seen this but from this angle the new Bronco looks like it has a 90's era front end coupled with a 60's era back end.

[Nothing Special]

To me it looks more like a '90s era Land Rover front end on a '60s era Scout back end.  (I'm not expecting to be tempted to get one)

[ArdWrknTrk]

Nor am I tempted, at all.

But it sure looks like they have the approach and departure angles down (or, up, as the case may be)

[Rembrant]

To me it looks like a Lada Niva. There were a bunch of them around up here at one time, but they rusted badly (and broken down often).

[1986F150Six]

I am reminded of a Yugo, Cory.

[Rembrant]

1986F150Six wrote

I am reminded of a Yugo, Cory.

Yup! We had a rash of this junk showing up in Canada back in the 1980's. Not sure if you got them in the US or not? I actually had one of the little Lada sedans very briefly when I turned 16. Some university kids were renting my Grandmother's place at the time, and when the school year was finished, one of them left this little Lada behind...lol. Same as the one in the pic below:



It was a 4spd and I used to tear around our property with it, learning how to drive (I guess?...lol).

We also had Skodas in the 80's as well, but only briefly.

The cars were trash and difficult to get parts for, etc. On top of that they rusted so fast you almost couldn't do anything with them at all...lol.

[Danny G]

jdavidsmi wrote

Sorry, Viola Tennessee. It’s about centered between Nashville and Chattanooga. 10 miles or so east of I24

Been through there a few times. I lived up 127 in Crossville.

[Danny G]

I have been waiting patiently for years for the Bronco to come back. And when the leaks started happening (not this one) if you took your finger and covered the front end of the picture forward of the wheel well it looked like a 4 door jeep. I cried a little on the inside. Lots of great hype and concept art that was better than what I saw. I am hoping for some kind of redemption.

[Danny G]

ArdWrknTrk wrote

Sorry to hear you're ailing.

I had an excruciating pain in my kidney a couple of months back.
Lots of contrast views and a full workup.
No positive results.
I got dosed with narcotics and turned out.

Took a couple of weeks before it didn't hurt.

 Culprit found I have... Had 9 kidney stones. I passed two. Two are blocking the ureter so I have to go in for surgery next week. 5+ more in the kidney.

[Gary Lewis]

TheScatch wrote

 Culprit found I have... Had 9 kidney stones. I passed two. Two are blocking the ureter so I have to go in for surgery next week. 5+ more in the kidney.

OUCH!  That has GOT to be painful!  Hope they get them out easily.

[ArdWrknTrk]

Oh my!
Sorry to hear that.

Hope everything goes well!

[Danny G]

Thanks everyone.... Sooo who has seen this..


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ford-put-a-760-hp-mustang-shelby-500-gt-engine-into-jay-lenos-68-bronco-and-its-glorious-061224922.html