See Daisetta before it vanishes

A sinkhole started two days ago in tiny Daisetta, Tx, halfway between Houston and Beaumont (map). By this morning it had swallowed an area the size of about a city block -- and the whole town is only about ten blocks wide and long, judging from the map. Now why doesn't that happen to the Houston suburb where I went to high school?

Quoth the mayor:

It's unreal -- the earth just wallered up.

But the best quote was from a Houston Chronicle story: locals are referring to the maw as "Sinkhole de Mayo."

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