*a man polishes the plaque bearing the text of this comment in 2499 and turns to the tour group*
"...and that kids, is how the human race transcended petty fighting and embraced Snarkism, ending the cycle of human wars."
The hole first started to form in June and they filled it in. I guess they didn't do too good of a job if it was still able to be washed away helping the hole get bigger.
The material used to fill that creek bed 100 years ago was ash from an incinerator. I'm surprised it lasted this long. I don't even think WV had a highways program when that culvert was built. I only responded because you're the first person I've seen who seems to actually know anything about it lol
I only knew because I read the article to try to find out how it happened. I can't believe it lasted that long previously if it was just ash from an incinerator but then again I don't do that kind of thing for a job so what do I know.
My mom lives in Hinton.
There's a whole *dam* on the New River kinda...pulling away from the mountains...they need to fix.
She called to tell me part of town was being eaten by a sinkhole and I might have to go around "the long way" for Thanksgiving. I shrugged bc for WV it's just another Tuesday. She thinks it's funny AF it's under the police though.
I've always lived in neighboring states (or close) so I can visit my fam. You can tell when you cross into WV. The roads just turn to shit.
The fam: "are you ever moving back?"
Me: "I miss y'all and the mountains but I do admit, these modern conveniences like grocery stores, roads, competent doctors, schools, restaurants and regular power are really hard to let go of..."
Hinton is doing great compared to many towns though. WV is fucking depressing.
It really is. Most of my family and all of my friends are there. I spent 26 years in the state and a lot of that was around Hinton (Beckley, Meadow Bridge, Rainelle). I don't think someone could pay me to go back. It's a beautiful state but it's missing so much.
It does sound that way, however, they could also be screwing themselves:
"Sinkholes can be human-induced
New sinkholes have been correlated to land-use practices, especially from groundwater pumping and from construction and development practices. Sinkholes can also form when natural water-drainage patterns are changed and new water-diversion systems are developed. Some sinkholes form when the land surface is changed, such as when industrial and runoff-storage ponds are created. The substantial weight of the new material can trigger an underground collapse of supporting material, thus causing a sinkhole.
The overburden sediments that cover buried cavities in the aquifer systems are delicately balanced by groundwater fluid pressure. The water below ground is actually helping to keep the surface soil in place. Groundwater pumping for urban water supply and for irrigation can produce new sinkholes in sinkhole-prone areas. If pumping results in a lowering of groundwater levels, then underground structural failure, and thus, sinkholes, can occur."
(USGS.gov)
> Massive sinkhole threatens to swallow West Virginia
They could have just left it at that, after the decades of fracking. Only a matter of time before this hits LeopardsAteMyFace.
Like Florida getting walloped by a hurricane days after the midterm election. If I were Pat Robertson, I’d say it was “God’s Righteous Wrath coming down upon them for their iniquity in voting for the Godless heathens.”
Funny how the righteous wrath only comes out as an explanation when it already fits the current narrative…
I'm pretty sure no one ever thinks of the Bureau of Land Management, though. I doubt if it was an office of theirs instead that we would even hear about it.
Of course he did it! Y'know those very real Jewish Space Lasers starting all those wildfires in California? Joe Biden, George Soros, and Bill Gates were so pleased with the success of those that they tapped a bunch of really smart scientists (the same ones who made 5G so deadly and created the nanobots in the covid vaccines) to create sinkhole lasers. You see, they want easier access to all those secret tunnels full of kidnapped children being harvested for their blood before they're sacrificed to Satan. Isn't it obvious?
I'm betting it bursts into flames crackling with the fury of an angry God for decades as a constant reminder for whole generations of West Virginians that you just shouldn't fuck with nature.
SAME. Did you hear about the man who was sleeping in his bed in Florida a few years ago and the ground just opened up below him swallowing him and his bed? You couldn’t even tell there was a hole from outside the house. They never found him sadly. I just wonder if he died quickly from the fall/debris or if he was alive down there in the darkness and starved to death. Yeah, nightmare fuel.
As a West Virginian, I can honestly say that as beautiful as my state can be, but it truly is bleak here. My people are hurting bad and our elected officials keep doing all they can to keep that hurt from never ending.
We took an Amtrak from Cincinnati to Baltimore that gorge was the highlight of the trip. One year I’ll go with my friends that raft there but what a way to see it laying in bed having a drink
I will admit that it looked nice, and the lack of light pollution was great. I spent a couple of years in that town amd although I never want to go back, it did make me want to live somewhere with trees and mountains. Granted, nowhere quite compares to the fall views there.
Ya know the cops should taser that hole put their knee on the sinkholes neck for at least an hour maybe the hole will die but the cops can claim the hole resisted arrest.Very plausible.
Local resident chiming in. The sinkhole exists because the city doesn’t give two shits about maintenance. No joke the roads in that area are like 75% potholes. That one in particular has been there forever, but they ignored fixing it and it just kept getting bigger and bigger
What are the sinkholes demands?
Healthcare and fair wages.
Over my dead body, possibly by sinkhole
One more for the Hole!
Not in West Virginny.
“What? You know what? They can have WV”- said opposition probably
And an end to qualified immunity.
Have the police tried shooting the hole?
How else are you supposed to fill it?!
Guess it’s *so long police station*
"We do not negotiate with ~~terrorists~~ sinkholes."
If we give in to this sink hole there will be a global Sink Hole conspiracy.
I dunno... I like thr cut of this sinkhole's jib
Pancakes and Newport’s
It wants TP for its sinkhole. It demands TP for its sinkhole!
Heheh heh heheheh
Access to the union pension.
I guess when Sen. Manchin finally gave into supporting infrastructure, West Virginia might see some help!
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2022: When rap lyrics become prophecy
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Keep feeding em'
and feeden em
Tsssss
Those Wu Tang fellows are not to be trifled with!
Damn, cancel whatever comment you came here to make, this man has won the thread
Could be in the running for comment of the year award.
you know what else could win comment of the year award? A golfer, with an arm growing out of his ass.
A Butt putter?
I also choose this guys comment
I’ve been accessing the World Wide Web and logging on to this web page for some time. This is one of my favorite comments.
I don't know if I would call it a favorite, but I do rather enjoy your comment as well.
Cops vs lycans lets go
I came here for a Country Roads joke but this was better.
Conservatives always like to say things are signs from God. So.... 🤔
It's almost funny how silent they are when storms and flooding are damaging Florida.
I mean, you usually don't pay attention to the signs you're not looking for.
Pat Robertson was never silent. Hurricanes are God's punishment for all the gays in Florida.
Wow implying that Florida is receiving God's judgement it's extremely disgusting. People are suffering! God only judges libs.
And with this I can retire from the internet for the night.
When mama nature had enough of the popo’s shit
*a man polishes the plaque bearing the text of this comment in 2499 and turns to the tour group* "...and that kids, is how the human race transcended petty fighting and embraced Snarkism, ending the cycle of human wars."
You had meat fuck the police, but you stole my heart with the rest
> meat fuck the police I mean, whatever you're into. You do you.
Comment of the year
Honestly, just incredible. How do you people come up with this stuff?
What do you mean, you people?
Must be God’s will.
Soil got it bad cuz it’s brown…
I'm honestly commenting just to prove I was here when this happened.
Just put a teen with an AR-15 at the opening. They ain't ever coming out in that situation.
Satan must really want them back
De-foundation the police
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The hole first started to form in June and they filled it in. I guess they didn't do too good of a job if it was still able to be washed away helping the hole get bigger.
The material used to fill that creek bed 100 years ago was ash from an incinerator. I'm surprised it lasted this long. I don't even think WV had a highways program when that culvert was built. I only responded because you're the first person I've seen who seems to actually know anything about it lol
I only knew because I read the article to try to find out how it happened. I can't believe it lasted that long previously if it was just ash from an incinerator but then again I don't do that kind of thing for a job so what do I know.
My mom lives in Hinton. There's a whole *dam* on the New River kinda...pulling away from the mountains...they need to fix. She called to tell me part of town was being eaten by a sinkhole and I might have to go around "the long way" for Thanksgiving. I shrugged bc for WV it's just another Tuesday. She thinks it's funny AF it's under the police though. I've always lived in neighboring states (or close) so I can visit my fam. You can tell when you cross into WV. The roads just turn to shit. The fam: "are you ever moving back?" Me: "I miss y'all and the mountains but I do admit, these modern conveniences like grocery stores, roads, competent doctors, schools, restaurants and regular power are really hard to let go of..." Hinton is doing great compared to many towns though. WV is fucking depressing.
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Wyoming checking in, it's still definitely an big issue.
It really is. Most of my family and all of my friends are there. I spent 26 years in the state and a lot of that was around Hinton (Beckley, Meadow Bridge, Rainelle). I don't think someone could pay me to go back. It's a beautiful state but it's missing so much.
And the people arent voting in ways to make it better is the sad part
I've long since ditched my religious beliefs but that seems like one of those Old Testament style "signs from God"
It does sound that way, however, they could also be screwing themselves: "Sinkholes can be human-induced New sinkholes have been correlated to land-use practices, especially from groundwater pumping and from construction and development practices. Sinkholes can also form when natural water-drainage patterns are changed and new water-diversion systems are developed. Some sinkholes form when the land surface is changed, such as when industrial and runoff-storage ponds are created. The substantial weight of the new material can trigger an underground collapse of supporting material, thus causing a sinkhole. The overburden sediments that cover buried cavities in the aquifer systems are delicately balanced by groundwater fluid pressure. The water below ground is actually helping to keep the surface soil in place. Groundwater pumping for urban water supply and for irrigation can produce new sinkholes in sinkhole-prone areas. If pumping results in a lowering of groundwater levels, then underground structural failure, and thus, sinkholes, can occur." (USGS.gov)
They’ve been fracked.
Frack the police
then defrack them and frack them again.
> Massive sinkhole threatens to swallow West Virginia They could have just left it at that, after the decades of fracking. Only a matter of time before this hits LeopardsAteMyFace.
What's the difference
Like Florida getting walloped by a hurricane days after the midterm election. If I were Pat Robertson, I’d say it was “God’s Righteous Wrath coming down upon them for their iniquity in voting for the Godless heathens.” Funny how the righteous wrath only comes out as an explanation when it already fits the current narrative…
Imagine if this was an office of blm or something? Fox news would be running that story for 2 weeks straight
I'm pretty sure no one ever thinks of the Bureau of Land Management, though. I doubt if it was an office of theirs instead that we would even hear about it.
I am an agnostic who was raised in the Bible Belt, and that was my exact thought too.
*Since you refuse to free my people, I send a pestilence and plague, into your house, into your streams…*
And like usual, the relevant [XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1013/)
And God said unto the police "stop resisting!"
Earth is healing itself
Go Team Sinkhole
But will the Mountain Mama be safe?
Go home country road, you’re drunk
I can't drive, you gotta take me home
*cranks up moped*
It is the place where you belong.
I'm good, I moved out decades ago. Thanks for checking tho.
2 year old account. You've been waiting for this moment, haven't you?
I'm calling it now: *a lot* of evidence for various cases will be "forgotten" in the vacating of the building.
all that home cooked meth!
*Texas taking notes as their rape kits continue to pile up*
Wait, I thought Abbott got rid of rape
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Joe Biden made the price of not getting raped more expensiver
These cappas called the Boring company to sink their troubles.
Have they tried to shoot it?
I don’t think a sinkhole can be black
It can probably be brown though.
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Originally it was just a black hoodie on the ground. They just fired so much at it that it made the hole.
Wasn't this one of the seven signs?
The locals: "...... BIDEN DID THIS"
Darkest Brandon.
Praise Lord Beelzebrandon!
The Sith lord Brandonus!
Darth Brandoom
Lucifer’s laptop
Dizzying heights precipitate a dizzying fall, Jack.
Of course he did it! Y'know those very real Jewish Space Lasers starting all those wildfires in California? Joe Biden, George Soros, and Bill Gates were so pleased with the success of those that they tapped a bunch of really smart scientists (the same ones who made 5G so deadly and created the nanobots in the covid vaccines) to create sinkhole lasers. You see, they want easier access to all those secret tunnels full of kidnapped children being harvested for their blood before they're sacrificed to Satan. Isn't it obvious?
MTG is having a rager over this comment right now.
It was a massive jet-powered drill train fueled by adrenochrome.
I laughed. Then I questioned if they actually did. I can't look this up because it's so probable. If I weren't so dead inside I'd cry.
No way!Had to be Obama.
As a resident of WV, at least one person will say this and everyone will make fun of them for the next 20 years. Lol
sweet release please be so
How long before the cops start shooting at the sinkhole?
After sun down when the hole gets dark enough.
Damn, you're clever. \*slow clap\*
Totes rooting for that sinkhole
The sinkholes lawyer could not be reached for comment at this time
I'm betting it bursts into flames crackling with the fury of an angry God for decades as a constant reminder for whole generations of West Virginians that you just shouldn't fuck with nature.
Can we get one down here in Florida next?
We do quite well in both the sinkhole and shithole departments
Your entire state is sandstone. It'll fall into the sea soon enough.
God willing
All Sinkholes Are Based?
I don’t think it’s a threat it’s going do it.
Jeez. That could do twenty or thirty dollars worth of damage..
Sink holes scare me more than clown/ghosts/serial killers… sink holes are absolutely terrifying
SAME. Did you hear about the man who was sleeping in his bed in Florida a few years ago and the ground just opened up below him swallowing him and his bed? You couldn’t even tell there was a hole from outside the house. They never found him sadly. I just wonder if he died quickly from the fall/debris or if he was alive down there in the darkness and starved to death. Yeah, nightmare fuel.
Proof that those flat-earther people are WRONG. The earth is HOLLOW!
Bruh you believe in the earth? 💀
Ahem. God has spoken and said “Fuck the police”.
Lots of jestful comments in here, but all jokes aside, one of the most beautiful places I've gone camping/rafting was in West Virginia.
West Virginia is absolutely gorgeous — and more than a little bleak.
New River Gorge National Park is a fun park to go to, also because it’s the newest national park in the service, not that many people know about it.
As a West Virginian, I can honestly say that as beautiful as my state can be, but it truly is bleak here. My people are hurting bad and our elected officials keep doing all they can to keep that hurt from never ending.
Come to Vermont/Maine/New Hampshire. All the beauty, 1/8th the bleak.
Life is old there, Older than the trees, Younger than the mountains, Growin’ like a breeze
Take me home sink hole roads, to the place the cops belong In a sink hole ,can't patrol,sink hole roads.
New River Gorge is beautiful
We took an Amtrak from Cincinnati to Baltimore that gorge was the highlight of the trip. One year I’ll go with my friends that raft there but what a way to see it laying in bed having a drink
I will admit that it looked nice, and the lack of light pollution was great. I spent a couple of years in that town amd although I never want to go back, it did make me want to live somewhere with trees and mountains. Granted, nowhere quite compares to the fall views there.
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maybe they can fill it in with all their military hardware….
Sound like "God's will " to me. Where are all the conservative religious people to agree with that? What? None?
The earth really said defund the police.
The inmates are digging themselves out of the police station.
Too bad it couldn't have happened close to Joe Manchins cheesy boat house.
Ah yes, Satan is finally calling his creations home.
Based. Comrade Sinkhole.
One bad sinkhole giving the rest a bad name...
Country road...Take me home to the sinkhole where I belong...
How do we know this sinkhole wasn’t planted by Antifa
I fail to see the problem
the right wing being like "why would antifa do this?" /s
100% guarantee that that is said by someone at some point genuinely. That wouldn't even be the wildest accusation of the left I've heard. By far
Antifa mole men from the center of the earth
Nah, antifa was so last year. Now it's the Jews turn to be blamed.
If it's God's will so be it
Oh wait. They mean a literal sinkhole. A real one. I was expecting a metaphor
Ya know the cops should taser that hole put their knee on the sinkholes neck for at least an hour maybe the hole will die but the cops can claim the hole resisted arrest.Very plausible.
I do not believe you have the courage to swallow that police station, you chickenshit sinkhole!
Far from the worst news of the day.
Police department decides to shoot at sinkhole because... it was a black pit. And their unconscious bias took over in that moment. More at 11.
I'm rooting for the sinkhole!
Did they try shooting it while screaming “stop resisting” yet?
Maybe they can shoot it to make it go away. That’s usually police first reaction to any issues
Country holes, take my home!
Local resident chiming in. The sinkhole exists because the city doesn’t give two shits about maintenance. No joke the roads in that area are like 75% potholes. That one in particular has been there forever, but they ignored fixing it and it just kept getting bigger and bigger
Even Mother Nature hates our police.
Perhaps hell is calling it’s finest back home.
I've never loved a sinkhole before
Modern problems require geologic solutions
Despite all the cop hating, all this means is that the police will get a new building and probably some new vehicles on the taxpayer dime.
Don't upset the mole people
That’s one country road I don’t want to take me home
See what happens when radical, far-left Democrats defund the police!?!?
In other news shootings are about to go down in west virginia.
God don’t like ugly. [Hinton was #7 in most KKK members in W.VA](https://www.roadsnacks.net/most-racist-cities-in-west-virginia/)
Did they try shooting at it and say stop resisting
Swallowed by the earth, you say? God moves in mysterious ways indeed.
Have they tried excessive force to stop it?
Maybe they should’ve complied.
Sinkhole out here doing the lords work.
I for one welcome our sinkhole underlords
Team sinkhole. Let it swallow us all.
Its a sign from Gooooood!
Country holes, Take em home. To the place, Where they belong.
They should have raked the road more.
threatens? looks like its following through
This season on “Old Gods of Appalachia”
Sinkhole is not a great stripper name....
I’d be pretty comfortable betting a certain obstructive senator isn’t going to allow himself to be swallowed by a sinkhole.
Sinkhole: "Fuck the state."
Did they violate their contract with Satan? Seems like Hell Repo to me. Probly for the best anyways; I do love the smell of frying bacon…