The Observation Deck

Around 5:45pm I got a message from Lisa Arndt, who not only gets a tip of the LO Hat,
but is also eligible for best news tip of the week, which could win her a glow-in-the-dark
Lakewood Observer Shirt!

"Sink hole on 2040 Morrison" so I got in the car and ran over there, and let me tell you, it
was pretty wild. I mean for sinkholes, in Lakewood, which we do have a history of.


The opening was only a couple feet with stress cracks around the mouth of the hole.


But looking in the hole you could see the running water that was cutting away large
sections of the road underneath.


About 6' deep, it would have easily grabbed a car, had the tire hit the hole, the edge would
have given away...


The car would have fallen about 6' into 2' deep fast running cold water.

Now we take you inside. Shortly before the police arrived I had a person grab my feet as I lowered my iphone in for a look under the street!


As you can see the hole is about 8'-10' wide, and that would have easily eaten a car, or
publisher, as the police reminded me as they pulled up.

Here is an artist's conception of what could have happened had the hole remained unchecked for years...


Thank you Craig Lovejoy at Low Level Aerial Photography for the image.

Lucky for us, Lakewood City work crews have covered it up!

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Man, that is traffic calming at its best.

Whew, that was a close one. The problem has been solved and Lakewood being eaten by a massive sinkhole
has been stopped using the same technology that God himself uses for the formation of the earth.

Plate tectonics

As explained by Wikipedia...


"Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the Greek: τεκτονικός "pertaining to building")[1] is a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motion of Earth's lithosphere. This theoretical model builds on the concept of continental drift which was developed during the first few decades of the 20th century. The geoscientific community accepted the theory after the concepts of seafloor spreading were later developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s."

Or as Lakewood used it to stop the ever widening sinkhole...



Whew, I thought they were just going to fix it and fill it in. This new method takes into account continent drift, and should be good for millions of years
or until the sink hole grows larger which ever happens first.

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