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Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (1/13)
 2/12/14 1:23pm
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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (2/13)
 2/12/14 1:37pm
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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (3/13)
 2/12/14 1:40pm
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I would have thought that was the safest place in the country...Broken Heart
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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (4/13)
 2/12/14 2:13pm
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More pics, in USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/12/corvette-museum-sinkhole/5417171/



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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (5/13)
 2/12/14 2:43pm
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Wow I just read this in my email. Thank goodness no one was in there at the time. 

Sad that those cars and especially the milestone cars were casualties. Those can never be replaced unfortunately. Unhappy

I wonder if any of this was caught on the surveillance cameras? It would be interesting to see this unfold. 


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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (6/13)
 2/12/14 10:53pm
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Hey Sarge ,I saw this on the Silverado site,there is a link on there from the museum site showing them dropping into the HOLE

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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (7/13)
 2/13/14 7:35am
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Ron 78 said: Hey Sarge ,I saw this on the Silverado site,there is a link on there from the museum site showing them dropping into the HOLE

Thanks Ron. I see the NCM has posted the videos on its Youtube page. I like how they used a drone to take video footage down in the hole. 

I guess the engineers said that the Skydome is structurally stable. So the fun of cleaning up this mess begins. Disapprove



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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (8/13)
 2/13/14 11:00am
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Hey Sarge at least they can start the clean up.  I was afraid that they were going to condemn the dome.  Maybe they can restore(mostly) the cars that dropped.  Would actually be great if they showed a video of the sink hole, the recovery, restoration process and the final product.  Can you see a mob of Vette enthusiasts around viewing the video and all shaking there heads in disbelief when the sink hole opens?

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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (9/13)
 2/13/14 12:43pm
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Yeah that would be cool to see a "chronology" of this event unfold all the way to completion. Some of those vettes look like they're slightly "bent" sideways. But I suppose with a lot of painstaking effort there could be returned to their former glory. I'm hoping for the best for the NCM.

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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (10/13)
 2/14/14 2:51am
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I have a fellow C3 ('82) owner at work that also happens to be a geotechnical engineer - can't wait to talk to him about it when he gets back from vacation in a week or so.  (I'm a structural engineer - we blame these types of problems on those dirt guys - geotechs and geologists)

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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (11/13)
 2/14/14 3:59pm
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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (12/13)
 2/15/14 12:01am
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We had dinner in that space at the first C3 Xtravaganza in the fall of 2004 (2005 too?  I missed that year).
 
I read in one of the write-ups that the sink-hole was a result of poor rain water runoff management around the building.  I don't know - looking at the size of that cavity I personally find that a little hard to believe.  Seems like there had to be some lower level activity going on as well.
 
But here's hoping that the rebuild schedule is accurate and it will be all back together in time for the celebration in August.

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Re: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum (13/13)
 2/15/14 4:53pm
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Hmmm, that overhead shot...a literal money pit?

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