Topic: Cars fall into sinkhole at National Corvette Museum
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I would have thought that was the safest place in the country...
More pics, in USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/12/corvette-museum-sinkhole/5417171/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/12/corvette-museum-sinkhole/5417171/
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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. 
I wonder if any of this was caught on the surveillance cameras? It would be interesting to see this unfold.
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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.
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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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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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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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