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Snowplow Gets Swallowed Up By Parking Lot
- Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:00pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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It looks like something out of the movie “Tremors.” A snowplow cleaning a parking lot in Georgia fell into a hole rear first after the ground literally opened up beneath it. The driver was not injured:
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Comments (116)
docgreen
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:05pmAnyone see the terrorists and hispanics who built that drug tunnel from the boarder?
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:03pmFlorida sink hole discovered in Georgia by snow plow driver. Film at 11.
Report Post »Coldheart
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 7:19pmChannel 5 News at your service.
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:03pmObama Admin, “Unemployment down 100,00 jobs created this month” the right will never know, it was because of that big pot hole these jobs were created!
Report Post »tinlizy
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:58pmwhat GOP or Tea Party moron built this parking lot without rebar?
Report Post »tinlizy
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:57pmoops!!!
Report Post »Insipid
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:52pmSinkholes suq !
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:51pmI see several of here are from near there. Every time i travel through Calhoun I love to stop and Eat @ Dubbs BBQ. The Ribs could make a Democrat tell the truth!
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:58pmbut then he couldn’t be a Democrat any more… Catch 22
Report Post »Coldheart
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 7:13pmSounds like I definitely need to chug through the Gorge and get me some!
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:46pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:00pmSure what could possibly go wrong?
We had an incompetent County Administrator, Sends a 5 Ton Dump Truck loaded with 2 Tons of Gravel to plow the top floor of a parking garage that has a gaping hole in the concrete covered with snow that was inspected by incompetent Government inspectors who said it was structurally sound just last month.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:09pm@Blackhawk1
When anything has to do with the government the phrase “What can go wrong?” is an almost guaranteed event.
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:45pmMaybe it was one of those pork barrel spending jobs, to save money, they took a few short cuts! They didn’t use sand and gravel as a base! Our Govts Best! I know that the Obama admin will say this is going to create a 100,000 jobs!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:57pmThe hole is now shovel ready. Obummer said so.
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:27pmThat was a Halliburton job.
Report Post »Cheney is gonna use his profits from the shoddy work to buy a new heart out from under a 13 year old.
Coldheart
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 7:11pmYes! Yes! We’ve got to save money! When in doubt leave it out!
Report Post »experiencethetruth
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:42pmUnion made / built without accountability
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:41pmLooked like an elevated parking lot at no doubt a Government Building built by Union Workers.
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:38pmIt was a mexican smuggling tunnel!
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:37pmtest
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:23pmHadn’t Michael Moore just parked in that spot?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:44pm“Ah…The Hole Widens…”
And from the depths of it comes the voice of Michael Moore…”Uh, who is the dude with the red suit and the pitchfork coming this way just now…”
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:19pmWe do have sinkholes here. Big ones. Am not surprised. Glad the driver was okay, though.
Report Post »greg4fitness
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:15pmNo doubt a quality Union job
Report Post »Michiganjohn
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:14pmDriver, you’re doing it wrong.
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:11pmYou’re gonna see a lot more of that if these new glory boy Republicans actually cut anything.
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:24pmthen I hope we see dump truck after dump truck falling into holes because we new glory boy republicans are going to cut then we are going to cut some more then some more etc etc etc………
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:51pmI knew there had to be more to this story. Government incompetence at it’s finest. “Someone clearly forgot to tell the driver of this snow plow about the gaping hole on the top floor of a multi-storey car park.
The truck, loaded with two tons of gravel, was clearing snow from the top deck of the car park in Calhoun, Georgia, when it suddenly disappeared down the hole.
Unbeknownst to the driver, the pile of accumulated snow was covering a sizeable gap in the concrete, causing the truck to fall on to its side before slipping backwards into the hole.
Gordon County Administrator Randy Dowling says the county last month received a report saying the deck, which was built in the mid-1980s, was structurally sound, and noted that the beams did not collapse during the incident.”
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:15pmOh…you’ll just love it when your BMW falls through a hole into a sewer that should have been fixed in 2004. Obviously, your neighbor has all new infrastructure. Must be nice.
Report Post »Coldheart
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 6:46pmAs a neighbor of Jawjah, I never cease to be amazed at how much it resembles New Jerky, New Yawk, and Massoftwos–ts. I never cease to be tickled at their ridiculous high taxes, idiotic laws, and mind numbing corruption. We’uns in Ten-oh-see pretty much just stick with our crooked sheriffs and politicians that take petty criminals, the senile, and ignorant non-citizens to the polls to make sure they win re-election on crooked electronic voting machines. From what I can see, public employee obligations and social programs here, eat up just about all of our tax dollar muscles and leave nothing behind but gnawed bones. We have a RR trestle over a bridge that is in a hundred yard dash to see which one will collapse first. Could our priorities be a tad out of whack?
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:11pmThe infrastructure is crumbling! The infrastructure is crumbling!
Report Post »youguysready_letsroll
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:04pmYep, pretty much. Peep this:
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PeachyinGA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:54pmWe are just trying to create our own shovel-ready projects so we can get some of that Obama money.
Report Post »Werkovart
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:11pmIt’s a Michigan pothole.
Report Post »MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:08pmWow – I think Michael Moore got hungry!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:52pmI will refrain from the obvious jokes I could make on that.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:34pmWell Snowleopard here’s one. I bet there is a permanent crease in that seat cushion.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:06pmMust be that new Chinese asphalt.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:05pmWow!
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:05pmA snow plow in Georgia? That’s as much of an oddity as the video.
Glad the driver was OK, and I hope he had insurance to pay for the damages.
Report Post »Grady Curve
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:11pmYes and unfortunately that was The one snowplow we DID have
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:18pmLOL! These comments are all funny but so far Grady Curve wins.
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:25pmyep I agree, grady curve easily wins this round…
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:51pmSomewhere in Georgia there is a fisherman looking around the ground saying aloud…
“Now where did that darned nightcrawler go to, those 1000 pound catfish are just jumping out of the pond over younder and I want to get me dinner…”
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:46pmlol, SPOT ON Georgia-speak, my friend! Not bad for an Arizona cowboy wannabe!
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:46pmMeh, last comment I made was directed @ SNOWLEOPARD
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:35pm@My Sacred Honor
My grandpa was a marine and a farmer, landscaper and portrait painter among many things; he loved to hunt and fish as much as me. Only difference was I hunted boar, deer and javalinas especially, with the bow and arrow. Figured it would give them a fighting chance at closer range, and made it more of a challenge for myself on foot.
Besides, I love fishing.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:03pmContractor : did we put enough rebars in there ?
Report Post »Worker : were we supposed to put rebars ??????????????
knotaclu
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:07pmwow, that was funny but at the same time scary. Kinda like the cars coming down the icy hill, ya cant help but kinda snicker but still feel bad for those involved…
hauschild
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:09pmClassic!!!
Report Post »expatinontariocanada
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:10pmPalin‘s or Beck’s fault for sure…!
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:12pmYou get what you pay. Probably a state job that went to “the lowest bidder.”
mtnclimberjim
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:16pmGeorgia hires way to many illegal mexicans.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:16pmHey, George, you know that new dump truck with the plow?
Yeah.
Well, it’s not new anymore.
Whaddya mean?
It fell into a hole when I was plowing the parking lot.
Sure it did.
I can just imagine what the insurance accident report is going to look like.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:19pmRobertca;
I’m not sure, but it looks like an asphalt parking lot – I don’t know anyone using rebar in asphalt
Report Post »Telcoman
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:23pmUnion Job?
Report Post »just the facts
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:25pmAll your comments are great – Made my day. Thanks.
Glad the driver is OK.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:30pmDammit, and I’m from near there….only in Georgia, I reckon…
Report Post »Famous last words of a redneck:
“Hey y’all, WATCH THIS!”
CatB
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:41pmYes .. I have stayed in Calhoun GA .. lol … someone else said it .. it is a Michigan pothole — must have moved south due to global warming.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:43pmI could just imagine this worker calling his wife:
“Uh honey, the reason I am late…”
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:46pmI can also hear a song being made, a bad parody of another one (forgotten the title of it though):
“One night in Georgia and the snow plow crumbled…it fell into the hole, no one knew where it go…”
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:48pm@ DALE
Hi Dale it looks like it‘s a concrete structure here’s a report :
A maintenance truck in Calhoun, Ga., loaded with two tons of gravel fell through a parking deck while clearing snow from its top level in northwest Georgia.
The driver was not injured and no one else was in the parking deck at the time.
Gordon County Administrator Randy Dowling says the county last month received a report saying the deck, which was built in the mid-1980s, was structurally sound, and noted that the beams did not collapse during the incident.
Report Post »Disabledvet
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:04pmLike TECOMAN says Union job, the person that was suppose to ensure safety of that part of the parking lot was sick that day and no one is allowed to do his job, so it was never done. but we all know it was the tea party they came in at night and dug a sink hole and covered it with snow, they were under the supervision and direction of Palin and Beck.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:15pmA metaphor for the economy.
Report Post »Mr.Nick
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:16pmYep, thats a civil engineering miscalculation.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:23pmLooks like a lot of limestone leeching has occurred and the snow found its way through the cracks in untended pavement. Oopsy, the scary part is the number of bridges and roads that are “patch and pray” currently in the US.
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:41pmOh my goodness! How bizarre is that? (Hehehehe)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:44pmRobertCA
“top level” can you imagine being on the level BELOW… WET PANTIES?
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:51pmYou know what’s not funny about this…when I was a little kid, my best friend was swallowed up in a hole like that that occurred on a major parkway…it had rained and rained and rained…but then, it always rained in Ohio a lot…problem was that somehow the roadway wasn’t reinforced, it gave way and when the roadway caved in under the weight of the car, the car fell in, front first…The sewer main below the road (big enough in diameter to drive a car in), gave way with the weight of the car and the little girl was thrown out the back window and swept away in the underground sewage system…can’t say enough about safety and quality in road construction…huh? Her name was Claudia…she was riding in the car with a neighbor and their daughter on their way to dance lessons when it occurred…we were all devastated by the loss…she was the only daughter of an older couple…it ruined their lives…
Report Post »booger71
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:01pmThis is close to GA cave country. It could be a new sinkhole
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:26pm@ CATB
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:44pm
RobertCA
“top level” can you imagine being on the level BELOW… WET PANTIES?
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Report Post »You got that right , but in the report they’re not mentioning a lower level . Maybe it’s just 1 level structure on concrete beams just to be level with the surrounding streets .
DashRipRock
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:47pmAttension Please:
there is absolutly no truth to the rumor that Toonses the Cat was driving that snowplow.
We now return to our regularly scheduled rhetoric
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:55pmThere is also no truth to the rumor that the Blaze Blog Dude was driving the snowplow
he has just fallin asleep and thats the reason there are no more stories
So I would like to officialy change the topic.
How about that weather in Georgia?
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:55pmROBERTCA, Congratulations, you are the undisputed King of The Blaze Losers! First comment on almost every story shows very clearly that you have absolutely nothing else in your life. Impressive, in a sad, pitiful, pathetic, yet hilarious way.
Report Post »lionslayer44
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:58pmdale is right, funny but you dont use rebar with asphalt its about compaction and soils its even possible the retainer wall was failing and allowing soils to seep from its confines creating a sinkhole. what kind of drainage was used was it enough? were there cracks in the asphalt etc. etc. these things are almost always due to improper drainage and slopes to allow water to get to the drains.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:02pmBROKER666
Whats even more sad and pathetic is that you keep count how many times someone posts
LOSER!!!!!!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:46pm@RobertCA
Congrad’s, with Broken0101 now making commentary about your posts, you now are an official member of the Blaze group. They finally gave up on going after me and several others, so enjoy the sight, and loved the response you gave to Broken 0101.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:49pm@ ROBERT….LMAO!!!! EXCELLENT reply!
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:40pm@broker0101,
“First comment on almost every story shows very clearly that you have absolutely nothing else in your life. Impressive, in a sad, pitiful, pathetic, yet hilarious way.”
Because of the poor quality of the comment system (notwithstanding the excellent topics! :) ), everybody wants to be the first post, because everyone else wants their replies to appear on the first page, so people will read them. They are more likely to get pushed to the second page, otherwise.
Report Post »Anthony
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 11:54amWould this be an example of “bottom up, top down” ?
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
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