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Apparently, a new sinkhole had opened up inside the Nixa city limits, right underneath a guy's house. However, it didn't take me long to discover that all the doors were locked from the outside or simply didn't open at all.
They had us pose for a few shots on the edge of the roof. Sometimes, to get from one section of floor to the other, we would have to force open another rusty door, although we weren't damaging them.
We spent a while down there checking it out and rolling balls down the lanes, but eventually we went back the way we came.
Right before our stunned eyes, half of the house broke away and fell into the sinkhole, stopping just short of sliding all the way to the bottom. I'd only been to the Dodd City Schoolhouse once before, when Slim Jim and myself had stumbled upon it by accident a few years back, so I didn't really remember where it was. Ofcourse, Blackberry devices support secure access to Domino data, and Domino with Blackberry is one of the hottest emerging niches.
Right before our stunned eyes, half of the house broke away and fell into the sinkhole, stopping just short of sliding all the way to the bottom.
We went over and watched them for a bit, thinking they might be good for a few pictures.
I decided right away I'd probably just keep it as a souvenir instead of cashing it. It wasn't an extremely long tunnel, but it would've been nice to have it anyway.
It was fine with me, because I hadn't really wanted to mess with hauling my chain ladder up the elevator shaft and lowering it down for the others.
It was another large, empty room, but this one had apparently been some sort of recreational area.
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We told him about the sinkhole and he told us he was also having some video dubbed off. In the end, though, I just went back to the basement and crawled back out of the air vent.
Michelle Sherwood came over and talked to us a bit, and we showed her the video as well.
It appeared that someone had been storing a lot of stuff down here and hadn't touched it for quite some time.
Louis area and did a little exploring while we were there. Well, when we walked up to the building, those guys were there again.
Unlike the other side, this one wasn't reinforced with concrete and was just bare rock. We could see police guarding the sinkhole from at least two sides. The sinkhole was about half the size of a basketball court and had erupted under the side of the house at the end of the driveway. It was just a typical railroad tunnel, with rocks and debris laying across the tracks in places. I had to shimmy down a large pipe so that I could drop down into the tunnel. I felt sort of famous.
There had once been basketball goals at each end of the room, and you could still faintly make out the court lines on the wooden floor.
Beyond that, the inside was shored up with plain concrete walls and wooden beams before giving way to natural rock walls.
But, from there, we were able to head out into the main thoroughfare of the mall.