Friday, January 25, 2013

Behind the T-shirt: Winter Park Sinkhole 1981

On May 1, 1981, a sinkhole 320 feet wide and 90 feet deep formed in the middle of Winter Park, Florida.

photo via USGS

It swallowed a Porsche dealership, a 2 story house, and a public pool.


A t-shirt commemorating this natural disaster exists for sale at Skippy Haha Vintage on Etsy. The same t-shirt on Defunkd. Perfect condition. Size Large.



Read more about it here: Wikipedia Winter Park Sinkhole

Watch 6 minutes of video from that day of a man circling the sinkhole in a plane.

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