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60ft sinkhole causes Florida evacuations

60ft sinkhole causes Florida evacuations
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Crews are working to evacuate a mobile home park in Tarpon Springs, Florida due to a massive sinkhole.
 
According to authorities, residents in the Tarpon Shores Mobile Home Park located on Rachel Drive are being told to leave their homes.
 
 

Over 100 feet wide and growing, roughly 60 feet deep and filled with liquid. A huge sinkhole just opened up in Tarpon Springs near a mobile home park: http://bit.ly/25wlQgr

Posted by ABC Action News - WFTS - Tampa Bay on Wednesday, March 30, 2016

 
A sinkhole that is approximately 60 feet wide and very deep has opened up. 
 
Duke Energy is responding to the scene because the hole is impacting at least two power poles.
 

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