Giant pothole forms spontaneously in Chinese province
Having lived in Detroit for a period of time, I can attest to the damage that potholes can inflict on a car's suspension. One particularly bad crator nearly threw me and my little Mazda Protege off a stretch of I-75 just south of the city one time. Still, despite the crumbling roads of Michigan caused by overweight semis running back and forth, I've never encountered a pot hole like the one that recently formed in Nanchang in the Jiangxi Province of China. The giant hole apparently opened up on its own this week, taking 72 square meters of road surface with it. It's depth is seven meters, which would easily swallow a Protege bearing myself as cargo and a half dozen other cars, as well. Thankfully, no injuries were reported, but if the Jiangxi Department of Transportation is anything like MDOT, we expect a road crew, some orange barrels and one serious order of asphalt to be on the scene by June.
[Source: Sina via Carscoop]
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generalmotorsman4life 4:14PM (4/26/2007)
Uh oh! looks like War of The Worlds for real this time!
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Fabulo 4:18PM (4/26/2007)
And it looks like a good idea to be standing close to the edge. And safe too!
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Mike M. 4:19PM (4/26/2007)
Maybe someone has finally dug through!!!!!
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Tim UF 4:21PM (4/26/2007)
I would venture to say that isnt a pot hole... but a sinkhole... they happen in florida quite often...
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phil 4:24PM (4/26/2007)
smart, fellas, stand right next to the hole. Make sure you jump up and down too.
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5 Watt 4:31PM (4/26/2007)
In unrelated news the water works department in Nanchang believes it has a water main leak but has yet to establish where the leak is.
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Paul Y 4:31PM (4/26/2007)
Having driven to Michigan a handful of times, all i have to say is this:
Are you sure this isn't a picture from Detroit?
People bitch about the roads in Buffalo, but there's a reason we have tolls on the 90: maintenance costs money.
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Patliean1 4:51PM (4/26/2007)
GOD-GE-LA!! GOD-GE-LA!! GODZILLA!! GODZILLA!!
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Giani 5:10PM (4/26/2007)
http://4wheelsblog.com
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mehugtree 5:25PM (4/26/2007)
..in Atlanta they'd just throw a (big) chunk of 2" metal sheet over it and call it a day.
Unless, of course, it was in the "nice" part of town.
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WNG 5:51PM (4/26/2007)
What's the big deal?
That would go un-noticed in NYC.
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Will 6:28PM (4/26/2007)
Ut oh! Dis stweet no worky, yew shood go wound dee udda wei!
Still, it's nice to know that there's something a step up on the food chain from Great Wall, Cherry, and the rest of those Chinese designs. If Mr. Pothole does his job properly, perhaps they won't have enough of those ugly rat-traps to ship to the US!
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BartMack 6:39PM (4/26/2007)
yup, they buried those things millions of years ago... but you ain't seen nothin' yet! So who's driving the things-? Watch the lightning... watch...watch it.. THERE!
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paul34 6:54PM (4/26/2007)
#10: Seriously. You all should take those freakin metal plates and go hit your public works people. Worthless!
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Viv 7:51PM (4/26/2007)
#10, i hit atleast a couple of those metal plates every day here in the atl.
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huis 8:40PM (4/26/2007)
If it was Michigan, they'd put out the barrels, come and dump some tar and gravel out of a truck on it late at night some time, let cars run over it and compact it down and spew loose crud all over the place, and then they'd come back and do the same thing every month for the next half a year, and then they'd finally shut it down and dig it up for 3 months while they fix it and hold up traffic. At least that's what it seems like in my part of the state.
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Ryan 7:38AM (4/27/2007)
@1, you took the words right out of my mouth...
It was only a few days ago I watched that movie for the billionth time. I loathe Tom Cruise, but love that movie.
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Matt Nelson 9:15AM (4/27/2007)
I was in Nanchang back last September and it is a very industrial town. Spending a week there was quite an experience. I could not believe the sheer number of vws and audis there. The upper middle class seems to be arriving at the medium sized cities as well (Nanchang has around 2.5 million people.)
Ironically, there is a Ford factory there.
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eDamo 9:48AM (4/27/2007)
Lmao @ #3
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Yggdrasilly 10:12AM (4/27/2007)
"Lousy Occidentals! They dig and they dig and they dig, and WHERE DO THEY COME UP?!?!?..."
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