“I’m hoping it turns into a swimming pool.”
Teresa Moore, Resident of Winlock, Washington
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| Photo by Martin Luff (Creative Commons) |
The folks living in Winlock, Washington (population 1,235) have sinking feeling. Literally. What started out as a small crack in their main street has turned into a 15-foot-long sink hole.
Looking to get to the bottom of things, city workers discovered that a century-old culvert that runs beneath the city to divert a creek had broken open. The hole it created is a big one. According to one official—big enough to swallow a cabin.
And the hole isn’t the only thing that’s big. The bill for fixing the sink hole could swallow up the city’s entire budget, and then some. City officials hope the state will step in to help.
If it doesn’t, one resident has a “when you have lemons make lemonade” suggestion. Since they already have the hole, she says, why not put in a swimming pool?
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