Tag Archives: Norman Hall Road

Sinkhole under the shed

The sinkholes are not just in the garage and under the front steps, Michael McCormick walking towards his shed there’s one under Michael McCormick’s tool shed. He already jacked up the shed and put blocks under it after the ground sunk underneath it. With all these sinkholes on his lot (and more in the yard), how are they connected underground? How will they expand?

Here’s a video playlist:

Videos by Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 August 2012.

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Sinkholes towards the house

The sinkholes are not just in Michael McCormick’s garage. Sinkholes there there and there Michael McCormick showing ground scans of sinkholes to Gretchen Quarterman According to groundscan radar by a VSU professor and students, the sinkholes are also spreading under his front steps and his house.

The steps are sinking and there’s a crack on the wall inside the house.

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Sinkhole in garage

In what the County Planner calls “central Lowndes County” there’s a sinkhole in a garage, deeper than a hoe handle.

Michael McCormick called me up yesterday and told me about this sinkhole in his garage at 4326 Norman Hall Road. Naturally he’s a bit concerned about this problem. He thinks his insurance may cover it, but he’s looking for other options in case. So far, nobody seems to know what to do. Which can’t be the case: this isn’t the first sinkhole in Lowndes County. We’re helping get the word out to help find whoever does know more about sinkholes and what resources are available to deal with them.

It’s not only straight down and under the carport concrete.

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