Residents explained the sinkhole appeared on the only road in and out of the subdivision, sparking serious concerns about the neighborhood
The front lawn of a Central Florida home is now the site of a massive sinkhole that is 70 feet deep and has residents worried that their neighborhood will be swallowed up as it keeps growing.
“We don’t want it to grow. We don’t want to have to evacuate because this is the only road in and out of the subdivision, so it’s just pretty scary to all of us,” Sharon Stein, a neighbor next to the house on Royal Crest Drive in Lakeland who first spotted the collapsing ground, told WSFA12 .
Stein told the local news station that she had brought the sinkhole to her neighbor’s attention on Saturday morning.
“I went across the street with my dog and I was taking him over there,” she said to the local news station. “And when I went down the street, I could see something was wrong over there and so I went and investigated. Apparently, it had just happened because the neighbor over there had gone through at 7:30 and he didn’t see anything wrong.”