A woman who went viral as ” tunnel girl ” for digging an underground tunnel beneath her home has given an update after the project was paused over permit issues.
The initial plan back in August 2022 was to build a “storm shelter at the side of my basement,” and has cost her $50,000 (as of November 2023) NBC reported.
Although she has no formal qualifications in engineering, Kala has been documenting the process of creating the “underground tunnel system.”
But this came to a standstill when the City council shut down her building work back in December.
“So they did give me a stop work order and are requiring an immediate evaluation by a professional engineer,” Kala explained in a video at the time.
“Fortunately, contrary to a few rumours here, it is constructed entirely below the slab of my house and it shouldn’t be too hard to get the permits and approval.”
Since then Kala has provided an update on what’s going on and while the permitting process is anticipated to take another month, the good news for the TikTok tunnel digger is that the tunnel itself has been approved and deemed to be safe.