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| Sinkhole swallows car in Chicago |
(Scroll down for video) One person was left injured and three cars were damaged after a huge sinkhole opened up in a residential area in Chicago.
A massive landslide in the South Side of Chicago came after a night of heavy storms and rains in the area.
At around 5:15 am, the sinkhole gave way and two cars fell inside. Shortly after firefighters arrived, a third car was seen sliding into the hole. A fourth car was towed away from the scene before it, too, would have been swallowed, according to witnesses.
“This is very unsettling, knowing that the the road underneath us can open at any moment and swallow a person, car, or house at any moment,” Jasmin Walker, 24, from Chicago, Illinois told YourJewishNews.com, after seeing the car falling into the sinkhole.
Three to five inches of rain fell overnight in the Chicago area, causing problems with flooding, road closures, school closures and delays in public transport in the Metro train system.
Chicago Water Department Commissioner Thomas Powers said the blame for the sinkhole was not the rain, but the nearly one hundred year old sewer system of the city. “When the water main broke, it breached the sewer below it, undermined the soil underneath the pavement, and washed it into the sewer," Powers said.
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