Sink hole in Boughton near Canterbury swallows tree in front garden

In this news article, a gaping sinkhole swallowed an eight foot tree.

This picture was taken 5 minutes after the fall

What's there:

This occurred in February 24th, 2016. This tree was famous for its size and height. The tree belonged to its owner "Zoe Slater" that noticed the tree was missing from her property. Many people of the town were sad to see such destruction happen to a tree that they all knew of.


Why's it there:

 This may have happened because of a pipe underground that was leaking water caused the dirt to soften resulting for the tree to collapse because the dirt couldn't handle the amount of pressure the weight was giving off because of the water softening it.

Why care:

Not a lot of trees have the potential to grow this big. We should care because trees this humongous should be remembered and famous and have meaning, obviously Mrs. Slater was upset after losing a tree that was bigger than most of the trees in the forests in the area she lived in.


I decided to share this article because we were discussing about sinkholes in a few classes, and I thought you would all enjoy recognizing real life situations that happened about sinkholes!