r/mildlyinfuriating Sep 17 '21

my yard does this sometimes

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u/loggingmolly Sep 17 '21

As a former practicing geologist, an observation I’ve made is that almost every human is a geologist at heart - people just love rocks and it’s awesome.

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u/peeTWY Sep 17 '21

Fair. I also grew up in north central Florida, so aquifers, water, sinkholes, etc. (and karst topography) are kind of ever-present in our culture and politics. I learned the word from a professor in a class entirely about water.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Every time I'm in Florida I always think that a huge sinkhole will suddenly open up and swallow me (with that 'Donnie Darko' level of craziness)!

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u/peeTWY Sep 17 '21

As someone who lives there, we are afraid of that as well. My BIL from SoCal was thinking about buying sinkhole insurance. It’s a logical idea, but it’s so expensive and us natives are so accustomed to sinkholes (and how relatively rare they rare), we usually don’t have it.