Eight vehicles, including two Corvette ZR1s, were swallowed by a sinkhole opening up under the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky this morning.
Local WKBO News reports that the sinkhole is 40 feet wide and 20-30 feet deep.
There's currently no information if the sinkhole is growing or not, but here's the one shot we have of the sinkhole itself, right under the Skydome floor.
Screenshot from a camera inside the Corvette Museum Skydome. http://ift.tt/1bWGMCo
— WBKO Newsroom (@WBKO_Newsroom) February 12, 2014
No one has been hurt so far, the fire department is on site, and a structural engineer will be advising the museum what to do now.
Update 9:56 a.m.: WKYU-FM has released a list of cars swallowed up in the sinkhole. Two are on loan from GM and six are owned by the museum.
The cars on loan from GM are:
- 1993 ZR-1 Spyder on loan from General Motors
- 2009 ZR1 "Blue Devil" on loan from General Motors
The other six vehicles owned by the museum are:
- 1962 Black Corvette
- 1984 PPG Pace Car
- 1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette
- 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette
- 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette
- 2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette
And here is a photo of the sinkhole from CNN:
Wow! RT @ChristinaCNN: Here is the first pic of the #sinkhole under the National #Corvette Museum: http://ift.tt/1jxagvc
— Alexander Hunter (@AlexanderCNN) February 12, 2014
Update 10:08 a.m. The local Daily News reports that the sinkhole opened up under the dome of the building. The dome is now closed, but the rest of the museum remains open.
Museum Executive Director Wendell Strode told the newspaper that this is the first incident of a sinkhole in their history. He said structural engineers from Western Kentucky University were on their way to assess the situation.
Photo Credit: Corvette Museum/Panoramio
There's A Sinkhole Under The Corvette Museum And It's Swallowing Cars