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Just a thiought. On the collapsing hotel, the fire alarm would be thd best way to alert everyone. Door to door is pointless.

Many of the buildings in Florida are built on reclaimed land, land that was once a body of water or swamp. They fill it with dirt and build on top, what could go wrong?

Thanks for the warning about how many theme parks Orlando has. Theme parks are my idea of hell.

Most people are useless during an emergency, but there are those who can keep a level head and plan quickly to survive, those are the people you want to listen to! They're obvious but not obnoxious.

Florida, alligators, sink holes, hurricanes, tornadoes, storm surges and major flooding, earthquakes and heat waves..... no way would I want to live there.

I have had two sinkholes occur in my life so far the last one was in my yard just six feet from my back door. So scary! So I refuse to go to Florida ever. This is a nightmare! Those caves are another nightmare!!!!!

To add another problem to the equation, in Florida, we have " Big Sugar" issues. They're seemingly untouchable. The runoff of the pesticides looks like black death, as it enters our waterways. Big Sugar refused to take accountability for the damages they are a major part of causing, such as Red Tide. Big Sugar likes to finger point, instead... "land development". Civial engineers wanted to make improvements to better waterway flow. Big Sugar said "No", and threatened with huge lawsuits. Lake Okachobee has already reached its peak of suffering from Big Sugar runoff. I'm beginning to feel like, after 54 years of being a Florida resident, the only fresh water that we can truly rely on will come from sink holes.

Also? There’s something to be said about not building on swampland. Mother Nature may want her land back.

The security man was such a hero! You couldn't pay me to live in FL, it's a humid tourist trap land.

Not one of these people had the wherewithal to pull the fire alarm. Geeze.

Yet ppl dont think we neèd to live in harmony with nature.

Note to self: If there are cracks in the columns, LEAVE!

The 2013 sinkhole in Seffner was only about two miles from my home. I had been in that neighborhood the weekend before this happened.

New fear unlocked . Turns out I'm not even completely safe as i sit here in my home on the sofa watching YouTube 😂😂

You don't build on swamp land.

There was a home in Mulberry, Fl that did this. The family woke to rafters cracking and bowing, they fled the house in their PJ’s and made it out. By 10 am the house was fully engulfed. The county filled in the hole and placed a playground on it, I’ve never seen a child out there. Sink holes in that part of Florida re very cooked the phosphate mines have been dogging the earth for about a hundred years. Nearly every home in Mulberry has cracks. I also remember the one in Valrico about 20 miles from Mulberry to the west close to Tampa. A man lost his life and this was unbelievable but it happened.

Florida is mostly on a karst formation, limestone. Water is eroding underground. Sinkholes opening are more prevalent during droughts because the pressure isn't holding the ground up anymore.

You could say, that sinkholes really belongs to earth 🌎, but humans decided to built houses 🏘

Sink holes are interesting. You seriously 😒 can't learn enough about them. I've learned a lot from this video alone, and has really wetted my taste to learn more.

When I lived in South East Florida, the block I lived in was on a dead coral reef. Multiple times a day there were sounds like a bowling ball hitting the lane. We were even on a news station, back in either the late 80’s or early 90’s… Then if you cross the state from east to west, the highway nicknamed Alligator Alley.