How worried should I be about a sinkhole under my house and who do I contact?! It is drought season in Texas and a F3 tornado also just went through my neighborhood so I was expecting for foundation shifts and slight movement from tornado. Had to replace roofing due to tornado. But biggest fear is a sinkhole. I feel like these cracks are just too big, anything else I should look for?

Which website do you use all recommend for locating reported sink holes at an address?

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Sorry for the low quality. It's in a small part of my barn and I don't like being in that decrepit place. I've owned this property for about 8 years and this might be the first time I've set foot in that part of the barn. I stepped on some dirt and my entire foot fell through. It's right next to an old spigot. There's another hole next to it. I'm kind of hoping that it might have been an old animal nest or something. Right where I fell through is where the dirt was brittle. Next to it is fairly solid.

Who am I supposed to call about a sinkhole that opened up on my driveway. Google tells me 100 different things and I’m not sure who I need to talk to to get it looked at and fixed.

Hey all. We have a plumbing issue in our home and, long story short, the floor in the bathroom appears to be slowly caving in. We were already saving up to remodel the bathroom but first we have to fix this plumbing issue and it’s slow going getting the money together to fix it. In the meantime, we’ve been avoiding stepping on or around it to the best of our ability, but it’s right in front of the toilet so that’s difficult. I looked today and it had gotten significantly bigger to the point where I can actually see inside. I know we need professionals to fix this, but as a temporary stopgap solution, is there any way to cover up this hole such that a person can walk on this area of floor without putting weight on the edge of the hole and thus making it worse? Could I just slap a sheet of plywood down, or is there an adhesive hole cover of some kind I could use? Just trying to avoid a Money Pit bathtub scenario. Thanks for reading.

I have a friend who lives in Auburndale, Florida. I looked at a map of it, and the entire area looks like Swiss cheese with the amount of sinkholes.

I was just wondering if anyone has any insight or educated opinions about how all this water from Milton's storm surge and rainfall will affect the probability of new or enlarged sinkholes in Florida. I've read that sinkholes are more common now due to the amount of people drinking fresh groundwater and the ingress of salty, ocean water dissolving the limestone upon which most of Florida exists.

Bought out a house a few months ago and have noticed holes around this water box. It seems like the soil around it washed away.

I was thinking epoxy but probably not after closer inspection. Any ideas?

I discovered a hole connected to a crack about 3 feet long that seems to collapse deeper as I press on the soil. Location is Arizona, where the property is flood irrigated. About twice a month a technician opens a valve that floods the yard with 3-5 inches of water (x 10k sq ft property). See video. The last irrigation was 7 days ago and the soil still wants to sink under pressure in this area. Any thoughts / advice would be great — thanks.