Holy cow!
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A massive sinkhole that has opened up at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky has swallowed at least eight cars, a museum official says.
Museum Executive Director Wendell Strode told the Bowling Green Daily Newsthat the sinkhole, which he estimates to be around 20 feet deep and 40 feet wide, opened up early Wednesday morning.
"This is going to be an interesting situation," he said, nothing that a structural engineer is heading to the Bowling Green facility to evaluate the damage inside its Sky Dome section.
Five of the cars in the sinkhole are owned by the museum and three others are owned by General Motors, the Courier-Journal reports.
Strode told the newspaper that emergency personnel allowed museum staff to remove the only surviving 1983 Corvette, which was at risk of joining the other cars in the sinkhole.
“Before we do anything, like remove the other cars, we want that assessment so we know if there’s been any structural damage to the Sky Dome,” Strode told the Courier-Journal.
The area around the sinkhole is closed for visitors, but the rest of the museum remains open as of Wednesday morning.
An estimate of the cost of the damage done to vehicles and the museum has not been determined yet.
No injuries have been reported.
