Sink Hole appears on Shropshire and Union Canal

nanna8

It was really spectacular. It even made our news here in Australia ( pretty rare, all we hear about usually from overseas is the US and China)

I don't think I've heard of anything like this before.
A very hot dry summer followed by an exceptionally wet autumn perhaps?

Or - who pulled the plug?

petra

Sago

Our daughter lives nearby, apparently the boats were empty.

On the news last night 2 live aboards were interviewed.
The water flooded into the fields next to the canal.

At least ten people were rescued from the boats.

One couple from the USA had retired, bought a canal boat over here and had only been living on it for about two or three months before this happened.

Another man said he woke up, realised his boat was tilting, leapt off and alerted others.

It was really spectacular. It even made our news here in Australia ( pretty rare, all we hear about usually from overseas is the US and China)

Sago

Our daughter lives nearby, apparently the boats were empty.

On the news last night 2 live aboards were interviewed.
The water flooded into the fields next to the canal.

I wonder how much safety surveying of man-made canal embankments is done.

Where did the water go?!

Our daughter lives nearby, apparently the boats were empty.

I saw that, it was huge, people have been rescued,

I have never known that happen before.

merlotgran 😂

It really did look strange, what a thing to happen if the boats were lived on too, I read that some are on that canal and some not used very often.

RosieandherMaw

It looked as if somebody had just pulled the plug on the canal!

Yes!

A little more lively than Narrow Boat Diaries.

It looked as if somebody had just pulled the plug on the canal!

No-one has been injured, thankfully.