Image courtesy of guardian.co.uk

Let me tell you people, that when I saw this I thought it was photoshopped. And who could blame me? Just look at the damn thing, it’s so big and deep that it looks unreal, almost like out of some big budget disaster movie.
It’s the second time this week that I post about a disaster in Guatemala, as you remember, yesterday I posted about a violent volcanic eruption that took the lives of 2 civilians and a journalist. This time, the Tropical Storm Agatha, that went across Central America yesterday brought torrential rains that caused landslides and floods, killing more than 100 people and opening that massive sinkhole you see in the photo above. Ain’t that brutal!? And I was complaining yesterday cause we had a miserable cloudburst. Next time we get a cloudburst, I’ll just STFU, sit and watch the rain through the window, cause it’s nothing compared to this. Seriously, I’m lucky I never seen this happen in my city.

Following the break, more info and a cool video of the massive crater.

Tropical Storm Agatha swept across Central America yesterday, bringing torrential rain that killed more than 100 people and opened a 60m-deep sinkhole in Guatemala City which reportedly swallowed up a three-storey building.

The first named storm of the 2010 Pacific season dumped more than a metre of rain in parts of Guatemala, also hitting El Salvador and Honduras. At least 113 people were reported killed, with around 50 missing in Guatemala alone as rescue workers searched through the rubble.

The 30m-diameter sinkhole opened up in a northern district of Guatemala City, with residents blaming the rains and substandard drainage systems. Local reports said one man was killed when the building was swallowed. In 2007, three people died when a similar sinkhole appeared in the same area.

Substandard drainage systems? are you kidding me? Drainage is about twenty to thirty feet under the surface, that gateway to hell looks a LOT deeper than 30 feet, heck, it’s more than 100 feet deep! Plus, judging for other photos I’ve seen and the video, I don’t see much broken drainage lines, especially none that could have caused that monster crater.

Here’s a video of the sinkhole so you can see other angles.

Video Courtesy of Russia Today via YouTube (not the same source as the main article)

Visit guardian.co.uk to read more about how Tropical Storm Agatha blows a hole in Guatemala City while I go install a parachute on top of the bunker in case it falls through a massive sinkhole like that one.