Although I failed to finish my higher education I did retain something from a number of hours of Physics. Buoyancy was one of many "common sense" concepts I retained. Apparently some folks missed that memo.
Empty Swimming Pool Pops Out of Ground
Live and learn is my motto.
There was an error in the first sentence of the report..
“A Florida family came home one night this week and were startled to see that their…….”
SHOULD HAVE READ
“A Florida family, previously from Oklahoma, came home one night this week and were startled to see that their…..”
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Ouch! That's gonna hurt!
It's gonna hurt when Paden shows up knocking at your door with a ball bat in hand.:-D 😉 😀 😉 😀 😉
"pop-up" pipe
We have "regularly" put anchors on sanitary sewer pipe joints to keep them from floating, depending on the groundwater. Ignore the rules of physics at your own peril.
Andy
Without running the number or even knowing the numbers, I would think it would settle back into place (more or less) once you fill it with water. Of course, the soils under may have settled into the place.
I know there is a CRAZY septic design in Florida. They pump air into the system to artificially depress groundwater. These are usually constructed under the drive so a heavy concrete pad will hold everything down. I wonder if one of those ever had a blow out...
Not if....
I greeted Paden and Money with this.........
And besides, when they visit your Mommy, Her Elegance, is coming as well.......
Milk shakes and hamburgers are on the menu. 😉
Similar events occur if you live in Mississippi and have lots of Yazoo Clay in your yard. Your house goes irregularly up and down. LARGE distances.
So you call Olshan and they come out and dig 44 holes all through your slab down to bed rock at a tune of about $1,000 per hole. All of your carpet is ripped up and there is a Honduran in every hole. Looks like a giant "Whack-A-Mole" game board. Now your house is REALLY stable. It does not move at all.
BUT the ground continues to do so. Soon the ground has moved so much that you patio now has about a 20 degree slope from the house and you grill keeps rolling out into the yard. You also notice that the soil has pulled away from the house on the clay sides. Your slab is now about a foot above the nearest earth.
So you get a contractor and he digs up you patio in chunks, digs out under the house and then pours concrete all around the house and pours you a new patio, all to the tune of another $12,000.
Now you have more money in the foundation than you initially paid for the house.
OH!! I forgot!! When the house pulled away from everything, you electric service box failed to make the trip. Lots of sparks and excitement. So your generator (the only smart move you ever made) kicks in so you have power, AC and all that stuff. That's another $2,300. Your natural gas powered generator runs 24 hours a day for 5 days and you just don't want to see how fast the meter is spinning on the gas meter. (It ended up only costing me an extra dollar a day on my bill. One little piece of luck at least.)
Their swimming pool popped out of the ground and insurance won't cover it and it may run 5 grand to fix it? Poor Baby!! Insurance will not cover Yazoo Clay. Period. They had a bad weekend, but mine just totally sucked!! :poop:
Yazoo clay
I worked with a geotechnical engineering firm once. I saw some reports and actually got my hands on testing some of this soil. The plasticity index is amazing. I have seen what this soil will do to highways, houses, pipelines and other structures. As to the soil itself, access to moisture was the trigger resulting in devastating effects. Houses can and will move! :-O
