{"id":65245,"date":"2016-01-29T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=65245"},"modified":"2016-01-29T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:03:00","slug":"massive-sinkhole-closes-part-of-oregon-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/massive-sinkhole-closes-part-of-oregon-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Sinkhole Closes Part Of Oregon Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"
WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) A massive sinkhole has opened up on the opposite side of a road where another sinkhole appeared in December 2015 in Oregon.<\/p>\n
The surface became unstable after winter storms battered the area, that’s then a section of a shopping center began to move away.<\/p>\n
The first sinkhole was first noted in December in the parking lot of a diner.<\/p>\n
This then triggered a 50ft landslide with collapsed the entire road.<\/p>\n
This started at around noon after a storm unleashed 1.5 inches of rain.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman, Jared Castle, said the widening sinkhole is threatening to undermine all four lanes of the highway, according to the Curry Coastal Pilot<\/a>.<\/p>\n ‘The hole was only the size of a volleyball, but it was a seven-foot hole,’ Castle said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The sinkhole continues to widen as a series of storms continue to hit the area causing it to overflow several times.<\/p>\n In western Oregon landslides and heavy rain wreaked havoc in coastal areas of the state in December.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Transportation officials set up a detour along U.S. Highway 101 on Thursday night and have warned drivers to reduce speeds along the detour.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n