Now that will give me nightmares: the earth just abruptly opened up in a giant sinkhole in Guatemala City.
That's alarmingly random. Now I'm wondering how you repair a pothole that's a few hundred feet deep and close to a city block in diameter…and thinking that maybe I shouldn't complain so much about the state of Minnesota roads after a long winter.
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