Sinkholes

     If you are scared of a sinkhole under your house then use this blog to test and see if your house has a sinkhole. The list after this paragraph shows things that you can check for to see if you might have a sink hole.

• Fresh exposures on fence posts, foundations or trees that result when the ground sinks around them;
• Slumping, sagging or slanting fence posts, trees or other objects.
• Doors and windows that fail to close properly or exhibit changed behavior such as doors remaining open where they had previously closed of their own accord.
• Small ponds of rainfall forming where water has not collected before.
• Wilting of small, circular areas of vegetation. This happens because the moisture that normally supports vegetation in the area is draining into the sinkhole that is developing below the surface.
• Cloudy water is pumped from nearby wells where the water was previously clear.
• Cracks in walls, floors, pavement and the ground surface. This is most noticeable in a concrete block structure and is different from a few hairline cracks normally seen between blocks.

     I'm going to test the list above against my house. I don't have any fences and there isn't any trees that have visible roots that should be underground. All my doors and windows shut normally and I haven't seen any puddles around. I only have grass and its bermuda grass so it naturally dies in the winter and then comes back so there's not much I can go off there, and there aren't any wells near me. I don't have any cracks in the walls that weren't caused by me, so my house should be completely safe from sink holes.