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“When neighbors heard the loud boom overnight they thought a cooking gas canister had detonated. Instead they found a deep sinkhole the size of a large pot inside a home in a neighborhood just north of Guatemala City. The sinkhole was 40 feet deep and 32 inches in diameter, an AFP journalist who visited the site reported. The hole is tiny compared to giant sinkhole that formed nearby in 2007 that was 330 feet deep and swallowed several homes and a truck, killing three people. Area residents were forced to evacuate for days. A 2010 sinkhole also in the same area, measuring 60 feet wide and about 30 meters deep, swallowed a 3-story building and a nearby house when it suddenly formed. “When we heard the loud boom we thought a gas canister from a neighboring home had exploded, or there had been a crash on the street,” said Inocenta Hernandez, a 65 year-old widow. “We rushed out to look and saw nothing. A gentleman told me that the noise came from my house, and we searched until we found it under my bed,” said Hernandez. “Thank God there are only material damages, because my grandchildren were running around the house, into that room and out to the patio,” she said. Police, members of the country’s natural disaster office and water utility company officials came to visit the site. Sinkholes, formed by the natural process of erosion, can be gradual but are often sudden.” w/ photo

“When Carol Burrell’s husband told her he’d seen the image of the Virgin Mary on a tile on their bathroom wall, she had the reaction you’d expect. She sighed: “Oh, go on.” But Carol’s husband, Gary, convinced her he wasn’t crazy. She relented and they went to the bathroom to see. There she was, the Mother of God, hanging out in the Burrells’ shower. “It stood right out,” Carol said. Gary recently had retiled their shower with 3-inch stone tiles with slightly different shades and textures. Gary does remodeling for a living. He has an uncanny knack for seeing things, like how projects will look or what problems may arise, his wife said. “He sees things that a lot of people don’t see,” she said. “He has an imagination.” Carol said her husband didn’t notice the image of Mary while he was tiling the shower. Otherwise, she said, he would have given her a better spot. Nothing exciting like this ever happens at our house. Jesus doesn’t show himself in the plaster of our wall. The Madonna doesn’t appear in the dust settled on our bookcase.”