A woman by the name of Inocenta ran out of her house, thinking something had exploded outside. Scratching her head, she saw no sign of wreckage, nothing to explain the sonic boom she’d heard. That’s when she realized the sound had to have come from inside her home.
So, Inocenta ran back inside and frantically searched everywhere. To her dismay, she found a three feet wide, forty feet deep, huge crater beneath her bed.
Had escaped prisoners dug their way in, or had Freddie Krueger come to claim her? These are the immediate questions I might have asked myself.
Fortunately, Inocenta does not possess my flair for the dramatic and did not suspect any of the aforementioned occurences. She simply thanked God for the miracle that had saved her grandchildren from the jaws of death. They had been playing near her bed at the time the mysterious gaping hole opened up, but escaped unharmed.
“Inocenta saw no sign of wreckage, nothing to explain the sonic boom she’d heard…”
The more unimaginative may apply the term “Sink Hole” to this occurrence, a phenomenon in which giant pits are caused by tropical rainstorms. After all, sink holes have been known to occur with some frequency in the area of Inocenta’s Guatamala City residence.
Why only last year, in May of 2010, a huge chasm opened up that devoured some buildings and an intersection. Miraculously, no deaths had occurred in that incident either.
Perhaps the earth is trying to talk to the good people in Guatamala City, warning them to be mindful of the potholes they create. And maybe that’s a lesson for us all as this story hits the waves of the internet and reaches our shores. Gaping holes are being exposed everywhere, in our military, politics, economy, and more recently, in our media outlets—with the news of Murdoch’s rainstorm of misconduct eroding our basic right to privacy. Hopefully, these holes will get plugged up soon before the casualties really start mounting.