INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Groundskeepers had placed orange cones and caution tape around the spot on the lawn
(Representational)
For all the concern over
leaks at the White House, a more pressing problem might be the sinkhole on the North Lawn that appears to be growing by the day.The pit in
the ground, which was first reported by White House correspondents on site this week, appears to have opened just outside the press briefing
room and deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley's office.Steve Herman, a reporter with Voice of America, tweeted that he first
spotted the sinkhole last week
It has since grown, and another sinkhole has opened next to it.Sinkholes, which have been known to swallow streets, cars and even homes,
tend to occur when rainwater seeps into the soil and loosens the sediment enough to send it sinking into crevices beneath the surface.It was
not clear what caused the emergence of the White House sinkholes.As of Tuesday afternoon, groundskeepers had placed orange cones and caution
tape around the spot on the lawn
But they couldn't do anything to keep the Internet at bay."It's not like a growing sinkhole right outside the press briefing room at the
White House has any existential meaning to it at all, right" said Twitter user Jeff Urbanchuk.A magazine editor tweeted that the sinkhole
was a "resistance icon.Even Dictionary.com got into the act, tweeting "Sinkhole: A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water
Also a sinkhole: A place into which foul matter runs."By midafternoon, the sinkhole had its own following self-described as #TeamSinkhole,
and of course, its own Twitter account - @WHsinkhole.This isn't the first time one of President Donald Trump's residences has been vexed by
a sinkhole.Exactly one year ago to the day, a sinkhol opened in front of Mar-a-Lago, Trump's estate in Palm Beach, Florida.That hole, which
was about 4 feet by 4 feet, was much larger than its White House counterpart appears to be
Palm Beach officials blamed the widening ditch on a newly installed water main in the area.Still, many believed it was a sign of something,
well, deeper.(This story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
