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  1. I was just walking by here not long ago 

    Two houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.

    Four homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.

    Fire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.

    United Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.

    The fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.

    A cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.

    After leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.

     

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    Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.

    They are unsure of what caused it but it was whilst we had storm Christoph

     

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  2. On 20/01/2021 at 19:50, matty40s said:

    Manchester Police now starting to evacuate Didsbury, many roads already closed by the Mersey. 3000 homes at risk.

    Thankfully, I'm on the other side of Heaton Mersey. It was extremely high.

    They say it was the rain changing to snow that slowed it down from bursting and stopped it from doing so, otherwise it would have done.

  3. Walking up to Mam tor in the peak district on Saturday, and I think it was on Back tor (before loose ridge) taking a rest and lots of them! I wasn't having my lunch for long ! More of them this year than last. Must of been the hot weather recently brought them all out.

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