{"id":20469,"date":"2016-11-15T20:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20469"},"modified":"2016-11-15T20:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:55:40","slug":"severn-trent-national-grid-et-al-take-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20469","title":{"rendered":"Severn Trent, National Grid, et al Take Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 November 2016, a <a title=\"Huge sinkhole opens up in Japanese city: 'I heard a loud boom'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/nov\/08\/huge-sinkhole-japanese-city-fukuoka-railway-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive sinkhole 30m across and 15m deep opened in the middle of Fukuoka, Japan<\/a>, just after 5am. This is what it looked like.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fukuoka Sinkhole\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/264;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fukuoka Sinkhole\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sinkhole_open.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"264\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>By the morning of 10 November \u2013 also in 2016, just in case Severn Trent or National Grid staff are reading this \u2013 <a title=\"Japanese road reopens one week after vast sinkhole appeared\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/nov\/15\/japan-fixes-vast-fukuoka-city-sinkhole-repaired-two-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is what they had done<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fukuoka Sinkhole Repaired\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/348;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fukuoka Sinkhole Repaired\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sinkhole_fixed.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"348\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the area didn\u2019t actually reopen until November 15 because of safety checks. 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