Sinkhole Opens Up in Centex Homes’ Hills of Rivermist
Fissure Threatens Local Homes
Local San Antonio residents are scratching their heads in disbelief tonight after a sinkhole opened up in Centex Homes’ Hills Of Rivermist community. The fissure as seen in the photo has been reported to be growing about one inch every fifteen minutes. Twenty homes have been evacuated and residents are being put up at a local hotel (at Centex Homes‘ expense) while authorities try to determine the cause of the sinkhole and what to do about it. Several homes are reporting damage and there have been no reports of injuries. Sam Lerma, a photographer at KSAT News has provided a steady stream of photos, updates on Twitter, and some video of the sinkhole.
Everyone at KSAT deserves special thanks for their coverage of the sinkhole at Centex Homes’ Hills Of Rivermist, especially their use of social media to keep residents and concerned friends, family, and local San Antonio residents up to date. If you’ve never had a chance to interact with them, please take a moment and say hello. They’ve been an incredible resource for this blog and all of San Antonio. Thanks KSAT 12 News Team, you’re an important part of our community and great people to get to know.
If you are a resident of Hills of Rivermist and need any help, please let me know and I will try and organize some people to meet your needs to help you through this horrible event.
photo courtesy of Sam Lerma
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these people need to get the building permit many of peoples houses are going down so fix it!!!!!!!!
GET THE PERMIT NEXT TIME
crystal – The unfortunate thing is that the permit probably wouldn’t have changed much. According to the facts publicly available about the wall and Centex’s building of it, although they never pulled a permit, they did have an engineer design it and a third party engineer inspect it.
In KSAT12′s most recent story on the situation, “Questions Rise Over Retaining Wall Permits,” there seems to be some argument over whether a permit was needed or not.
No matter what is the “cause” these homeowners need to be taken care of and helped out of their situation. This isn’t about profit, this is about people’s hopes, dreams, and lives.
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Seems all the builders in Texas can’t build? Any object this large and heavy needed a permit. Seems Pulte Centex is the Government and can regulate itself.
I seem to be having problems with my Seesmic comment plug-in. Here’s the link to my video comment:
Hills of Rivermist the lack of a permit. Would it have helped?
PS Seesic is no longer (at least not the video portion). I am awaiting an archived set of my videos from them, so I apologize that there is no video to watch.
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A lot of tragedies happens nowadays not just because of nature that caused the damage but most of the time it’s the human distracted ways and not following certain rules that causes these tragedies. This kind of event must be an eye-opener to those people that caused it,in the first place they are the ones that should be blamed with their reckless actions.
Good thing there are people who is willing to help. Hope this won’t happen again.
This is such a scary thing to wake up to! I’m glad there are no injuries then. I’m hoping by now the dilemma has been addressed and all the residents have been safely evacuated.
This is a concern. I recall many years ago a community was built on a large piece of land that began to sink. According to reports the homes were built on an old dump site. The town planners were sued as were the builders. I do hope this is not a repeat.
I’m so glad no one was injured. I’m sure the loss of homes was enough tragedy for all concerned.
Sink holes happen everywhere, and we must be grateful when nobody’s hurt
Oh my. An old family friend of ours live in the San Antonio area. I’m hoping that the reason we’ve ever heard of this before is because they were not affected by this sinkhole. Time to make an important phone call!
Woah! The fissure is huge and it looks like it is bound to spread a little bit more. I feel bad for the residents within the area. Not only have their investments gone downhill, but they may be on their way to completely losing their homes.
They recently completed work on a new wall. I haven’t been over there lately – need to get back and take some photos.
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