Thursday, August 06, 2015

Family's swimming pool popped out of ground following heavy rain

A swimming pool popped out of the ground in Florida on Monday morning.



A family heard cracking noises and called 911 after seeing what happened to their pool, which was no longer in the ground.



The building inspector called it a “popped pool.” The inspector said the house is safe except for the home’s porch.


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The home in Holiday, Pasco County, has been hit hard by heavy rain recently. Some areas were under an evacuation order on Monday.

2 comments:

WilliamRocket said...

Every pool is supposed to have a pop valve, otherwise, when empty, they act like a boat on water.
I would sue the installer/manufacturer.

Anonymous said...

@WilliamRocket

Learn something new every day. Does the pop valve empty the groundwater into the pool itself, or is it somehow forced to the surface? I'm a bit of difficulty visualizing this.

Lurker111

P.S.: That there should even be a known term for this, viz., "popped pool," is a bit disconcerting.