A massive sink hole opened beneath a Kentucky Museum Wednesday morning and swallowed several vintage cars, including a number of Corvettes.
The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky said the fire department estimated the hole was about 25-30 feet deep and 40 feet wide, according to Fox News.
"This is going to be an interesting situation," Museum Executive Director Wendell Strode told the Bowling Green Daily News. A structural engineer was already surveying the museum's Sky Dome section the day of the incident.
Six of the cars that fell into the hole were owned by the museum and two others were property of General Motors, according to Fox News.
"It is with heavy hearts that we report that eight Corvettes were affected by this incident," the museum said in a press release.
A 1962 Black Corvette; 1984 PPG Pace Car; 1992 White 1 Millionth Corvette; 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Corvette; 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette and a 2009 White 1.5 Millionth Corvette were all lost to the sink hole. A 1993 ZR-1 Spyder and 2009 ZR1 "Blue Devil" on loan from General Motors were the other two cars that fell in.
Employees were allowed to save one car in immediate danger of falling into the sink hole but emergency personal have evacuated the the museum until it is evaluated, according to the Courier-Journal.
"Before we do anything, like remove the other cars, we want that assessment so we know if there's been any structural damage to the Sky Dome," Strode told the Courier-Journal.
No one was injured and this is reportedly the first incident of its kind at the property.
"Bowling Green is also the only place where General Motors builds Corvettes. The city sits in the midst of Kentucky's Western Pennyroyal area, where many of the state's longest and deepest caves run underground," according to The Associated Press.
