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The National Corvette Museum received a call at 5:44am from their security company alerting them of their motion detectors going off in the Skydome area of the Museum. Upon arrival it was discovered that a sinkhole had collapsed within the Museum. No one was in or around the Museum at the time. The Bowling Green Fire Department arrived on the scene and secured the area. The Fire Department estimated the size of the hole as 40 feet across and 25-30 feet deep. Eight Corvettes were affected by this incident. Those cars include:
The Museum has been closed to the public for the day to allow careful assessments to the situation. With the 20th Anniversary celebration, Grand Opening of the NCM Motorsports Park, and the National Corvette Caravan coming August 27-30, there is a lot to be excited about in 2014, and the museum looks forward to getting the Skydome repaired and reopened very soon. The museum will be open on Thursday for normal operations, although the skydome area will be blocked off and not accessible for viewing. Numerous engineers, geo-technical experts, and karst/sinkhole experts have been there throughout the day and they feel the rest of the building is safe. While this is a tragic event and there is a lot to do to repair the skydome, we are very thankful that it happened at a time when no one was here or injured. The National Corvette Museum has insurance on both the cars and the property. Their insurance adjuster has also been there and is working with them on the next steps. The NCM has retained the firm who built the 2009 building expansion, as their construction managers for this project. They will work with the foundation engineers and structural engineers to determine the best plan to stabilize the surrounding areas, repair the hole and everything else. The NCM will continue normal operations, as much as possible, and will welcome visitors and members to the 20th Anniversary celebration as planned. There is a link on the homepage of the NCM website to various photos and videos including the security camera video of the actual collapse up until the power was cut to the camera system. There is also mini helicopter footage filmed from inside the hole. www.corvettemuseum.org All cars that were on display in the Museum's Skydome, not affected by the sinkhole, have been safely removed. -#- |
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Lee, I know Marsh writes the cover for the museum. I am sure they had all bases covered with a property DIC, incl. quake, flood, and earth subsizement. My big ? is what agreement GM had with the museum on those cars ? Since GM is self insured for the first $1.0mm, I am guessing the NCM assumes all responsibility from the General. And since autos are generally excluded from coverage of property of others, that should be interesting. Wouldnt look real good for GM to sue the NCM. I left a message for Adam Boca, but I dont think he's involved with NCMs own insurance. |
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Wy? You will never see them anyway!!! :( |
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I would not be surprised if a lot of the building beyond the dome is compromised. If thats the case it may be a resite and rebuild. And it would be cheaper. GC
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Latest from Wendell. VERY GOOD NEWS!!!
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This may be very interesting as there may be many buildings in the area sitting on large very deep undetected caves which have taken hundreds or even thousands of years to develop. Sink Holes may take hundreds or even thousands of years to develop |
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More than one sinkhole opened at the same time in the area, according to local reports. This email sent to me by a friend in KY.
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Question is - will you ever feel comfortable parking your Z in that parking lot?
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My thoughts as well. More footage of the operator lol than the damage |
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