That Sinking Feeling (Chapter VI, "The Tip of the Iceberg")

Our story so far:

• That Sinking Feeling

• That Sinking Feeling (Chapter II, "Making Lemonade")

• That Sinking Feeling (Chapter III, "Sinkhole in Seattle")

• That Sinking Feeling (Chapter IV, "Lost in Yonkers")

• That Sinking Feeling (Chapter V, "School Daze")

Now this: you never know when what looks like an eighteen-inch-wide pothole in a busy street actually hides a ten-feet-wide, two-yard deep sinkhole underneath the asphalt. Drive carefully, Colorado Springs! Bard Lower of the city's Street Operations Office, says while sinkholes occasionally have opened up on Colorado Springs streets, this one is the largest he's ever seen.

Colorado Springs, the home base of Focus on the Family, is a very, very conservative town. I hope that doesn't mean they've been doing what conservatives so love to do: cutting taxes, even at the expense of basic infrastructure

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