Up in Kenmore, a woman awoke to a giant, 15 foot sinkhole in her driveway this morning. When unusual seemingly natural phenomena occur at Seattlest HQ, our kneejerk response is to think back over our possible sins of the last 24 hours in case we managed to unknowingly aggravate the pantheon. However, in this case, it looks like the sinkhole was caused not by malicious pavement sprites but by a tunnel boring machine chipping away at the earth 150 feet below Pauline Chihara's driveway. The machine is part of King County's Brightwater sewage water treatment project. Brightwater officials are saying something about a "migrating void" and promising to investigate further, lest more upright county citizens find unpleasant pits of hell on their property as the project continues. more ›