
Corvette Museum Sinkhole
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A decade later, and the Corvette Museum sinkhole is still a source of fascination.
It's been ten years since that infamous sinkhole disaster at the National Corvette Museum. A new exhibit looks at this epic "making lemons out of lemonade" moment that has brought worldwide attention to the tourist attraction.
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Corvette Museum Sinkhole
Clip: Season 3 Episode 39 | 3m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
It's been ten years since that infamous sinkhole disaster at the National Corvette Museum. A new exhibit looks at this epic "making lemons out of lemonade" moment that has brought worldwide attention to the tourist attraction.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipIt's been ten years since that infamous sinkhole disaster at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.
It's an epic making lemonade out of lemonade moment, bringing worldwide attention to the tourist attraction.
Our Laura Rogers takes us to a new exhibit that looks back at the past ten years and ahead to the future.
It starts with driving down 65 and seeing that.
Skydome, an iconic landmark for 30 years.
And it was a decade ago.
It's been an eventful ten years.
Bowling Green's National Corvette Museum made headlines all over the world.
It went from being a local story to nationwide to worldwide very quickly.
On February 12th, 2014, the floor under the Skydome collapsed, swallowing eight Corvettes into a sinkhole at least 35 feet deep.
It's actually quite jarring to see the power that it must have taken to destroy these cars.
It's phenomenal.
A new exhibit is now on display at the museum, celebrating ten years of progress since that fateful day.
And it's kind of fun to have an exhibition that puts a stake in the ground and says, you know, this is what we've done and this is what we're going to be doing going forward.
Ground to sky.
The sinkhole reimagined includes five of the cars involved in the disaster from the worst of the damage.
Both of those were crushed under boulders and rocks and other.
Cars to the 2009 ZR1 Blue Devil, which had barely a scratch.
That one was actually pulled out of the sinkhole, put down and started right up and drove away.
There's also the one millionth Corvette to roll off the line.
A 1992 model restored by General Motors in Michigan.
We have that on display with the time lapse of that restoration behind it.
It's very cool to see.
There are also oral histories and perspectives from museum employees, including the first person to walk in on the scene.
I thought something was on fire.
The museum's librarian, Miss Betty Hardison, thought the dust was smoke until getting closer.
I could see that there was a hole and a bunch of cars were gone, which freaked me out quite a bit.
You can also get an up close look at the keys and artifacts from those crushed cars.
Which is really interesting.
You see everything from a 62 all the way to ac6 key fob.
So that technology from those keys is here today.
Another interesting and inclusive feature, the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville created special Braille labels for all five Corvettes.
And if you're worried about how stable the structure is now, Robert Max Heimer says never fear.
They brought in some of the best architects and engineers to backfill that hole and also putting in caissons that go all the way down to the bedrock.
The Skydome specifically is probably one of the sturdiest places in Bowling Green right now.
Max Heimer says summer attendance numbers at the museum have been strong as attention continues to grow on Kentucky tourism.
We're trying to kind of program different parts of the museum so that when you come here you always see something a little bit different.
Ten years later.
One thing does remain the.
Same, and we still get visitors from all over the world.
We want to come here and see the sinkhole.
This exhibit satisfying some of that curiosity.
For Kentucky edition, I'm Laura Rogers.
Thank you, Laura.
Ground to sky.
The sinkhole re-imagined runs through September 15th at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.
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