the chalk gets washed away underneath but only in some areas
and the sudden collapse means that either a hole appears or the water covering it does that
it happened in the area of Norwich where I lived big holes appeared in neighbours garden and a double decker bus went down a big hole in Unthank Road...old chalk workings....
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