A sinkhole

A sinkhole has caused major traffic nightmares here. A 25 foot section of a 32 year old pipe burst under a section on the freeway here.
Tuesday night Rami was driving and he said, "did you know there's a sinkhole here?" Knowing that Rami does not have a degree in geology or engineering I doubted him instantly. He saw that I didn't believe him so he purposely drove over the sinkhole in question. I still didn't believe him because all I felt was a little blip. A mere "wrong ways bump". What is a reverse bump called...a hole, more like a divet?
I still didn't believe him, because I watch the news and read the news online all day long and there was no mentioning of a sinkhole on Tuesday. Besides...don't sinkhole usually involve swallowing cars or houses?
We've had so much rain lately. Days and days of rain for weeks on end.
Last night we get a phone call from the school district. It's part of their emergency contact system. The message says to be aware that Caltrans is shutting down the freeway in both directions due to a sinkhole. LOL...really! Rami was right...24 hours later they discovered the sinkhole and now we have to endure a 5 day shut down of the major freeway in town so that they can fix the pipe that burst underground. The theory is that the pipe burst because the ground shifted because of all the rain.
This morning I went to the gym early and returned home before 7am. At 6:45am our street was majorly backed up and the whole town is a mess. The freeway is the only thing that links up portions of the city and most of the streets in town are already normally congested so this just makes it oh so much worse. Crazy people are doing u-turns in the middle of the street and almost hitting each other. I had to venture out to take Ava to the pediatrician today and was almost nailed more than once by frustrated drivers who just suddenly decided to turn around in the middle of the street.
I hope they get this fixed by Monday.