FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, a truck hangs over the edge of a sinkhole that opened up in the parking lot of Hughes Relocation Services in Salt Springs, Fla. Tropical Storm Debby raked the Tampa Bay area with high wind and heavy rain Monday in a drenching that could top 2 feet over the next few days and trigger widespread flooding. (AP Photo/The Ocala Star-Banner, Alan Youngblood)
FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, a truck hangs over the edge of a sinkhole that opened up in the parking lot of Hughes Relocation Services in Salt Springs, Fla. Tropical Storm Debby raked the Tampa Bay area with high wind and heavy rain Monday in a drenching that could top 2 feet over the next few days and trigger widespread flooding. (AP Photo/The Ocala Star-Banner, Alan Youngblood)
FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2004 file photo, a sinkhole approximately 10 feet deep swallowed this automobile in the parking lot of Hitchcocks Foodliner in Archer, Fla. (AP Photo/The Gainsville Sun, Jim Matthews)
FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2004 file photo, a driver cruises past a sinkhole in West Palm Beach, Fla., on northbound Interstate 95 that developed following heavy rains Saturday night from Hurricane Frances. (AP Photo/Palm Beach Post, Damon Higgins)
FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, people look at a large sinkhole near Jonesville Park, in Jonesville, Fla. Tropical Storm Debby raked the Tampa Bay area with high wind and heavy rain in a drenching that could top 2 feet over the next few days and trigger widespread flooding. (AP Photo/The Gainesville Sun, Doug Finger)
FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2004 file photo, Sean Watson looks down into a massive sinkhole that opened up during hurricane Jeanne at the Brookfield subdivision across the street from Fort Clarke Middle School. Initial estimates put the sinkhole at 40 by 50 feet across and about 30 feet to the water. Watson said that Alachua County Public Works told him the water depth was estimated at another 20 feet. (AP Photo/The Gainsville Sun, Lee Ferinden)
A man has disappeared after being swallowed up by a large sinkhole that opened under his bedroom in Seffner, Fla. The state is especially prone to sinkholes because underneath the ground is limestone, a porous rock that easily dissolves in water, sometimes forming a hole in the earth.
Here's a look at other sinkholes in Florida.
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