In mid-September of 2016 in Tampa, Florida, News Channel 8 reporter Steve Andrews received an alarming phone call. A sinkhole had opened in Mulberry, a small city in Polk County about 30 miles to the east.
"I went up to the assignment desk and asked them to send the chopper up," Andrews, who retired in 2020, recounted. "The guys radioed back and said, 'Man, this looks like something from the moon.'" He later added: "It looked like a crater, like you could just drop down straight to hell."
