Disney World Sinkhole: ‘I Was In The Tub When The Boom Went Off!' Survivor Of 100-Foot Florida Sinkhole At Luxury Resort Tells Her Tale To Fox [VIDEO]

A survivor of the Florida sinkhole told her shocking story about the sinkhole opening up at a resort near Disney World.

"I was in the tub when the 'boom' went off and the tub literally popped up and came down," Debbie Ward told MyFoxOrlando.com. She thought it was an earthquake and got out of the tub, and could "hear the cracking and the ceiling and glass breaking and we decided to get out as soon as possible."

Though no injuries were reported, many guests have quite a story to tell.

According to The Christian Post, one eye witness has said, "All of us were like deer in headlights. You don't see a building every day twisting around like it was in a vortex and coming down around you, and seeing the room you would have slept in with three toddlers sink 50 feet into the ground and then two floors collapsing on top of them." 

Ward and the others were lucky to survive the sinkhole. In March, a man in Florida died after a sinkhole opened up under his home in Hillsborough County home, Fox reports

Luxury resort condominiums crumbled into a massive 100-foot wide sinkhole, which opened up a few miles from Disney World. Dozens of guests at the Summer Bay Resort in Clermont, Fla., had only 10 to 15 minutes to escape the cracking building late Sunday, the Orlando Sentinel reports, according to USA Today.

About 30% of the three-story structure collapsed hours later, around 3 a.m. Monday, Lake County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Tony Cuellar said.

The Christian Post reports that the sinkhole has stopped growing, and the resort will announce that it is reopening.

The resort has said that "there's no reason to believe that it's going to expand or it's going to grow," according to The Inquisitr.

Watch the sinkhole collapse here:

 

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