This is Not How You Want to Find Your Swimming Pool

The last thing you want to do when you come home after a long hectic day is clean the leaves out of your swimming pool or push it back down because it has abruptly risen 3 feet above ground level. That's the predicament Jessica Pedraza and her husband found themselves in when they returned to their Brandon, Fla., home and discovered their in-ground pool, which they had just drained the previous day, was jutting out of the dirt. The suspected culprit is one of the sinkholes that Florida has reluctantly become famous for.

Worse than having to figure out how to shove that pool back in there is the fact that the Jessica Pedraza insurance likely won't cover the damage, citing an "exclusions" section that doesn't take care of "water below the surface of the ground which exerts pressure on a swimming pool or other structure. The cost to fix the damage is estimated to be in the tens of thousands of dollars. Silver pool lining: At least it didn't happen on either one of their birthdays.