Photos: Baltimore Sinkhole Swallowed Cars, Streetlights and Trees

Streetlights, trees and cars have collapsed onto a train track in Baltimore. (Photo by Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Three days after severe storms and tornadoes killed at least 31 people in the United States South and Mid-West, the region has been hit by severe flash flooding.

The heavy rains have caused an enormous sinkhole to open up at 26th Street and North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland at around 4 p.m. on Wednesday near the train tracks used by CSX rail traffic.

Streetlights, cars and tress were swallowed into the sinkhole, but fire department officials don’t believe anyone was injured in the incident.  

The landslide swept across a set of train tracks and resulted in the suspension of some CSX rail traffic.

People living on the block and surrounding area have been evacuated.

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Goodbye street: Cars sit on the edge of a sinkhole in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, as heavy rain moves through the region. (AP)

The sinkhole measured a street long and caused a row of houses to evacuate. (Reuters)

Multiple vehicles lie at the bottom of a landslide after heavy rains caused a street to give way in Baltimore, Maryland. (Reuters)

26th retaining wall collapse

A blue car rests precariously on the edge of the road after a retaining wall collapsed beneath a row of vehicles. (Reuters)

Streetlights, trees and cars have collapsed onto a train track in Baltimore. (Photo by Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

 

Photos: Cute Photos of Guinea Pigs By Colin Mclaughlin

Sam and Chester making a fruit smoothie

This is one boy’s amazing picture diary of his pet rodents doing very human tasks.

Talented Colin Mclaughlin, from Maryland, USA, has created a hilarious photo collection of his pet guinea pigs, Chester and Sam.

The two-and-a-half-year-old guinea pigs appear to love nothing better than playing football, reading the newspaper or even blending up a smoothie. (Caters News)

I really enjoy the photos 🙂

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Sam and Chester barbecuing Barbie dolls

This one reads

Guinea pigs sharpen pencils too

Guinea pigs take bath too like us

This hamster is watering flowers

Sam and Chester showing off on their skateboards

Even guinea pigs love football

Someone had found a good snack

Sam and Chester perform for some pocket change

Photos: Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Storm

Massive thunderstorms have swept across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states, knocking out power to thousands of people and causing some flash flooding in certain areas.

Here are photos of the storm and the aftermath.

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Passing motorist Charles Jenkins, right, helps Lynchburg firefighters move branches of a tree that was blown over during the storm, blocking the southbound lanes of U.S. 501 through Lynchburg, Va. Thursday, June 13, 2013. About 140,000 homes and businesses remain without power in Virginia after a powerful storm pummeled the state. (AP Photo/The News & Advance, Parker Michels-Boyce)

Drivers maneuver to turn around on Bell Branch road after a severe line of storms hit the Washington DC region Thursday afternoon knocking out power with high winds falling trees and branches on June 13, 2013 in Davidsonville, MD (Photo by Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Flood water inundates the town of Spencer, W.Va., Thursday, June 13, 2013. The flooding forced the evacuation of Roane County’s 911 center and closed roads in the Spencer area, said Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management director of operations Terrance Lively. (AP Photo/Charleston Daily Mail, Bob Wojcieszak)

A Tree is uprooted during a thunderstorm damaging a house on the 600 block of N. Bradford St. Thursday, June 13, 2013 in Dover, Del. A massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest and plowed across the country was hitting the Mid-Atlantic Thursday, causing widespread power outages and flash flooding, but still largely failing to live up to its fierce billing. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Gary Emeigh)

Lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in downtown on June 12, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. A massive storm system with heavy rain, high winds, hail and possible tornadoes is expected to move into Illinois and much of the central part of the Midwest today. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Storm clouds push toward downtown on June 12, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. A massive storm system with heavy rain, high winds, hail and possible tornadoes is expected to move into Illinois and much of the central part of the Midwest today. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A storm blows in to Washington, D.C. Thursday June 13, 2013. The storm front spawned tornadoes and damage across the Ohio Valley before hitting the Washington area (Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)

Post-storm clouds catch the setting sun above the King and Queen building in Sandy Springs on Thursday evening June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ben Gray)

Ed Zunino and Kenny Price with Tree Huggerz clears debris from a home after a storm passed through, Thursday, June 13, 2013 in Hockessin, Del. A massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest and plowed across the country was hitting the Mid-Atlantic Thursday, causing widespread power outages and flash flooding, but still largely failing to live up to its fierce billing. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Suchat Pederson)

Ed Zunino and Kenny Price with Tree Huggerz clears debris from a home after a storm passed through, Thursday, June 13, 2013 in Hockessin, Del. A massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest and plowed across the country was hitting the Mid-Atlantic Thursday, causing widespread power outages and flash flooding, but still largely failing to live up to its fierce billing. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Suchat Pederson)

Storm clouds push toward downtown on June 12, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. A massive storm system with heavy rain, high winds, hail and possible tornadoes is expected to move into Illinois and much of the central part of the Midwest today. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Passing motorists Charles Jenkins (center) and Tyler Hackworth (center right) work with members of the Lynchburg Fire Department to clear a tree that fell due to heavy winds across the southbound lanes of U.S. 501 in Lynchburg, Va., Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/The News & Advance, Parker Michels-Boyce)

A Spencer resident wrings flood water out his mop as he begins the long task of cleaning up after flood waters overtook the town of Spencer, W.Va., Thursday, June 13, 2013. The West Virginia National Guard sent personnel to assist in Roane County after several inches of rain prompted flash flooding Thursday. (AP Photo/Charleston Daily Mail, Bob Wojcieszak)

Lighting flashes over the Chicago skyline, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. An unusually massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds was rolling through the Midwest on Wednesday and could affect more than one in five Americans from Iowa to Maryland. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

Clean up crews work on a large tree the crashed down blocking any access to the Charter Oaks development along Old Lancaster Pike as a quick moving storm rolls over the area Thursday, June 13, 2013 in Hockessin, Del. A massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest and plowed across the country was hitting the Mid-Atlantic Thursday, causing widespread power outages and flash flooding, but still largely failing to live up to its fierce billing. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Suchat Pederson

Post-storm clouds catch the setting sun on the Connector in midtown Atlanta on Thursday evening June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ben Gray)

The tail end of the severe line of storms that hit the Washington DC region Thursday afternoon passes over a field on June 13, 2013 in Davidsonville, MD (Photo by Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post)