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Potholes have littered streets across Minnesota after weather all over the state has repeatedly shifted extremes back and forth this season. But as some saw in Uptown Minneapolis, potholes weren’t the only craters that opened. 

One on Girard avenue in Minneapolis which was 8-feet-deep

 and then another swallowed pavement on U.S. Highway 10 near Armstrong Boulevard in Ramsey.

MPR News host Cathy Wurzer spoke with engineering geologist BJ Bonin about how something like this can happen. Bonin was an author on the 

 that focused on investigating sinkholes around Minnesota and worked with others to develop 

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Vehicles across Minnesota have already experienced the plight brought on by potholes that overrun the roads but residents in Uptown Minneapolis faced a different crater. 

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