Serena Kigo Hotel submerges on COVID-19 Easter day
By Drone Staff
Serena Kigo Hotel has been submerged. The magnificent 5 star hotel that overlooks the banks of Lake Victoria, this morning of Easter of 2020 has been reclaimed by nature. The hotel as seen from the photograph is taken up by water; it is almost being swallowed.
Onlookers in Kigo area watched in shock as a massive water threatened to swallow up a building complex this Easter.
Serena Kigo Hotel is part of a complex built on the banks of Lake Victoria and the surrounding is swampy. The building complex fell into raging water that is believed to have come from the lake.
A resident who did not want to be named said that these occurrences are generally caused when circulating ground water dissolves rock below the ground: “As the sediment dissolves, caves and air pockets develop underneath the land surface. If there is not enough support for the land above the spaces, then the ground collapses and results in a lake, and this new lake has to be filled up by water. This is what is happening now.”
“Usually you get a collapse because something occurred that transported the material, creating the void that the land falls into,” a source said.
“If there’s a cave underground filled with soil and sediment and you get an episode of high rainfall or a change in groundwater flow, the dirt that filled the void will be hollowed. Once it hollows out close to the ground surface, it becomes thin enough that it can’t support what is on top of it and it falls in.”
At Serena Kigo Hotel, it is obvious that nature reclaimed its former share. This was part of wetland and was subtly denatured, now the wrath of nature has not been controlled.