Turning on the TV Saturday morning, Donna Shackelford was surprised to hear about a sinkhole.

She was more surprised when she realized the sinkhole was in the same shopping center she was going to with friends.

"At first we heard sinkhole, and then we heard Lancaster, and Tanger Outlet, and then we went 'Oh!'" Shackelford said.

Her and her friends Linda Breeden and Becky Tolley are in the Lancaster area from Virginia on a girls' weekend, and were targeting the outlet mall as their main shopping destination.

The sinkhole formed in the parking lot in a year-old section of the mall in East Lampeter Township around 4:30 p.m., according to officials.

No one was injured, although one woman was in her car as it sunk into the ground.

All of the cars were removed by crane overnight, with a couple cars sustaining minor damage, according to a regional marketing manager for Tanger Outlets, Randy Zimmerman.

Zimmerman said the sinkhole expanded a little bit overnight. They are watching it to be sure it doesn't expand further.

Zimmerman's main focus for now is to evaluate the sinkhole and find a cause. Engineers are working on it, and Zimmerman said it's "all hands on deck."

Once they find the cause, they can put a plan in place to fix the situation, he said.

In the meantime, dozens of people have come to the site of the sinkhole Saturday morning to get a look, take some pictures and maybe do some shopping.

Unlike the Virginia group, onlooker Tiffany Schomer came by the outlets just to see the sinkhole.

Visiting from Greensburg, she said as soon as they heard it was so close, her and her family decided to check it out. "I've never seen anything like that before," Schomer said.

Pete Vilas, who retired to Strasburg earlier this year, heard about the sinkhole Friday night and was nearby for something else Saturday, so he decided to swing by the outlets to see it for himself.

"This is pretty amazing," Vilas said. "This area's not known for sinkholes."

The seriousness of the incident was not lost on him though. "I'm only doing it because there were no injuries," Vilas said.

The Virginia group would not be deterred from their shopping experience, but took the moment took check out the sinkhole.

"We thought it must be the new section because we hadn't been here in a while, then we pulled in this morning and lo and behold," Shackelford said. "It's pretty amazing."