Is it nothing to worry about, or is there an ominous explanation for an abundance of sinkholes on East York streets?

Is something bigger going on, like the malignant force that caused the ground to open up in Florida last March and swallow a house, killing a sleeping man inside?

An outbreak of sinkholes has been reported across the U.S. and around the world this year. One sucked up a 1-hectare pond in Georgia, while another in a Montreal parking lot devoured two cars last winter.

People are starting to think something weird is going on.

And maybe East York is ground zero for the arrival of the phenomenon in the GTA. You never know.

We didn’t make any local associations until we got a note from an esteemed Star editor, whose observations we trust, saying he’s noticed an unusual number of sinkholes in East York.

“Just wanted to let you know they’re all over the place this spring,” he said. “It’s hard to simply get around the neighbourhood without running into one or two.

“I don’t know if it’s due to age, the wet weather or what, but it’s really quite the epidemic.”

After his note, we started looking and spotted a few, but weren’t sold on the idea until we found ourselves inching up the hill Monday in thick traffic on southbound Don Mills Rd.

A deep sinkhole had formed in one of the two left turn lanes onto eastbound O’Connor Dr., forcing drivers to go around it and making the regular backup at the bottom of Don Mills even longer.

That was one too many, and it got us thinking the esteemed editor may be on to something.

It could be nothing more than all that rain this spring. Maybe there’s another harmless explanation.

Or it could be a sign the earth is convulsing beneath us — oh God, oh God! — and the city is about to disappear, like Atlantis.

We want to know if anyone else has noticed too many sinkholes in East York, and what they think it means. Send us a note at thefixer@thestar.ca .

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And we’ll be asking Toronto transportation services for an explanation, not that they’d give us the scoop if they know the end is near.