People who live in a Seffner community are on edge after a sinkhole opened up in someone’s yard Saturday evening.

It happened in the yard of a home on Lake Shore Ranch Drive, less than two miles from where the sinkhole that swallowed a man while he was sleeping, opened up last month.

It’s news Ginger Kephart says she wasn’t prepared for.

“A neighbor down the street told me that there was a sinkhole in my yard between my yard and the neighbor’s yard,” Kephart said.

Her first reaction was to panic.

“I said, oh my god! I was thinking about the neighbors down the street about a mile and a half away what happened to them,” she said.

It’s a thought many of Kephart’s neighbors share because they live so close to that deadly sinkhole that swallowed Jeffery Bush while he was in bed.

“It’s just very, very scary. It’s not knowing what could happen,” she said.

That fear wasn’t enough to get Kephart and her neighbor to evacuate their homes Saturday night.

Emergency officials say it’s about eight feet wide and 10 feet deep but it didn’t start out that way.

“The hole was only about the size of a tortoise hole so I tripped into it and we thought it was just a little hole so we just kept moving on,” said neighborhood kid, Nathan Reynolds.

To make sure Reynolds and other neighborhood kids don’t fall into the hole, code enforcement was back out again. They were putting up more caution tape and cones.

It’s something Kephart says is making her rethink her decision to stay home.

“I’m definitely worried and frightened. So that’s why we’re kinda packing up stuff just in case we do need to leave,” Kephart said.

But the same can’t be said for her neighbor who Kephart says plans to stay home.

We’re told the people who live in this home just had it inspected for sinkholes a few weeks ago and none were found. Code enforcement says they will continue to monitor the sinkhole. But ultimately it’s up to the homeowner and their insurance company to fix it.

Code enforcement initially issued those two neighbors a voluntary evacuation warning. Neighbors say code enforcement is telling them to be careful if they decide to stay and listen for cracks or popping sounds. They say those are indicators that the sinkhole is opening up.