TikTok\u2019s viral \u2018tunnel lady\u2019 ordered to stop digging project by city officials TikTok: engineer.everythingThe woman known across TikTok as the \u2018tunnel lady\u2019 has been ordered to stop her viral unpermitted digging endeavor by city officials. 37-year-old Kala, also known as \u2018engineer everything\u2019 online, has become a veritable sensation on social media thanks to her viral project digging a 30-foot-long tunnel off the side of her basement as a kind of underground \u201cstorm shelter.\u201d Kala began her project in August 2022 and has been documenting the process on TikTok ever since October of that year. While Kala says she has no formal background in engineering, she claims she has undertaken most of the work herself, occasionally recruiting friends for help when needed. TikTok\u2019s \u2018tunnel girl\u2019 ordered to stop viral digging project Kala\u2019s unique endeavor has earned her half a million followers as viewers pour in asking questions like, \u201cIs it legal to just start digging?\u201d and \u201cDo we have a goal, or are we just expressing ourselves through tunneling?\u201d However, it looks like Kala\u2019s project has been put on pause. In a TikTok video uploaded on December 28, 2023, Kala performed a sort of \u2018skit\u2019 reenacting her encounter with city officials who supposedly asked her to stop tunneling. In her video, Kala claimed that she was hit with an official order to halt her current activities, and said that she needs to obtain the proper permits to continue to her tunnel after it gets evaluated by an engineer. \u201cSo, they did give me a stop work order, and are requiring an immediate evaluation by a professional engineer,\u201d she said. \u201cFortunately, contrary to a few rumors here, it is constructed entirely below the slab of my house, and it shouldn\u2019t be too hard to get the permits and approval. So, we\u2019ll be working on that.\u201d While Kala\u2019s content has mostly garnered curious cats in awe of her odd hobby, several viewers expressed criticism of her viral tunnel, with one writing: \u201c\u2018It shouldn\u2019t be too hard to get the permits and approval,\u2019 then maybe you should\u2019ve done that first, Kala. Also you are downplaying the severity of your passion project even in your reenactment.\u201d \u201cWhen I fall into a sinkhole because my quirky neighbor wanted tunnels for some reason,\u201d another wrote. Kala has declined to comment further on the matter \u201cuntil the permit process is complete,\u201d as per the New York Post \u2014 so fans will just have to wait and see what\u2019s to come of this viral underground undertaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikTok\u2019s viral \u2018tunnel lady\u2019 ordered to stop digging project by city officials TikTok: engineer.everythingThe woman known across TikTok as the \u2018tunnel lady\u2019 has been ordered to stop her viral unpermitted digging endeavor by city officials. 37-year-old Kala, also known as \u2018engineer everything\u2019 online, has become a veritable sensation on social media thanks to her viral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}