Iain Stewart - Mystery Investigator: Olly Steeds TV - Jesse Owens - Theodore Roosevelt - Douglas Adam - Sinkholes: Swallowed Alive TV - Exodus 3:5 - William Shakespeare -
It’s called liquefaction – the ground is literally turning to water. Iain Stewart, Japan Earthquake: A Horizon Special, 2011
June 1964: Negara, Jepang: a 7.5 earthquake strikes. Within moments water bubbles up from below. Tall buildings topple. This is the only episode of fatal liquefaction ever recorded on film: 26 people died. Mystery Investigator: Olly Steeds: Atlantis, Discovery 2010
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up. Jesse Owens
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams
Florida 2011: sinkhole victim Carla Chapman is nearly swallowed alive when the earth opens up beneath her feet in her own backyard. Sinkholes: Swallowed Alive, National Geographic 2014
Sinkholes are unpredictable. Catastrophic. Deadly. Not long ago sinkholes were considered a freak occurrence ... What is causing the rash of sinkholes? ibid.
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Exodus 3:5
Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground
And dash themselves to pieces. William Shakespeare, II Henry IV IV i 17-18, Archbishop of York