A storm left over from former Cyclone Gita swept across New Zealand recently, damaging buildings, knocking out electricity, and causing flooding. It also triggered a bizarre natural phenomenon known as granular flow -- essentially a raging river of rocks.
(If you're interested, geologist Dave Petley explains this freaky and frightening phenomenon over at the Landslide Blog.)
And tougher to fathom in retrospect, who would have imagined this way back when?
No one could have imagined... from r/funny
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown." -- Stephen Gardiner
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