Be careful of cracks under your feet.
What started as crack in the soil of a Climax, Minn., soybean field recently caused a quarter-mile stretch of the land to collapse 25 feet, creating a long ravine, reported the Associated Press.
“Mother nature does what she wants,” said Erllene Erickson, who along with Wayne Erickson is the fourth generation on the Polk County family farm, according to WDAY-TV. She said seeing the ravine was scary and sad.
As of Thursday, the fallen land was crumbling into the nearby banks of the Red River, filling the water with dirt.
“When I drove out here, it looked like the Grand Canyon,” said Wayne Erickson. “We didn’t have all that slumping going on, it was just straight down. Straight up and down.”
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Geologists from the University of North Dakota said recent rains on top of previous dry weather and a reduction in Red River water levels, created conditions for the land collapse to occur. Storms rolled through parts of the state Thursday after extreme drought this summer.
Soil experts are expected to visit the site as more crevasses form and the land shifts, said the Associated Press.