Thanks, John, for the blue clicky. I try to make them, and they never click.

It finally dawned on me after the second reading that Mr. Scrivener had been mowing his lawn the day before the collapse. If his land had collapsed one day earlier, he might have plunged to his death. It gives me the shivers just to think about it.

I wonder what people will do now? I have no idea how the authorities cope which such openings in the long run.