I was not happy to learn about dust explosions

the silo scene from A Quiet Place is all of my anxieties at once

WITNESS (Weir, 1985)

To be fair, this is just my quicksand nightmare with grains of food instead of sand

All these years we were worried about quicksand, when we should have been terrified of flowing grain

This is actually a pretty big hazard amd kills ~2 dozen people a year. Farming is dangerous as hell. extension.umn.edu/farm-safety/....

The Octopus, by Frank Norris - 1901

as a kid visiting Nova Scotia there was a saw mill with a huge sawdust pile and i was told never to play or climb it because i might disappear.