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"The hills look burnt," he said, adding that peatland, usually wet and boggy, "is now crunchy" underfoot.

They took a toll, onerously so, like an undertow at the ocean shoreline that yanks you down into the muddy sand underfoot, and my debt more than quadrupled.

In no time at all, Amy is wandering the halls, peeking in on patients, getting underfoot.

Remnants of desiccated hay crunched underfoot, and the sun-baked soil was fragmented with deep cracks.

"As soon as people arrived on the scene, their use of the cave was very intensive, with clear evidence of burning and trampling of the shelter floor underfoot."