"The sea's relentless waves are like continually renewing sets of teeth gnawing at the land, and with over 221,000 miles of coastline in the world, that's a lot of nibbling.  But the sea is capable of more than just amphibious assaults: it can also penetrate the land through a series of air raids, as water from the oceans is air-lifted up into the atmosphere where it creates a formation of clouds that are ready to deploy their water cargo down on the rocks and the soil of this land at will.  The land invasion can come in varying degrees, from light rain raids through to heavy blanket bombings, randomly deployed throughout the year.  The resulting saturation causes the land to weather and erode, which in turn can cause devastating mud- and landslides." —Richard Horne, A is for Armageddon: A Catalogue of Disasters That May Culminate in the End of the World as We Know It (2010)

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