lol! "holy hand-grenades"! I'm gonna steal that expression, I love using expressions man. haha.
uh..well sir, every summer this happens to our lawns and those cracks vary in length from a couple feet to 15 feet so I will get some of them in one of my posts yes because for me at least, it's quite a phenomenon, I had never seen anything like it until we got here. We have a black clay soil and that stuff shifts and moves around and cracks, then when it rains it doesn't absorb into the ground so it floods everywhere! it's very strange..many people have foundation problems because of the shifting clay soil.
we're not officially in a drought yet but it does get hot and dry every summer like this..and today it's hitting 108, tomorrow it's supposed to be 110! that dries out the ground like crazy. ponds are going down fast too.