That's how witnesses described feeling after three people slipped into the foamy waters of the Big Sioux River, in the middle of a Sioux Falls park.
The drama unfolded Thursday evening amidst the 123 acres of Falls Park, which is named -- like the city of Sioux Falls itself -- for the series of picturesque Big Sioux River waterfalls that run through it.
The falls straddle the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, in the heart of two national parks -- the Mosi-oa-Tunya park on the Zambian side and the Victoria Falls park in Zimbabwe, which collectively form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The other four pieces are Let's Twist Again by Malcolm Robertson on the Newtownards Road, Sweet Water Arch by Denis O'Connor and Bernie Rutter at Stranmillis, Winding the Warp by Jason Mulligan marking the entrance to the Oldpark, and Spirit of Hedge and Hound by Martin Heron at Falls Park.
The last few hundred can only be found in a few protected areas in Kenya and in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda.
Below the 68ft-tall Cumberland Falls, about 110 miles south of Lexington in Cumberland Falls State Park, there are simple places to practice white water rafting -- most of the rapids are Class II or Class III, and the rapids are well spaced out.
The most iconic landmarks in their area are the Aberdulais Falls and Margam Park.
For example, last April we created a :30 public service announcement featuring a couple from Park Falls, Wisconsin.
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About a third of those live in the town of Minehead, but much of the authority's 280 sq miles of coast and countryside falls within Exmoor National Park.
Thanks to the parks movement, Niagara has enjoyed public protection since the 1880s when it became a state park, and just four years ago, the US designated Niagara Falls a heritage area under the National Park Service.
Yosemite offers visitors spectacular views of mountains, falls and rivers, but park officials warn visitors to be careful.
As evening falls, the car-park comes alive.
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It falls within the Brecon Beacons National Park and passes through Clydach George.
From there, an easy 10-minute hike to the falls takes you through Kaiteur National Park, where you are unlikely to see other groups of tourists but you can catch a glimpse toucans, macaws and golden tree frogs.
Finding Falls: This Alberta, Canada cache, sponsored by Waterton Lakes National Park, involves a relaxing stroll along Cameron Creek with the reward of picturesque white-water falls at the end.
Crispus Attucks Park, like most neighborhoods, falls in the extremely broad middle between these two extremes.
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After arriving in Minnesota, the President will host a town hall event in Cannon Falls, Minnesota at Lower Hannah's Bend Park.
They have hammocks where walls should be, plunge pools, and water-park bathrooms with rock-walled showers where water falls out of the stones-- though after bush showers on safari, we would have been delighted by water running out of anything.
When Iguazu National Park decided to build a train going up to the world famous Iguazu Falls, some of the most breathtaking waterfalls in the world, in the late 1990s, environmentalists were concerned.
The relatives of John Knowles, who had suffered rib injuries in falls at his home in Edgware, say that the closure of another casualty department nearby has placed Northwick Park under "incredible pressure".
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