iRide.2020.02.29 Triffids

Long ago and faraway, whenever road-building contractors put up 'HEAVY PLANT CROSSING' signs, some wag would always write in the inevitable grime that accumulated, 'BEWARE TRIFFIDS!' I remember reading the book and then being disappointed in the 'with-one-bound-they-were-free' ending of the movie that was a very loose adaptation of the original story. I confess that I was hoping the triffids would win by exterminating humanity.

It was a a heavy-plant-crossing kind of day up at the Sand Hollow North cattle guard: huge low-loader trucks were arriving with earthmoving equipment that was presumably assembling to start work on the SR7 extension road through to SR9 just west of Hurricane.

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