Testing The App Waters

I tried posting a picture of possible highway death from my collection of "Highway Death Scenarios" snapshots. In this instance, a dump truck hauling a long trailer bearing a yellow Caterpillar front loader. Oh, and the wheels are spewing rainwater with a vengeance. But this Blogger app has a bug which prevents me from attaching images. So, trust my imagery.

The roads, both coming and going, are bogged down with questionable trucks, cars, SUV's and their iffy cargo. One can't help but wonder -- with the encouragement of a vivid but not fearful, merely curious, imagination -- what might occur if an axle or bolt or wheel was to slip! But do the drivers of said murderous conveyances have any inkling as to the loads they carry and the suggestion of sudden impalement, decapitation, evisceration, crushing and flat out blacktop mayhem they represent? Methinks not! That's why there's folks like me to alert the masses. There's simply not enough awareness, or paranoia in some cases, to go around without the social goodness broadcasting done by PHDSW's around the world (that's 'Possible Highway Death Scenario Watchers' for the uninitiated). I mean, surely there's more than this one reluctant suburbanite over here in Middle Tennessee, U.S. of A.?

I guarantee you that once your eyes have been opened, you'll never again look at a truckload of logs in the same casual way. At every exit and mile marker, the supposedly unassuming administrators of death will loom large. Take note. Play defense on the interstates! Spread the word. Protect yourselves during those holiday travels for the sake of your loved ones and good times awaiting on the other end of the line-dotted macadam. And if you want, snap a few pics (only as a passenger, lest YOU become a PHDS), and send 'em my way for my ever growing portfolio.

This has been a test of the Blogger iPhone app. If this was a real emergency post, the highway patrol would be notified and on the scene shortly.

In the meantime, play it safe and operate your own vehicle several car-lengths behind tractors, trailers, wide loads and their road-traveling ilk!