I said it here when it first happened on Rte. 80 months ago: Really, Can’t We Admit It Already, Wharton Covers A Hellmouth? | FU I’m from Jersey. There is something nasty under NJ that’s just aching to get out.
This week, I read about roadway joints expanding in two areas on the southbound side of our wonderful thoroughfare, I-287 (for me, the road I travel in NJ I hate the most … and this beats Route 17!). We have surely been suffering through some mind-melting heat, so perhaps this has something to do with the current road buckling. But between what’s happened recently on Rte. 80 in Wharton with sinkholes appearing, and now this I-287 problem, I have to postulate my theory again that there is something under New Jersey.
And it be nasty!
And it wants out…now!
I might be prone to think this way, given my love for science fiction, being a fan of old monster movies (the picture that accompanies this piece is from the film It Came From Beneath The Sea). And I tend to think the worst before I do the best. Or you can take the ecologist’s stance to the extreme on what we have been doing to the planet for the past few years (sorry, I’m not smart enough to weigh in pro or con on these issues, nor do I care about any of them). So maybe what’s happening is simply the Earth rebelling. Whatever the case, roadways are becoming ever more dangerous to transverse in my beloved state, and it has always been damn dangerous to drive our roadways.
Now we have to not only worry about dodging terrible New Jersey drivers, but for whatever reason (although I think a big of octopus has finally woken from his slumber) the roads around my way are retaliating.
I’m just behind the wheel white-knuckling it, waiting for what’s coming next.
