An image that will forever stick in my mind is that of peasants overturning an apple cart in the narrow streets of Paris during a riot or revolution and blocking the street off entirely. Ms. Brinton made the reference so that students who had grown up in SLC, with its famously wide straight streets could appreciate the narrow roads of Europe. If only we had all been in St. George, we would already have known what she was taking about.
This morning, snow fell in St. George (second time this year) and a small bridge over the Fort Pierce Wash was slick enough that a car slid off into the guard rail or something like that. So we had dozens of flashing lights on the scene and River Road was closed off. I was forced to turn into a neighborhood, about 1 mile short of work. There is no way to get to work when that 100 feet of River Road is closed. No neighborhood to by pass it, no alternate road, no scenic route. The only option I could think of would be to turn around and drive the 3 miles back into St. George, drive all the way across town, get on the freeway, take the next exit and get back to River Road. That's about an 8 mile drive to bypass half a mile of River Road. Stuart has indicated that there are two other routes I could have taken, one by way of a sod farm that isn't really a public road, and another that goes through Arizona.
Next time I have any Parisian pals in town, I think we should turn over an apple cart and barricade off this part of town, then wait to see how long it would take anyone to get to us to shut down our revolution.
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