Belly-dumper

Or it wasn't until they woke up one morning and found the encroaching wave of tarmac lapping at their doorstep and a belly-dumper burying the lot next door in a mound of gravel, preparatory to the erection of the next Costco.

It leads me to think of Tom Flood, and his mother Dorothy who grew up in this territory, who set the dead sea of wheat against itself, growing green under the sapping sun long before belly-dumpers and tip-trucks rolled along this road.

It's like a huge belly-dumper dropped several loads in the canyon, leaving a 0.5-mile stretch 10 feet deep with gravel.