Mono Monday 68 : : The Day of the Triffids

"... It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that 'it can't happen here' - that one's own little time and place is beyond cataclysms.  And now it was happening here.  Unless there should be some miracle I was looking on the beginning of the end of London - and very likely, it seemed, there were other men, not unlike me, who were looking on the beginning of the end of New York, Paris, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Bombay, and all the rest of the cities that were destined to go the way of those others under the jungle ..."
'The Day of the Triffids'  by  John Wyndham  1951

... many thanks to Dollykgray for hosting this month's wonderful Mono Monday  challenge