Posted on 10/17/2015 4:11:21 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KABC) -- Hundreds of vehicles spanning approximately 10 miles are stuck Friday on State Route 58 near the 14 Freeway in Tehachapi due to flood road closures in the area.
The California Highway Patrol said there are a total of 192 vehicles stuck, including 115 passenger cars, 75 semi-trucks and two tour buses.
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Tehachapi pass is a very unforgiving bit of real estate.
Wild winds up there
Drought, fire, flood; rinse and repeat.
Watched a guy flying an ultra lite at 200 feet get snapped in a micro burst up there.
He almost hit the ground in a microsecond.
I thought the wings would snap off when he caught air like 10 feet off the ground.
We got him settled with margaritas and rode dirt bikes but that guy never flew again that weekend.
He’s prolly still scrubbing his shorts.
“Tehachapi pass is a very unforgiving bit of real estate.”
“Wild winds up there”
I really did not like driving down the Grapvine with half a dozen tractor-trailer rigs surrounding and pushing you down the grade in the middle of a snowstorm or heavy rain.
Yessir.
I hate that scenario
I used to know that little stretch of highway very well. I rode it on a motorcycle over a very cold Thanksgiving holiday once, many years ago, and drove it with some regularity.
Watch the video. Amazing.
LOL...driven every kind of rig that's ever been made...
Driven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighed...
I missed it by THAT much. GMTA!
Maybe none of this $h!t would have happened if Lowell George, Jerry Garcia, and John Wayne were still alive. :)
What I don't think I would do though, as the videographer/news reporter said that truckers stuck there said they would, if need be, would be to stay there for 2 days, if that's what it took.
If Eastbound, there is another way, although it's a long way around, and you'd have to pass the Southbound DOT scale near Wheeler Ridge before continuing on to Gorman to use CA 138 across to Lancaster.
If Westbound, the same could possibly be done in reverse, if 138 wasn't also suffering from flooded dry gulch washout over the road.
It travels along at higher elevation, so I tend to think it wouldn't be as likely to suffer flooding (but I could be wrong).
I've used that route more than once for a variety of reasons, in a private auto, commercial freight, and while motorcycling.
Ummm that area of road was shut down by Tejon because of a mudslide. Both sides of the freeway. I drove through there a couple of hours before the slide. They were supposed to have a lane open each way by now but that is some slow going. Guess I’ll sit on my boat in Ventura awhile longer til they get all the lanes open.
I don't think I'll be doing that again.
If I drive again, I'll refuse to allow myself to be put in that sort of situation.
Had to go the long way 'round a the Mormon chickenshak on Westbound I-70 once too, just to make a noon delivery in Salt Lake.
That one was do to the freight broker's manipulations.
I wasn't late for that delivery (although out-of-hours, and in violation of bypassing entry scales) and that broker STILL docked us some real $$$.
If I ever get face to face with those thieves, I just might break somebody's jaw.
Ok, that makes sense. The "Use Alternative Route" signage in the video was something of a State hoax then, lol.
Is there still a Hussings Cantina there (286 miles North of Ensanada the sign used to say, if I remember correctly) near the Harbor?
It's been a while since I was in Ventura.
Fished out of there a few times (commercial fishing delivery, then beginning a fresh trip from there) and have had vessels I was either crewing or running hauled out at the Boatyard.
Used a to have a Just Love t-shirt, but that was long ago.
That boatyard dropped a big 'ol boat once, right on it's side.
Jerry Hurt's 80' Holocaust.
I wasn't there to see it, but heard about it.
I crewed with Hurt on that rig, in my younger days.
That guy was what we call 'a screamer'.
Once I told him, "Hey Jerry. I don't care how you talk to me when we are out here on the back deck, but when you scream like, I can't understand a [--------] word you are saying."
That cured him, a little, lol.
Never heard of Hussings Cantina but I would bet it is where later Hi Cee’s was. Now shut down too. Ventura is still a commercial fishing town which helps keep it real so it hasn’t gone full blown tourist yet. Lol. We’ve had our boat here about 13 years and if it was up to me we would buy a bigger boat and live on it here. Can’t get hubby to agree though. Lol
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