Posted on 10/12/2007 11:19:43 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
No worries, the first half should be pretty boring...too much on the line to take risks early.
‘Flash starts in the second row so Hope he can get out front and ride safely.
Later.
I’m on the EQ ping list also - only because my daughter still lives in California. I’m thnakful I don’t have to worry about that anymore.
Contractor: C C Meyers: Same guy that rebuilt the Santa Monica Freeway after the 1994 quake wiped it out. He also built the Lowe’s Speedway in Charlotte used for NASCAR races.
He’s a hell of a guy- Goes in and OVERBUILDS so that he doesn’t have to piddle around with the Cal-Trans engineers over a 1/4 inch of something here or there. He throws massive numbers of workers and larger re-bar and more concrete and just GETS IT DONE.
I think it was only 19 days or so that he repaired the 580/880 intersection that collapsed in SF.
7-10 mile backups in each direction...
That is a post of hope.
Don’t want to intrude...just bumping for the FReepathon!
Now I feel real small about the grilled chicken and salad meals prior to the story developing.
Ack.
Can CalTrans divert traffic buy removing some of the highway center divide?
You are a busy thon man.
I betcha 90% of the posters on this thread are aleady donors.
Hey find an Oregon thread (my state) and put up one of those.
Get’s old bieng low on the giving list every quarter/year.
Yup, rain. Nobody in LA can drive in the rain and the greenies wont let them build new, safer roads.”
No such think, IMO, as a safer road when lots of the “drivers” were poking a donkey a month ago somewhere south of the border.....
Knowing Vons they will put that on my store’s shelf about Tuesday
I like how KABC 7 just led with the Fake Breaking News graphic.
16 hours old...
good grief
“I betcha 90% of the posters on this thread are aleady donors.
Hey find an Oregon thread (my state) and put up one of those.”
Yep, I was in on it last night, and got the spam mail too (lol). I’m glad to see that’s all sorted out now, because I wasn’t sure what I could’ve said that would have irritated that person, but I didn’t care and was just about to send a GFY reply :))
Will do on the Oregon idea, thanks!
What about dry hills in the area regarding the tunnel fire sparking wildfires”
It’s been raining for hours. It’s all wet, and probably cannot get any fires started or pushed.
For those that are wondering what’s still burning in there - there’s a fuel tanker at the core of the fire, and of course there’s all the fuel from the other crashed trucks, the rubber tires on said trucks (good luck putting those out), the resin for the carbon fiber truck noses (some modern rigs have the cab and front constructed out of carbon fiber to reduce weight), the fiberglas of the other trucks... There’s a LOT to burn in there.
Don’t feel badly about the salads. You’re just eating the foods Americans want to eat. :)
I doubt they can divert traffic that way for long. The actual interchanges are all bridges and flyaway ramps & stuff. The transition from southbound I-5 to northbound SR-14 makes me really nervous on a good day. I hate that thing.
Radio says CHP has closed the on-ramps from McBean, Lyons, Magic Mountain Pkwy, & Valencia Blvd. Getting around Valencia today must be a real treat.
Yes, and they’ll start charging $5/head for it due to ‘transportation irregularities’ by this afternoon.
Yup. And because he gets the job done so fast, he gets a massive bonus for early completion - which more than pays for the extra cost involved in making a structure 2 or 3 times as strong as CalTrans wanted it.
Oh yeah, just a little while ago people were driving the wrong way on the 5 all the way up at Magic Mtn Parkway....it is insanity.
And the people they interview are complaining that the info isnt in spanish. or it isnt being read to them...as a lot of our guests from the south cant read espanol either.
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