I survived the I-15 closure

[Fedorgasm]

I got caught in this last week and it was so much worse than any news story made it sound.

Took me 13 hours to go 200 miles.

We were just stranded for long periods. It was 114 degrees so you either roasted to death or you let your car idle so you could run the A/C. There was no place to turn around. There were only a couple alternate routes which quickly became jammed up too because they couldn't handle the traffic.

People were running out of gas too.

To make matters worse, there were no bushes, so if anyone had to pee they had to just walk out however far they wanted and piss in the open where everyone could see.

Eventually we came across a gas station but it ran out gas. It took us about an hour just to get off the freeway and find this out.

Once traffic was kinda moving there was a rest stop. The trash cans were all overflowing with underwear. Didn't make sense to me but then my daughter said she thinks people peed their pants.

Fucking highway patrol failed big time. They were nowhere to be found. Their top priority should've been to direct traffic and keep it moving. I'm surprised I didn't hear of any heat stroke deaths from this.

 

[Pliny Pete]

Or maybe they shit themselves

 

[Uber_Noober]

That’s sucks big time, I’ve been stuck on the 15 south bound one Labor Day weekend coming home. 5 people in the truck, sitting in 111 degree heat a/c barely keeping up, was never so happy to get off that forsaken highway

 

[stalehotdog]

That sounds so awful. Really sucks you had to go through this. And there needs to be training or retraining for this scenario and people in the CHP need to get fired over this. What a shit show.

 

[GSP_37]

I was stuck in something similar years ago but for like several hours each time going shorter distance due to heavy load truck clipping an overpass and police couldn't be bothered to deploy via helicopter to contraflow some lanes. Cars abandoned and likely running out of gas.

It's easier to just do nothing and let people be stuck for several hours.

 

[Streeter]

I recently went 5 days without power. Was 90s outside an humid.. think I take being stuck in a car for a day over that but 114 degrees sounds rough too..

 

[GSP_37]

Did people strip off all their clothes to fight the heat?

 

[DaleBoca]

Once traffic was kinda moving there was a rest stop. The trash cans were all overflowing with underwear. Didn't make sense to me but then my daughter said she thinks people peed their pants.

 

[GSP_37]

^ One man's trash is another man's treasure...

 

[CrimsonFan]

That sucks man! Getting stuck in big traffic jams like that is the worst.

I remember years ago (I think the year after Katrina), we went to Marti Gras in New Orleans and got stuck on i-10 on a bridge going into the city for hours.

But it was Marti Gras, so everyone just popped their trunks and it turned into a huge party. Some guy next to us had all this liquor and was supplying everyone around us

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Where on I-5 was that?

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Traffic in Toronto is horrendous too. I have been thinking about moving to Tilt Cove, population: 4.

I feel there would be less traffic

 

[AFanNotAFighter]

Where on I-5 was that?

Between L.A. and Vegas. A very dull stretch of highway.

 

[Osculater]

I-15*

 

[Jack Reacheround]

I-15*

Ok, this is making a lot more sense now.

 

[boingyman]

Damn, that's way too long, especially in that heat! One time back in 2006 I was driving back to Napa from LA solo on I-5. I can't remember exactly where I was, but I was already past Bakersfield. Anyways the hwy came to a complete stop. I turned the radio to an AM station and something about a crazy accident shutdown the entire I-5 . This was before smart phones and I don't think I owned a GPS unit at the time. So I busted out a fucking map and starting to see what I could do. I saw Hwy 99 parallel to I-5 so I said fuck it and decided to flip a bitch on the large grass median. Got off at the next cut off and went all the way down until I hit 99. That cost me almost an extra 2 hours, but I can't imagine how long it would have taken if I just stayed in the traffic. Drove straight to the gym to bench with my powerlifting team. Everything felt heavy AF, but got in my reps!

 

[Jesus X]

Some one I knew had to take an alternate route to Vegas a 4 hr drive took them 10 hours they started at 6pm and got there like at 4am.

 

[zapataxiv]

I do that every year sometimes twice a year traveling for holidays in a country with a billion people can be a fucking headache
last time we spent 17 hours on the road fml

 

[RoastBeast]

Did you have to eat anyone to survive?

 

[Protectandserve]

I’ll be honest I’m legit surprised people didn’t fucking die of heat related shit being stuck out there like that.