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larry_scholnick@yahoo.com - 24 Oct 2007 01:14 GMT

Usually when we hear that a road in Southern California is closed due
to fire, we expect it to re-open in relatively short order when the
fire danger has passed. One obvious exception is the I-5 Truck Bypass
that will be closed for months until the the roadway through the
tunnel is rebuilt.

There is now another exception in the Santa Clarita area: Vasquez
Canyon Road. This road had (note the past tense, HAD) a wooden bridge
at each end of the 3.6 mile road. Those wooden bridges burned in the
fire yesterday; the road can't be reopened until new bridges are built.

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Scott in SoCal - 24 Oct 2007 15:57 GMT

Another unusual road closure: The 5 freeway in both directions near
the San Onofre nuclear plant was closed this morning because the power
lines that cross the freeway from the nuke plant had fallen down due
to a fire in Camp Pendleton. As I type this the southbound lanes have
reopened, but the northbound lanes are still closed.

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jgar the jorrible - 25 Oct 2007 02:07 GMT

> Another unusual road closure: The 5 freeway in both directions near
> the San Onofre nuclear plant was closed this morning because the power
> lines that cross the freeway from the nuke plant had fallen down due
> to a fire in Camp Pendleton. As I type this the southbound lanes have
> reopened, but the northbound lanes are still closed.

I heard it was closed as I started driving, they had just reopened SB
but not NB, turned around and went back home. Finally found on the
CHP site that it would be closed for 3-4 hours, didn't hear that on
the radio or sigalert.com for a while. So I decided to try 15. It
was fine until between Lake Elsinore and Corona - 10 miles took nearly
an hour because they were replacing some guardrail (plus I'm sure the
extra 5 traffic). Total commute took 2.5 hours, double normal, would
have only been an extra half hour or so had there not been that
problem. I had considered 74, but it looked smoked out.

It was kind of eerie driving through Rainbow, still smoking and
hotspots and retardant around houses.

I also saw several groups of CHP cars with some kinds of unmarked cars
(some with grill-lights, some with lights stuck on top) in various
places moving at high speed.

At one point, several cars went around some LLB on the 15 (Eclipse,
tinted windows), I started to but saw a B&W Blazer coming up fast. It
was indeed CHP, got right on the LLB, flashed headlights, LLB stayed
mulishly, finally the full XMAS lights, still the guy wouldn't get
over, finally he got over. Sheesh!

I heard the nuke plant went down over the weekend due to stuck water
valve http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20071024-9999-1b24power.html
. N/S lines down due to Campen fire, E/W lines now restored:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071024-0944-bn24power.html

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Scott in SoCal - 25 Oct 2007 15:29 GMT

>> Another unusual road closure: The 5 freeway in both directions near
>> the San Onofre nuclear plant was closed this morning because the power
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>CHP site that it would be closed for 3-4 hours, didn't hear that on
>the radio or sigalert.com for a while.

KNX said they kept the NB side closed to set some back-fires.

That's a MISERABLE place for a closure, since there are no convenient
alternate routes - not even a frontage road. Those people would have
had to double back to the 78 and cut across to the 15 before
proceeding north again.

>At one point, several cars went around some LLB on the 15 (Eclipse,
>tinted windows), I started to but saw a B&W Blazer coming up fast. It
>was indeed CHP, got right on the LLB, flashed headlights, LLB stayed
>mulishly, finally the full XMAS lights, still the guy wouldn't get
>over, finally he got over. Sheesh!

The oblivious fool moved over just as soon as he saw the disco lights.
Of course, since he only checks his mirrors once every 5 minutes... :)

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Yakra - 25 Oct 2007 06:58 GMT

On Oct 23, 8:14 pm, larry_scholn...@yahoo.com wrote:

> Usually when we hear that a road in Southern California is closed due
> to fire, we expect it to re-open in relatively short order when the
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> at each end of the 3.6 mile road. Those wooden bridges burned in the
> fire yesterday; the road can't be reopened until new bridges are built.

Google Maps has added a Map of California wildfire updates from KPBS:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&om=
1&msa=0&msid=114250687465160386813.00043d08ac31fe3357571&ll=32.990236,-116.73248
3&spn=1.234787,3.010254&z=9&num=1000&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-mapshpp-na-us
-mm&utm_medium=mapshpp&utm_term=fires

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