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I was driving from Richmond, VA to Baltimore for a Jethro Tull concert in early '88 I think it was. When I hit the road it started snowing. By the time I got to DC the traffic was slowing down. Once I got on the beltway it stopped completely. It turned out that the bridge over the Potomac was closed because of ice.
There were a lot of trucks and they tended to keep a lot of gaps, but they also didn't move hardly at all. I was able to crawl along little by little. I was there for five hours. Obviously I missed the concert and that did not improve my mood.
Finally there was enough of a gap I was able to get to an off ramp into Alexandria so I could buy gas (whew!) and get back home. I had to call out of work the next day because I was wiped out.
I don't have any tips other than conserve your gas.
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The only time I've really been stuck on the freeway was in Victorville, CA on I-15. Someone was threatening to jump off a highway overpass, so they shut down the whole freeway for like 3 hours in the middle of the night.
After about 2 hours there was about a thousand of us ready to push the son of a... off the bridge ourselves!
When I lived in California, I was stuck in a number of traffic jams. The worst was when a crane fell across the 405, right before the 101 exit (a big freeway in LA). I was stuck in a jam for 3 1/2 hours, which includes getting off the freeway and trying to take service roads. Ugh, that was a nightmare.
And in New York, about 1.5 years ago, there was a random snow storm that happened at the beginning of November after Superstorm Sandy. I lived about 20 miles from home from where I was working and it took me 4 hours to get home that day because the snow was coming down so hard.
When I lived in California, I was stuck in a number of traffic jams. The worst was when a crane fell across the 405, right before the 101 exit (a big freeway in LA). I was stuck in a jam for 3 1/2 hours, which includes getting off the freeway and trying to take service roads. Ugh, that was a nightmare.
And in New York, about 1.5 years ago, there was a random snow storm that happened at the beginning of November after Superstorm Sandy. I lived about 20 miles from home from where I was working and it took me 4 hours to get home that day because the snow was coming down so hard.
I feel your pain, really!
I think this making me even more aware to keep water, not in plastc, in my car.
And I just have to rotate my food....since my roasted peanuts got rancid...afterall, the jar
is in there all summer!! No more of that.
........to keep water, not in plastc, in my car...........
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Miss Hepburn, if you live where it freezes, you can not keep water in glass in your car. When the water freezes and expands, the glass will break. Freezing water will also split some of the metal containers.
I suggest that if you are worried about food going off, then don't store food in the car. Keep you emergency food in a go bag by your exit door and simply pick it up and take it with you each time.
I don't keep food in my car because that encourages the field mice to climb into the car. They are a big enough problem as it is.
I rarely carry food in my car. Any person living in the USA can easily live for two weeks without food. Some of us could live six months without food. Water, on the other hand, is much more difficult to do without.
Thanks....I have stainless steel hiking type water bottles...glass is a no-no.
My arms are too full as it is going out the door...I will just rotate a can of nuts,
checking them periodically for rancidity.
Being stuck for just hours?
It is WAY more for fun munching on salty peanuts or almonds...
"need" wasn't in my mind so much...comfort was....unless my car is in a snowbank for days!
Gridlocked in downtown L.A. at 5 p.m. one Friday.
Not entirely unexpected (was sent downtown to pick up original paperwork)
but it was a sign from the Gods to get out of town.
And so I left.
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I've parked in Atlanta on Spaghetti Junction (I-285/85). After 1 1/2 or 2 hours we got 30 minutes down the road. All due to rain, no snow. A guy changing a tire on I-75 will slow you down for 30 minutes minimum. Not always weather related there.
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