At least three carloads of people I know were stuck in this massive traffic jam on the Westbound I-10 last Sunday. One of those cars held my dear husband and his umpire buddy who had called two games out in Palm Desert and were headed home at 2:30. Normally I would have expected him to be home before 5, but he didn't even get to our house until 7:30 - making his commute 5 hours. Two people in our book club who were hiking in Palm Springs that morning never made it to the discussion.
Was it an accident? No. It was a huge error on Caltrans' part, as explained in this front-page
LA Times article today. One take-away message was that we should make sure that our earthquake supplies are up-to-date since in the event of an emergency, people are not getting out of here very fast.
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Thank you so much for posting this . . . it took us 6 hours to get home from Palm Desert. Since then, my 18 mo old has cried every time I put her in the car seat :-(
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