these are the alerts for the highway 18 closure to Big Bear. For those of you who don't know Big Bear is completely snowed in. They are a large town of about 40,000 people. They can not get in or out because of snow. I found the Alerts funny and I had to post them to save for posterity. I guess it really was a great storm.
One of the funniest things I saw was cars driving up to the big closure and trying to decide what to do. They had driven 35 minutes and somehow expected they were going to get to Big Bear. Another thought.... I guess at the minimum you should stock up before the storm and plan on not having food for a few days after a major storm. Good thing I know about food storage and 72 hour kits.
BTW: read this in reverse order for the full effect...
Convoy has reached the Big Bear Dam
06:37 PM
Sat 1/23
The berms will be put back in place at Snow Valley and Big Bear Dam immediately after the convoy gets through.
06:36 PM
Sat 1/23
The convoy will come back {down?} at 0730 hours.
06:22 PM
Sat 1/23
From: 101-S3
To :CHP Dispatch
Big Bear SO has got the handle and taking the lead on this escort to Big Bear.
06:14 PM
Sat 1/23
From: 101-S3
To :CHP Dispatch
Advise Big Bear SO that the convoy is at Snow Valley.
06:07 PM
Sat 1/23
From: ROTW Thread
From: handygirl Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 06:03 PM A few minutes ago, one of the convoy trucks was stuck at the 330/18 interchange and had to get pulled by a CalTrans truck from the front and pushed by CHP from the back. They got him back on the road. Hope they get up to Big Bear! BTW, that was with chains on!
05:59 PM
Sat 1/23
From: RS Transcriber
05:56 PM
Sat 1/23
From: 101-S3
To :CHP Dispatch
The Convoy is now in Arrowbear.
05:48 PM
Sat 1/23
From: 101-S3
To :CHP Dispatch
Hold all traffic. No traffic out of Snow Valley. The convoy is moving again.
05:37 PM
Sat 1/23
From: 101-S3
To :CHP Dispatch
The convoy is temporarily stuck on the ice in Running Springs. We'll get this thing going in a bit.
05:23 PM
Sat 1/23
From: ROTW Thread
From: Coral Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 03:56 PM For your information. This was just released. Caltrans and CHP will be leading a convoy of trucks up 330 to 18 to deliver food, Red Cross supplies and fuel to the Big Bear Area.
05:21 PM
Sat 1/23
From: 101-21
To :CHP Dispatch
We still have people showing up at the closure trying to get to Big Bear via the 18 at Snow Valley. I'm not sure where they are getting through, but we need to make sure all units on the mountain know about the closure.
2 comments:
Are those alerts publicly available somewhere? I'm creating an open edit map of road conditions/closures in the San Bernardino Mtn. area. Mostly from listening to the scanner and people in the area via twitter and Facebook. Official alerts from the CHP would be helpful. Could you post a link please?
I got my information from rimoftheworld.net
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