Wildfires
The trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles should have taken a little under four hours. It took eight hours, including three and a half hours in standstill traffic as I-15 and I-215 at San Bernadino was intermittently closed due to a huge wildfire burning in the area which had already destroyed several homes.
This is the first view we had of the fire, just a smoke plume in the distance.
Before long traffic ground to a halt. Turned on the radio to hear the announcer bellowing out a string of road closures and fire reports. This is one of 12 wildfires burning across seven counties in southern California, and it is still burning tonight.
In the picture above you can see the median strip on fire, with even the wooden posts holding up the crash barrier going up in flames.
Finally made it to Los Angeles with no problems, city is a bit smoke logged though!
2 comments:
wow scary photos!i'm flying into that particular disaster zone in two days! do you think there'd be any trouble with flying into la?
enjoy the rest of your trip!
Sarah - I don't know, i doubt there will be any trouble. I'm staying at the same motel here as last time, the sky is totally red but I can still see all the planes lining up to land at LAX. Should be sweet.
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