Post by Slim K team on Nov 4, 2007 20:09:04 GMT -8
[glow=red,2,300]California Incidents and Breaking News[/glow]
Story, Photos, Articles ... below!
November 04, 2007
as some of you may know or not, I bought a house in the Santa Clarita area - aprox. 30 min. out of the overcrowded Los Angeles (California) last September and moved in Oct. .. I must say that I really love it outhere, it's very peaceful and clean .. nice neighbors .. and the weather even warmer than L.A. ..
Anyway, 10 days (around Saturday Oct. 13th) later I had an important meeting to attend as I suddenly found the freeway 5 ENGLISH here (GERMAN here .. translation for Freeway 5) .. jammed in traffic like I've never ever seen in my life before ... I was stuck under the Lyons Ave. bridge Newhall area for hours and hours ... i spent the freakin' afternoon, evening until aprox. 11 pm .. that's where I was able to get out ... why? what happened you're askin' yourself? check below the reason!!! .. thank god I was stuck in traffic
[glow=red,2,300]In California, Fiery Crash Shuts Down an Interstate[/glow]
Incident pt 1 SANTA CLARITA, Calif., Oct. 14 — Traffic twisted into snarls on Sunday around one of the most essential interstates on the West Coast as officials scrambled to clear debris from a fiery, 31-vehicle crash that killed two adults and a baby in a heavily traveled tunnel in northern Los Angeles County.
The southbound lanes of the highway, Interstate 5, were to reopen on Monday morning, officials announced late Sunday. But a roughly two-mile-long northbound stretch was to remain closed until at least Tuesday, and commuters and transit officials braced for inevitable traffic headaches.
Engineers worked feverishly on Sunday afternoon to assess damage to the burned-out tunnel, which serves as a bypass to the main winding section of the freeway, the main north-south artery in California.
CONTINUE full Article ---> H E R E
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[glow=red,2,300]Nach Massenkarambolage wird Tunnel zu Inferno[/glow] (GERMAN ARTICLE) HERE
In einem Autobahntunnel zwischen Los Angeles und San Francisco an der US-Westküste sind 15 Lkw zusammengestoßen und teilweise in Flammen aufgegangen. Aus den Tunnelöffnungen schießen die Flammen 20 Meter hoch; zwei Menschen kamen ums Leben.
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PHOTOS taken by SLIM K on flickr. H E R E
then a week after that freeway thing on Sunday Oct. 21st around 3 pm a very warm clear skies sunny afternoon, I was sitting at my computer working .. suddenly the sky turned dark outside my window .. so I went out at my backyard to check .. good thing I had my camera with me.. photos below show a process of max. 15 min. ..
[glow=red,2,300]Half a million flee Southern California fires, 1,300 homes burn[/glow]
Incident pt 2 Deadly, wind-whipped wildfires have caused the largest evacuation in state history, forcing more than 500,000 people to flee ahead of flames that destroyed more than 1,300 homes and continued Tuesday to threaten tens of thousands more.
About 375,000 acres, or 585 square miles, were ablaze in Southern California. The number of people joining the mandatory exodus and the number of homes destroyed were expected to grow as new fires started and others continued to burn a path toward the sea through populated communities.
"This is the largest mass evacuation of a natural disaster in California history," said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
In San Diego County, authorities placed evacuation calls to 346,000 homes, said Luis Monteagudo, a spokesman for the county's emergency effort. The county estimates, based on census tracts, that approximately 560,000 people were ordered to leave.
CONTINUE full Article ---> H E R E - another Article HE R E
"California Burning" is the Second-biggest Story of 2007 READ HERE
PHOTOS taken by SLIM K on flickr H E R E
Story, Photos, Articles ... below!
November 04, 2007
as some of you may know or not, I bought a house in the Santa Clarita area - aprox. 30 min. out of the overcrowded Los Angeles (California) last September and moved in Oct. .. I must say that I really love it outhere, it's very peaceful and clean .. nice neighbors .. and the weather even warmer than L.A. ..
Anyway, 10 days (around Saturday Oct. 13th) later I had an important meeting to attend as I suddenly found the freeway 5 ENGLISH here (GERMAN here .. translation for Freeway 5) .. jammed in traffic like I've never ever seen in my life before ... I was stuck under the Lyons Ave. bridge Newhall area for hours and hours ... i spent the freakin' afternoon, evening until aprox. 11 pm .. that's where I was able to get out ... why? what happened you're askin' yourself? check below the reason!!! .. thank god I was stuck in traffic
[glow=red,2,300]In California, Fiery Crash Shuts Down an Interstate[/glow]
Incident pt 1 SANTA CLARITA, Calif., Oct. 14 — Traffic twisted into snarls on Sunday around one of the most essential interstates on the West Coast as officials scrambled to clear debris from a fiery, 31-vehicle crash that killed two adults and a baby in a heavily traveled tunnel in northern Los Angeles County.
The southbound lanes of the highway, Interstate 5, were to reopen on Monday morning, officials announced late Sunday. But a roughly two-mile-long northbound stretch was to remain closed until at least Tuesday, and commuters and transit officials braced for inevitable traffic headaches.
Engineers worked feverishly on Sunday afternoon to assess damage to the burned-out tunnel, which serves as a bypass to the main winding section of the freeway, the main north-south artery in California.
CONTINUE full Article ---> H E R E
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[glow=red,2,300]Nach Massenkarambolage wird Tunnel zu Inferno[/glow] (GERMAN ARTICLE) HEREIn einem Autobahntunnel zwischen Los Angeles und San Francisco an der US-Westküste sind 15 Lkw zusammengestoßen und teilweise in Flammen aufgegangen. Aus den Tunnelöffnungen schießen die Flammen 20 Meter hoch; zwei Menschen kamen ums Leben.
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PHOTOS taken by SLIM K on flickr. H E R E
then a week after that freeway thing on Sunday Oct. 21st around 3 pm a very warm clear skies sunny afternoon, I was sitting at my computer working .. suddenly the sky turned dark outside my window .. so I went out at my backyard to check .. good thing I had my camera with me.. photos below show a process of max. 15 min. ..
[glow=red,2,300]Half a million flee Southern California fires, 1,300 homes burn[/glow]
Incident pt 2 Deadly, wind-whipped wildfires have caused the largest evacuation in state history, forcing more than 500,000 people to flee ahead of flames that destroyed more than 1,300 homes and continued Tuesday to threaten tens of thousands more.
About 375,000 acres, or 585 square miles, were ablaze in Southern California. The number of people joining the mandatory exodus and the number of homes destroyed were expected to grow as new fires started and others continued to burn a path toward the sea through populated communities.
"This is the largest mass evacuation of a natural disaster in California history," said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
In San Diego County, authorities placed evacuation calls to 346,000 homes, said Luis Monteagudo, a spokesman for the county's emergency effort. The county estimates, based on census tracts, that approximately 560,000 people were ordered to leave.
CONTINUE full Article ---> H E R E - another Article HE R E
"California Burning" is the Second-biggest Story of 2007 READ HERE
PHOTOS taken by SLIM K on flickr H E R E