Well, that was a massively tedious day. JUST as the facul...
Well, that was a massively tedious day. JUST as the faculty meeting in Woodland Hills was ending, word came that a brush-fire had broken out, basically right on top of the 405 Freeway, the carotid artery which connects the Valley (including Woodland Hills) with Los Angeles (including my house). This was at 4:30 pm - right on top of Rush Hour.
A Perfect Storm for a monster sig-alert in 102 degree weather, o joy.
Another faculty member who lives in that direction guided me through back-streets to Topanga Canyon Road, and I had a fast, beautiful drive through gorgeous canyons over a nearly empty southbound road, while the northbound lane to my left got thicker and thicker with traffic as people in LA took it to avoid the now-closed 405. I came out onto PCH - gorgeous ocean, light traffic heading south, gridlocked steel constipation northbound.
Once I got into LA itself traffic locked up on the surface streets (I wasn't getting NEAR the freeway), so it was about an hour's tedious thrash getting across town, but it could have been orders of magnitude worse. It had taken me nearly 2 hours thrashing in Friday-afternoon traffic to GET to Woodland Hills (up the 405 about 2 hours before the fire started). I took a nice walk.
When last I heard, the Getty Museum was in no immediate danger, but traffic is probably going to be mega-screwed until well into the night.
A Perfect Storm for a monster sig-alert in 102 degree weather, o joy.
Another faculty member who lives in that direction guided me through back-streets to Topanga Canyon Road, and I had a fast, beautiful drive through gorgeous canyons over a nearly empty southbound road, while the northbound lane to my left got thicker and thicker with traffic as people in LA took it to avoid the now-closed 405. I came out onto PCH - gorgeous ocean, light traffic heading south, gridlocked steel constipation northbound.
Once I got into LA itself traffic locked up on the surface streets (I wasn't getting NEAR the freeway), so it was about an hour's tedious thrash getting across town, but it could have been orders of magnitude worse. It had taken me nearly 2 hours thrashing in Friday-afternoon traffic to GET to Woodland Hills (up the 405 about 2 hours before the fire started). I took a nice walk.
When last I heard, the Getty Museum was in no immediate danger, but traffic is probably going to be mega-screwed until well into the night.
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