Sunny Sra
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Larger one on my website
Over the last few days, I was following the potential path of the storm and noticed it would hit some of the places I visited last year (Hanksville, Shiprock, MV, 4 corners, etc). This year I wanted to be there when the storm hit to get something different. On 26th loaded up and headed out around 6:30 AM from LA...around 1.5 hour into the drive I start seeing sign of "Northbound i15 closed" ...it was a *** you mean it's closed...yep...Cajon Pass was closed due to ice and snow...and 100s of people were stranded, people were just parking their cars on the street...not on the side..on the street...waiting for the freeway to open. Radio was broadcasting how some people have been there for 5 hours...nope..not me. After driving around for 30 minutes to find an alternate...finally found one.
Backtracked on the i215 towards San Diego, got on i10 towards phoenix drove for several hours on the i10 and then cut across taking 177 (Desert Center) to 62E to 95 N and hit the i40 near needles...ok game on...we lost 4 hours but whatever...
If you like Indian food...like Asia India...stop by this little Indian food truck type place in Kingman (6035 E Minerva Ln, Kingman, AZ 86401), it's just past the Love's Gas Station, on the same exit. Good food, limited menu, but if you like something they'll make it fresh for you.
Around 5 PM...Just as you start the climb before Williams, we got hit with a lot of snow...almost whiteout conditions, we got ourselves behind a big rig and just followed him slowly...got stuck in a few traffic jams...an hour at a time just stopped...cars spun out, rental cars broke down, people getting stuck trying to get to the curb...it was like a movie action scene trying to get around, zig-zagging through traffic at 5 mph.
In Flagstaff, Hwy 89 is barely plowed, lots of snow and ice all the way to MV....we eventually arrived at around midnight...after 17 hours...ate our food that we got from the Indian restaurant and off we went to sleep...
Morning....whiteout conditions and we drove from Gouldings to MV. We were the only ones there with cameras out and standing in the cold, snow and wind gusts of 30mph...the mittens coming into view and disappearing within seconds...next time remind me to take snow pants and not just my quick dry ones...please.
Wind...and the crew trying to fix the roads (valley drive was closed for all 3 days due to ice)
https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?media/2019-12-28-06-27-22.3881/
Over the last few days, I was following the potential path of the storm and noticed it would hit some of the places I visited last year (Hanksville, Shiprock, MV, 4 corners, etc). This year I wanted to be there when the storm hit to get something different. On 26th loaded up and headed out around 6:30 AM from LA...around 1.5 hour into the drive I start seeing sign of "Northbound i15 closed" ...it was a *** you mean it's closed...yep...Cajon Pass was closed due to ice and snow...and 100s of people were stranded, people were just parking their cars on the street...not on the side..on the street...waiting for the freeway to open. Radio was broadcasting how some people have been there for 5 hours...nope..not me. After driving around for 30 minutes to find an alternate...finally found one.
Backtracked on the i215 towards San Diego, got on i10 towards phoenix drove for several hours on the i10 and then cut across taking 177 (Desert Center) to 62E to 95 N and hit the i40 near needles...ok game on...we lost 4 hours but whatever...
If you like Indian food...like Asia India...stop by this little Indian food truck type place in Kingman (6035 E Minerva Ln, Kingman, AZ 86401), it's just past the Love's Gas Station, on the same exit. Good food, limited menu, but if you like something they'll make it fresh for you.
Around 5 PM...Just as you start the climb before Williams, we got hit with a lot of snow...almost whiteout conditions, we got ourselves behind a big rig and just followed him slowly...got stuck in a few traffic jams...an hour at a time just stopped...cars spun out, rental cars broke down, people getting stuck trying to get to the curb...it was like a movie action scene trying to get around, zig-zagging through traffic at 5 mph.
In Flagstaff, Hwy 89 is barely plowed, lots of snow and ice all the way to MV....we eventually arrived at around midnight...after 17 hours...ate our food that we got from the Indian restaurant and off we went to sleep...
Morning....whiteout conditions and we drove from Gouldings to MV. We were the only ones there with cameras out and standing in the cold, snow and wind gusts of 30mph...the mittens coming into view and disappearing within seconds...next time remind me to take snow pants and not just my quick dry ones...please.
Wind...and the crew trying to fix the roads (valley drive was closed for all 3 days due to ice)
https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?media/2019-12-28-06-27-22.3881/
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