After beautiful conditions on Thursday |
A big storm moved in on Friday |
Just back at the bus from an excellent day of skiing at Northstar. It's 4:30pm. Snowing hard. And I-80 is closed due to a huge pileup. We're going to have to head South and take Highway 50 home. I gave Curtis a call to let him know we'd probably be in late.
16:30 Mar 18: On our way
17:50 Mar 18: Pulled over to check our chains and ... slid into another car that was checking chains. Fender bender for us - I didn't see the other car. No injuries. They had to take a full report, including individually recording the ID of everyone on the bus.
Curtis: I see chain control status is updated from road closure to "split control", so maybe you'll come back soon. Sent: 19:24 Mar 18
Jeanie: Or maybe. Not. Sent: 20:39 Mar 18
Jeanie: We went south around Tahoe
Jeanie: Then... we hit a car. :( no injuries but it took 2 hours to get going again. Sent: 20:41, Mar 18
Jeanie: We are just barely south of the lake
Curtis: :( hit a car? Sent: 20:41 Mar 18
Jeanie: Indeed.
Jeanie: Really nasty roads.
Curtis: Well, I hope the rest of your trip is OK.
Jeanie: Me too! Sent 20:43 Mar 18
Jeanie: We haven't moved in 20 minutes. Sent 21:05 Mar 18
Curtis: :(
Curtis: I'm not getting the glympse data. Might as well turn off the app to save your battery. Sent 21:11 Mar 18
Jeanie: Still Sitting. Sent: 21:34, Mar 18
Jeanie: I've been switching to airplane mode except to text youJeanie: Everyone else has squandered their batteries already. Sent 21:35 Mar 18
Jeanie: We're debating having a snowman building contest
Curtis: It looks like hwy 50 has chain control and i180 is closed now. Sent 21:36 Mar 18
Curtis: Well, don't squander your battery
Jeanie: We're turning around. Sent: 21:53 Mar 18
Curtis: i80 is closed and the south roads look bad still, as of 9:39.
Jeanie: I think we're going to spend the night somewhere.
Curtis: ;( Hopefully not on the bus!
Jeanie: They opened the road where we were waiting but they wouldn't let the bus through Sent: 21:57 March 18
Jeanie: No. Not on the bus.
Curtis: Well, let me know when you get somewhere warm.
Jeanie: Will do!
Curtis: Probably best that you're staying there. Lots of precipitation headed up both highways.
Jeanie: Safe in the hotel. Sent 23:01 Mar 18
Curtis: Yay! Sent 23:02 Mar 18
The next morning we had breakfast and were on our way at 8:30am.
Curtis: Hey, so are you on your way this morning? Sent 9:28 Mar 19
Jeanie: Taking the chains off! Sent 10:19 Mar 19
Curtis: Yay! Miss you.
Jeanie: Miss you too.
Jeanie: Trying to see where we are.
Jeanie: Can't tell.
Jeanie: Came down 50
Jeanie: eta is 1:30 to 2.
Curtis: Yay! Sent 10:28 Mar 19
Jeanie: Is our house flooded? Sent 12:30 Mar 19
Jeanie: We just saw 85 by our house is flooded.
Curtis: Ha, no, the rightmost lane at the shoreline exit has deep standing water.
Curtis: I actually called the highway patrol to report the problem. Its neat to see how that immediately shows up on Maps. But "flooding is an overstatement.
Jeanie: :)
Jeanie: So you are getting us all excited over nothing? Sent 12:39 Mar 19
Jeanie: We're out of movies. Road conditions are the best entertainment we've got. Sent 12:39 Mar 19
Jeanie: Oh my god. Sent 12:47 Mar 19
Jeanie: We seriously just got in another accident.
Jeanie: We're all ok
Curtis: Sorry, was on the phone. What happened? Sent 12:59 Mar 19
Jeanie:
Curtis: :(
Umm. Yep. Walnut Creek. One hour from home. Turning into a parking lot. The bus swings wide to make the turn; the box truck behind it passes us without slowing down; and the bus doesn't hesitate as it finishes the turn. I could see it coming ... The box of the truck clips the front of the bus. The windshield explodes. No injuries. But here we go again.
Curtis: Apparently there was an accident from that puddle that I called about :( 13:15 Mar 19
Jeanie: Police report goes so much quicker for your second accident in 24 hrs. They'll just copy our info from the NV report. Sent 13:59 Mar 19
Curtis: Geez... yeah, I guess so!
Jeanie: Woo hoo! 1:30 delay but we're back on the road Sent 14:21 Mar 19
Curtis: Yay! So everything is OK now?
Jeanie: Well... for me it is.
The bus pulled into Mountain View at 3:30 pm. So exhausted.
Ducks in the hotel swimming pool. |
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