2006-10-11 05:53:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Leaving New Orleans the day before Katrina I drove for 14hrs. of traffic.
2006-10-11 06:01:33 · answer #1 · answered by Tommy G 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was caught on loop 610 in Houston during rush hour with a major accident. It took 3 hours to go 10 miles. The traffic jams from the storms last year make my little issue sound like a racetrack.
2006-10-11 06:01:39 · answer #2 · answered by david42 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Waiting to cross the GW Bridge - 2 hour backup.
Waiting to cross the Tappan Zee Bridge - 2 hour backup.
Waiting to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge - 90 minute backup
I try to avoid the ones that last for hours - sometimes driving 100 miles out of my way. Evacuating New Orleans or Houston would count as an extreme traffic jam - definitely.
2006-10-11 06:00:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was coming back home to Seattle after spending a weekend in the beautiful B.C. Canada. However, about 15 miles from the border the radio turned to an emergency broadcast saying that the border officials(who are not allowed to carry guns) left their posts because of intel saying a criminal was on his way. This allowed one lane of traffic for nearly 4 hours. I moved just under 3 miles in the final 3 and a half hours. It was horrible
2006-10-11 06:06:02 · answer #4 · answered by da boss 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, there was a tractor trailer wreck on the freeway on the way back from taking my son to school. Traffic was completely stopped, people out walking around their cars for hours. My dilemma? I was 7 months pregnant, and that means that I have to pee every 15 minutes!!!! I ended up having to put my SUV into 4 wheel drive "mode" and go through the wooded and uneven terrained center divide, turn around and drive over an hour the LONG way home!!!
2006-10-11 06:03:12 · answer #5 · answered by Sunshine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yesterday. In Los Angeles, Pico and San Vicente were blocked off due to a shooting earlier in the day. I made a right turn to somewhere. Followed cars through an alley. Somehow I ended up somewhere familiar.
2006-10-11 06:03:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I-40, North Carolina, Thanksgiving weekend 2003. 4 hours.
2006-10-11 06:03:27 · answer #7 · answered by Milana P 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Back in the '60's we were on our way to Los Angeles and ended up in the pile up that involved hundreds of cars. It's not something that I'd like to go through again.
2006-10-11 06:00:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not me, but my husband and son, it took them 7 hours to do 80 miles on the m40, a lorry had gone thru the central reservation.
They had our 2 dogs with them, you can imagine the frustration!!
2006-10-11 20:20:01 · answer #9 · answered by crofty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
98-myrtle beach. evacuation from hurricane bonnie. 4 hours to get from 21st ave s to waccamaw bridge on 501! along the way i got out & passed a football/tossed frisbee w/guys from a van next to us; listened to 2 complete brent lewis cds; smoked a pack of camels(i think they were camels-they had humps),and ate a giant pizza i bought from a parlor owner who was walkin the median sellin pizzas cause he couldnt get his car outa the parking lot!
2006-10-11 18:18:36 · answer #10 · answered by lizardhead 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋