Well -- Left Seattle at 10 AM and rolled into my home away from home at Willows at 11:45 PM.... Big fire on Mt Shasta and they had I-5 shut down.... You wouldn't believe the double parked line of trucks headed Northbound! OMG... stretched for miles!
So my Better lucky than smart saying still holds true! Pulled off at Weed to fill up -- and maybe grab a hotel since the detour was adding at least 3 to 4 hours to the trip... by the time I fueled and checked one hotel (no vacancy) I flipped on the Caltrans radio station and they JUST opened it back up! Jumped back on and it was like me and two other trucks the whole way! 5 minutes earlier I'd have detoured on Hiway 89 --- and would have been committed then! Wow! So darn lucky!
The smoke was choking thick and you could actually see big azz flames right on the road... so little wonder it was closed!
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