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terrylamar
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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Location: Austin, TX
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: Stuck in traffic in Waco |
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| Post holiday traffic is always bad Dallas south to Austin. Tonight IH 35 is a parking lot. It took me about two hours to get to Waco, traffic, then I have been in Waco for 1.5 hours already, just sitting here. Some one ahead of me said there was an accident. This sucks!!! |
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yoopr
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| Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: Stuck in traffic in Waco |
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terrylamar wrote: Post holiday traffic is always bad Dallas south to Austin. Tonight IH 35 is a parking lot. It took me about two hours to get to Waco, traffic, then I have been in Waco for 1.5 hours already, just sitting here. Some one ahead of me said there was an accident. This sucks!!!
That isn't bad-Once it took me 2 hrs to make it from Plano to Carrollton and that's what? 20 miles? :P
Talk about Clutch leg lol |
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terrylamar
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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Location: Austin, TX
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| Finally made it home. It took 7.5 hours from Dallas to Austin, normally it only takes 3 hours. |
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Jackrabbit379
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Wichita Falls,Tx
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| Like tonight,on 82 going to Lubbock. Normally,you may drive for 30 minutes before you see anyone,tonight,it was like driving on 635 in Dallas. :shock: and more black n whites than you can shake a stick at. I guess all the college kiddos going back to Tech. |
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Windwalker
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Holiday, FL
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I've spent 8 hours just trying to get through Chicago. I think 6 of them were spent right in the "loop". |
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yoopr
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Windwalker wrote: I've spent 8 hours just trying to get through Chicago. I think 6 of them were spent right in the "loop".
That's when you turn on your CB and then take 294 around :P |
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terrylamar
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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Location: Austin, TX
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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yoopr wrote: Windwalker wrote: I've spent 8 hours just trying to get through Chicago. I think 6 of them were spent right in the "loop".
That's when you turn on your CB and then take 294 around :P
Yeah, I have another thread going about a CB I want. Obviously, I haven
t bought it yet. There are ways around Waco, if I only knew. |
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Yanke_driver
Joined: 13 Apr 2006
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Location: Winnipeg, Canada
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Windwalker wrote: I've spent 8 hours just trying to get through Chicago. I think 6 of them were spent right in the "loop".
When I drove through Chicago on the day before your thanksgiving I was headed east via the 294 and the 80/94. Got held up for about an hour. Traffic going west was backed up from the 290/294 split all the way to exit 6 at Burr st. in Indiana! We're talking dead stop here! That was probably one of the craziest traffic jams i've seen in my short time on the road. Very happy I was heading east because those guys heading west could have probably logged their 10 rest period sitting in that mess. |
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Windwalker
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Holiday, FL
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| The time I spent 8 hours going through Chicago WAS on 294. Winter, snowing, and a flatbed rolled it and lost a coil of steel down the road. It unrolled and went from one side of the road to the other. Passed a few cars in the process to, from what I understand. They had the coil to pick up or move over, and a number of cars to clean up after. From what I heard, downtown was no better. But, that was also about 10 years ago. |
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Rev.Vassago
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
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Location: The other side of the coin
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:21 am Post subject: |
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yoopr wrote: Windwalker wrote: I've spent 8 hours just trying to get through Chicago. I think 6 of them were spent right in the "loop".
That's when you turn on your CB and then take 294 around :P
How does turning on the CB take you from Downtown Chicago to the bypass? Does the CB have a teleportation device in it? :P |
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Useless
Joined: 08 Oct 2005
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Location: Canyon Lake, Tx.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:59 am Post subject: |
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quote="Windwalker"]I've spent 8 hours just trying to get through Chicago. I think 6 of them were spent right in the "loop".[/quote]
Yooper:
That's when you turn on your CB and then take 294 around :P[/quote]
The Rev:
How does turning on the CB take you from Downtown Chicago to the bypass? Does the CB have a teleportation device in it? :P[/quote]
Well Rev!!
Some of the newer ones do, but according to our resident know-it-all....err..... make that expert, DAWN, if you use it, but don't log it properly, then you could go to prison for manslaughter or murder!! If you don't believe me, then just check the regs for yourself!!
FMCA: 59385867-293985686.002
Any driver who shall incorpoate the use of a teletransporter in his C.B. Radio while traveling through Chicago or anywhere else had dammed for sure better log it the way Dawn says to log it, or he could get sent to prison for a logbook violation. TRUST ME!! I know what I'm talking about, and I know more that any of you. That means you, Rev. Vassago!!... and you too, Yooper!! |
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yoopr
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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Rev.Vassago wrote: yoopr wrote: Windwalker wrote: I've spent 8 hours just trying to get through Chicago. I think 6 of them were spent right in the "loop".
That's when you turn on your CB and then take 294 around :P
How does turning on the CB take you from Downtown Chicago to the bypass? Does the CB have a teleportation device in it? :P
Easy-You know they're all yacking on how the Loop is doing MILES before you even get close to it.
You don't have a teleportation device? :P |
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Teal 95 KW
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I live in Waco...what happened was a truck hauling produce tipped over, spilled the load all over the road. A local company brings out a crane to up-right the truck and move the middle barriers of the highway and ends up falling over on top of the Robinson Fire Department Fire Truck....and blocking off all lanes of traffic. Traffic jam lasted from about 11:15am until 11-ish in the evening. Backed up from Hillsboro, Tx. all the way down to Temple...figure about 70 miles. |
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