Fire updates LA @ MrJMW.com
September 29th, 2005
Well, traffic hasn’t been good the past few days….
Last night, The 118 freeway was closed (due to the fires), and the 101 was really bad because of it. So me and my car pool buddy decided to go to PCH and take the streets through West LA and Hollywood to get from Agoura Hills to Burbank. It took us over 2 hours to get home that way. Mostly because of street traffic in Hollywood. I don’t know if we would have got home faster on the 101 or not.
This morning me and my buddy headed off to work at about 7:15am as usual. I got a message from my mom saying that they were evacuating Agoura Hills and other areas due to the fires. I got in contact with my boss and let him know. We kept on heading for work until we heard that up by Kanan in Agoura Hills the freeway was a disaster. So we got off the freeway at the end of the SF Valley before heading up there. We stopped at a Starbucks in Woodland Hills and talked to a lady who said she was evacuated and that everybody from Agoura Hills had been getting phone calls all night long, saying to evacuate. Then we got a call from work saying not to come in today. So we headed back. And now, I have a manditory day off, (without pay I’m sure).
Hope they can get those brush fires under control soon..
