I camped out on I70 coming home from Indy's Brew Festival

[jefrey3]

The festival was good. Even though we had a place to stay in Indy with John's freinds, Corey & I decided to come on home. Big mistake. A fire on a bridge east of Terre Haute shut down I70. We could have exited at Brazil, but we didn't know of the problem until a few miles after the opportunity. It took us over 4 1/2 hours to get to the Riley exit. We tried driving on the shoulder to get to our exit, but several truckers just pulled over and shut down for the night blocking that escape route. Some cars were able to off road it and head back east, but we were in the right lane. This article says fire started around 6:00pm, we didn't pass the Brazil exit until after 8pm. Why weren't police getting traffic off of I70 east of the shut down. We did have some beer left over. We thought about retapping the kegs. Finally made it home a little after 3:00am.

http://www.wthitv.com/dpp/news/local/se ... mm-on-i-70

[Don]

Every single interstate in Atlanta will have construction work going on this weekend, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.
I wish I knew that before I went that way.

But I don't feel so bad now after hearing your delay, we spent 2 1/2 hours to go 15 miles heading north just south of Atlanta yesterday. The good state of Georgia decided it was time to rebuild the interstate where I-75 and I-285 meet. They closed 3 of the five lanes down for maintenance.
Got home at 1:30 am.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/28565774/detail.html

[psfred]

It appears that directing traffic isn't a police function any more.

Peter