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Originally posted by gypsygirl yeah i know wasn't thinking clearly when i got home this morning and just so frustrated about it

So, can I call you?

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Originally posted by whiskers pulp is gross, it feels like i'm swallowing someone's load

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Originally posted by Emil So, can I call you?

sure did you find my phone?

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Originally posted by gypsygirl sure did you find my phone?

No, but you haven't edited your first post yet.

Did DaveT respond to you yet?

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Originally posted by Emil No, but you haven't edited your first post yet. Did DaveT respond to you yet?

no not yet

I may be stating the obvious, but... didn't someone answer when you called the phone??

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Originally posted by philippe I may be stating the obvious, but... didn't someone answer when you called the phone??

no i tried it went straight to voicemail which is weird b/c i had it turned on all night!

okay all i have to say is dave and michelle are the best!!!!! they found my phone and they said it was like in 3 pieces in 3 different spots so it's a festivus miracle that they found it all and pieced it together!

so crisis adverted and i got my phone back.

so thank you thank you thank you dave and michelle, your guys rock!

i listened to my messages and i had a person i didn't recognize telling me to come by their hotel room to say hi b/c they couldn't sleep and my phone didn't record the number, so random, oh well and they called me ms. barry so it wasn't a wrong number

Yay!!!


Once I lost my phone at a party, and I call it a day later, and a construction worker named "Po" had found my phone, and he wanted to give it back to me... so I told him I would buy him dinner wherever he wanted. He told me to meet at this place, so I took this bus where he told me to. It was out in the middle of freaking no where. He never showed. Racked up phone calls all over US and canada. not good. phone = cancled.

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Originally posted by gypsygirl okay all i have to say is dave and michelle are the best!!!!! they found my phone and they said it was like in 3 pieces in 3 different spots so it's a festivus miracle that they found it all and pieced it together! so crisis adverted and i got my phone back. so thank you thank you thank you dave and michelle, your guys rock! i listened to my messages and i had a person i didn't recognize telling me to come by their hotel room to say hi b/c they couldn't sleep and my phone didn't record the number, so random, oh well and they called me ms. barry so it wasn't a wrong number

YAY so glad you got ypur phone back!!!

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Glad we could help...was the last smooth part in our journey from hell back to San Francisco.

Left at 1:30pm, got back in SF at 11:30pm

We got to gypsygirl's place at about 2:20pm and no issues...got back to I-405 (I am not from Socal. I will not call it "the 405" ) and then to I-5 with no issues....once we started going through the hills, though, traffic basically haulted...to like 5-15mph, most of the way through. It sucked.....Anyway, get past all that then get on the grapvine, and holy crap!!!

I-5 was WINDYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! I would say 50-60mph winds (constant -- going by experience in tropical storms/hurricanes growing up in Florida) with gusts up to 80mph....had just passed a major gas stop area near Bakersfield not worrying about filling up because I wanted to get to the next set of gas stations because they generally are much cheaper...but a mile past the stopped we just passed, I-5 was CLOSED ... worrying that I'd never make it on gas, I did a bitch moved, went across the median , and busted a U-turn and went back and filled up at the stopped we just passed.

So we sit at the gas station seeing all kinds stuff flying everywhere, thinking the gas-overhang was about to fall over waiting for the highway to open back up but no sign of it happening. This was at about 3:30pm.

So we start asking around if there are any side roads we can take to get way down the I-5. While asking around, we found out a tour bus had overturned and that there was some other accident on I-5 North. Anyhow, we get directions for a backroute and on our way we went. But on our way we get to an intersection a poll had fallen over...power lines laying across the right. But there were a few semis who seemingly knew ways back to I-5 so we turned a right and followed them. After about 25 minutes we actually did find our way back to I-5 and we could get on it. WHOOT! Was weird, though -- no one else was it!

At this point we noticed I-5 SOUTH was closed (since there was no traffic going south ). Why? A fully loaded semi toppled over blocking both lanes. Tow trucks not even trying to do anything because the rig is too heavy...we kept moving on up north. What was funny is every once in awhile, we could see other people trying to cross the median to turn around, but getting stuck because the median because it was full of water and mud! There are those little built in u-turns about every 1000 feet for cops to use that they could have easily used, but noooo...they though their cars could make it through the water puddles and mud...but didn't. It must have really sucked for them because they were stuck and the highways were backed up for miles upon miles so getting help would take hours.

We continue going north and at exits about 20 miles apart, all traffic southbound was being forced to get off....noticed this at about 5 or 6 spots.

I am lucky to get above 65mph because everyone is going slow because of the high winds knocking everyone around.

So we get to Coalinga and the highway signs say "warning: congestion ahead. prepare to stop..." so I'm like, SHIT!!! So I decide to get off at what luckily is the perfect stop because we can get dinner at Denny's or something...good thing because when we were exiting, we could see the highway was closed maybe a mile ahead so we would have been stuck! This was another exit I-5 south traffic was being forced to get off.

So we go to Denny's, waiting about 20-30 minutes to get seated, take another 30 minutes to get our food and eat. We found out from people who worked at Denny's that all I-5 traffic (both directions at the time) was being diverted to some highway that was well east. Highway 99 or something.

Anyway, we finish eating and head out, I-5 north is opened! Whoo! I-5 south, still closed.

The ride the rest of the way was pretty smooth. Soon after getting back on I-5 north, we finally figured out the highway updates radio stations, AM530 or AM1620. This was after 8:45pm. Turn it on, I-5 south is completely shut down in five spot south bound because of accidents/overturned trucks and downed powerlines. I-5 north is still shutdown way down near burbank....this was over 5 hours later people!!! Thank goodness we figured out the side route, or we'd be stuck down there still!

Anyhow, got back safely at about 11:30pm. Winds were crazy the entire ride except maybe the last 45 minutes of it. Cars wrecked on the side of the road all over the place. Felt like I was in a tropical storm...without the storm, really (not much rain involved with all this wind...oh man, how that would have been so much worse!).

I-5 north way down in Bakersfield finally reopened ... at 11:45pm. YIKES. If I hadn't done the u-turn, I would probably be on the highway way down there somewhere. Yikes.

The issue I am having right now is that my balace is messed up. Ever been on a cruise ship or a huge boat that slowly sways. Then you might know what I mean. For some people, their inner-ear balace has to adjust so much on huge ships that when you get off your inner-ear balace once again takes awhile to adjust to not swaying side-to-side. While it does this, your balace is a bit of whack and you feel like you are moving from side to side still. From our car being pushed around so much from the wind, and having to get control of the car so much, I am having this issue now. I hate it!

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wow i'm so sorry you guys had to go through that, how crazy is that and frustrating! glad you guys made okay though without injury or your car getting damaged.