I-85 collapse in Atlanta

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Brent S

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I have been somewhat of a prepper for most of my life. Growing up in a hurricane prone area just made me realize you need to have some backup plans in place for disruptions in life. Well, here's one disruption I did not really see comming. I didn't expect to see the one major artery in Atlanta collapse from fire damage. It's just over 24 hours now and traffic is allready causing commutes that used to be 90 minutes to become 4+hours. Luckily I don't live very close to Atlanta. The bad news is we do a lot of work in the area. I'll post what I experience when I try to go there on Monday. It's going to take at a minimum of a couple months to get the interstate back together. I really feel for all the people that live in the area.
 
I-85 has a wreck near downtown every time I go through Atlanta. I hate going through Atlanta with a purple passion.
If you think it was bad before, just imagine the next three months ish..... I'm really dreading going there Monday.
 
And this is why i enjoy and love the little city.plenty of route's.including going cross country.
 
Can you just imagine the fire but was an ethnic with a history of drug abuse.
Namely crack cocaine.
Go figger.
I'm sure the po' man was driven to addiction because of white people.
Wanna bet his lawyers place the race card and the "po" addict card and try
to get the criminal sent of rehab in lieu of prison?
As a retired police officer I've SEEN that defense used.
It didn't work.
 
Can you just imagine the fire but was an ethnic with a history of drug abuse.
Namely crack cocaine.
Go figger.
I'm sure the po' man was driven to addiction because of white people.
Wanna bet his lawyers place the race card and the "po" addict card and try
to get the criminal sent of rehab in lieu of prison?
As a retired police officer I've SEEN that defense used.
It didn't work.

I'm lost... trying to figure where this belongs jeager with the original OP?
 
So, some homeless dude smoking crack caused 10's of millions of dollars in damage to a major hub in the south east. I bet Isis is taking notes....
 
I-85 has a wreck near downtown every time I go through Atlanta. I hate going through Atlanta with a purple passion.
You & me both, Doc. We've often driven right thru the middle of Hotlanta when visiting my wife's family in Tn. & south Fla. I hate it. Plus, somehow, we almost always seem to hit it right at rush hour. A couple of times, we even managed to blow a tire in that traffic. I can't begin to tell y'all how pleasant it is to dig everything out of the vehicle to get to the spare & jack on the side of THAT section of Interstate hiway. :mad:
 
The Interstates in Georgia are like spokes on a wheel, with the hub being the Atlanta "Perimeter" I-285. You can't go THROUGH Georgia without going THROUGH Atlanta. It's absolutely nuts! And now those chickens are coming home to roost. People just trying to go through Georgia will be bottled up on I-20 through Atlanta. And forget about bypassing I-20 by going around the north or south perimeter. It's all jammed up tight and will be for months.

In 2005 an Interstate 14 was proposed that went from Augusta, GA to Natchez, MS. It was later proposed to extend it halfway into Texas to Ft. Hood. Moving heavy military equipment like tanks from bases in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia to the east coast is a logistical nightmare right now.

I-14 would connect Fort Hood, Fort Polk, Camp Beauregard, Camp Shelby, Fort Benning, Robins AFB, and Fort Gordon by Interstate Highway. With access to Fort Bliss by I-10 and Fort Stewart by I-16. It would give a way to bypass Atlanta completely when going across Georgia, and it would run an East/West interstate through Montgomery, AL, Montgomery is the capital of Alabama, yet does not have an East/West interstate highway.

But they just keep talking and nothing happens...but maybe now it will get some traction...
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Well, good news from Atlanta, sort of. My Doctors appt was on the north side of the collapse, which is my side. As I got closer to the city on 85, the traffic got thinner and thinner. My exit was very close to the collapse, and there were hardly any cars on the hwy by then. Everyone had long exited to go around the closed section. That's the good news. The bad was where everyone was exiting 85 to get on 285, the main loop around the collapse. The backup was miles. The traffic on local roads was bad, but not the armegedden like I had envisioned. Luckily I wasn't traveling with the rush hour flows, but I made it in and out much easier than I thought I was going to. Several of the people I spoke with said their commutes were doubled from normal. I'm guessing this is the new normal.
 

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