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Anyone else get caught in that traffic jam on the way home?

#1 Post by tay666 »

As the title say, just curious if anyone else traveling north from the show today got stuck on 71?
We were at a standstill for almost 3 hours.

Which turned a 400 mile trip into 11 hours (thanks to even more issues in Columbus)
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That sucks Trevor! I'm glad I go home on I-64.
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#3 Post by NM 156 »

Wow... That sucks Trev!!!
I made it home to Central New Jersey
in that same amount of time.
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#4 Post by DinoMike »

Reminds me of my last Wonderfest. (2013) Headed south out of Louisville back to FL... highway turned into a parking lot for several hours. 18 wheeler wreck, trailer looked like crumbled foil that someone had roughly straightened back into trailer shape. (Then the Atlanta bypass exit ramp was blocked by another accident, I had to traverse downtown Atlanta while running low on gas.)

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#5 Post by AntMan »

Trev,

We actually got smart (Insert "lucky" here instead) and jumped onto
264 at 6 in the morning on Monday, subsequently getting onto 71 North a short time later.

I think we were well beyond that congestion and onto 70 at somewhere around 11:30.

It stinks that you were stuck for so long.
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#6 Post by tay666 »

Yeah, we don't leave that early.
I'm surprised we were on the road at 10.
Didn't get back to our room until somewhere around 3 AM.

Glad you missed the mess though.
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#7 Post by Jesse321 »

Going South we get detoured off I-75 because of an accident that closed down the whole highway.

We had to get off onto 120 and take I-10 back to I-75 South ... added an additional 3 hours to our drive. We would have gotten home at 11, but got there at 2AM.

But this was our best show EVER, so I'm not complaining.

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#8 Post by tay666 »

So you drove straight through again?

Thought you were going to stop for a rest. [taps foot while giving stern look]
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Yeap ... straight through.

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[shakes head]
What are we going to do with you?
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