The Best Laid Plans - Trucks, Planes and Rain, Don't Mix

Yesterday was supposed to be a day for me and my son to enjoy the Miramar Air Show together. Miramar used to be the air base that housed the "Top Gun" school that was captured so wonderfully (cue the song "Danger Zone") in the Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun". More then the air show, I was excited to see the base itself. Unfortunately for us, an overnight rainstorm passed through our area of the state, which brought conditions that might have had an effect on the Air Show. The final nail in the coffin was the fact that late night on Friday something like 15 trucks and cars collided inside the truck tunnel that snakes under the Golden State Freeway (I-5) in the middle of the Newhall Pass. This is the same pass that takes a major hit in Earthquakes and then cuts off my area of the world, from the greater Los Angeles area. I was willing to try to get out, but my son thought it all out logically and came to the conclusion that a marginal Air Show was not worth the huge unpredictible amount of time it was going to take to get by an inferno in the middle of the Newhall Pass. He checked out flying conditions in San Diego and nixed the entire days plans. Probably correctly, I might add. We went out on a local errand around 1PM and hit bumper to bumper traffic just around our neighborhoods, probably caused by the closing of the freeway. We quickly finished our errands and moved back to the safety and quiet of our home. We were supposed to drive over to Van Nuys today for his flying lesson, but that was canceled due to the plane being in for repair. A good thing in this case, because we don't know when life will get better for Newhall Pass travelers. Thank goodness I take the train to work. It's not going to be pretty on Monday.

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Photo is from
the Edwards AFB
Air Show in 2005