The problem in a nutshell

I was reading the previous news article and was thinking about this. If people come from Los Angeles, Orange County or San Diego County and get as far as Lancaster and Mojave then they are sort of committed unless they now go over Interstate 5 which I was told is now open. But, many of the roads between Mojave, Lancaster over to  Bakersfield apparently are not open because of cars and trucks in 6 to 20 feet deep mud and moving equipment has to move carefully not to destroy cars that aren't already destroyed by the mud that might be invisible because the mud is above the roofs of the vehicles. (Hopefully, nobody got trapped in one of these cars or trucks and is still in there). If so they would have suffocated already by this time. But, likely this is the reason all this is taking so long because of liability issues.

Just remember there are big highways available now like 101 that never closed along the coast and Interstate 5 (the main north south Artery) from San Diego north through Sacramento Portland, Seattle and up to Vancouver, Canada that is now open again over the Grapevine from Los Angeles north to Vancouver Canada now.