Re: I need to be faster with the camera phone!

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: The tunnel is about 1/4 mile long and the burning car was in the middle. 
(looked like an early '80s VW van) As I went past, the flames were getting 
higher and I quickly assessed the situation as I approached that the only 
person was away from the car and talking calmly on a cellphone on the upwind 
side of the scene. (if someone was inside, I would hope they would be waving 
their arms around trying to flag someone down. My fire extinguisher was 
already empty and I had my breathing apparatus at hope as I was using the 
cutting torch just before this trip to get a '93 YJ 2.5L with 5 speed and 
NP231 plus the whole injection harness) The cars that were stopped in the 
smoke were right outside the far end of the tunnel and people would've 
smashed into them if they didn't move. (as I almost did) All they could see 
from that point was thick acrid smoke and I sure as heck didn't want to 
smell it!


From: farna@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: I need to be faster with the camera phone!
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <ADVANCES62ZbLAX3cf300000058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah, the "rubber neck" effect! You're lucky you didn't try to go through 
about 10 minutes later!! If they were stopping to help it would be one 
thing, but most were likely stopping just to look. If 1-2 vehicles have 
already stopped to help more just backs traffic up even worse.


On June 20, 2005 Jim B wrote:

> I was driving across Lake Washington tonight and passed by a VW van on 
> fire
> in the tunnel on the West side of the bridge. (smoke was coming out the
> other side and I didn't see flames till I was 1/2 way into the tunnel) I
> tried to get a pic, but my camera phone wasn't ready before I was forced 
> to
> go past it due to heavy acrid smoke burning my eyes. Couldn't see more 
> than
> 5 feet ahead of my truck as I came out the other side and nearly bumped 
> into
> some others that banged into each other and stopped in the middle of the
> road (I screamed at them to move it because it was going to explode or 
> they
>

> would've waited there and blcoked other cars in the tunnel stupid people!)