posted 01-10-2002 12:41 AM
An article from a newspaper: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One person was killed and at least 15 others injured on Thursday in a 78-vehicle pile-up during bad weather in a rural area outside the central Californian city of Bakersfield, police said.
"As best we can count right now there were 55 eastbound vehicles and 23 westbound, including several jackknifed big-rigs and a California Department of Corrections bus," said California Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Ted Eichman.
Eichman said one person was killed in the accident and 15 others were taken to local hospitals with injuries ranging from "minor to major."
"The best we know it was weather related," Eichman said, adding that what police first thought was heavy fog "now looks more like a low, heavy cloud" that moved through the area at the time of the accident.
"Officers at the scene said it looked more like a cloud," Eichman said. "Its unusual to get fog in that area."
He said the same cloud could be responsible for two other multiple-vehicle accidents near Bakersfield -- which is about 90 miles north of Los Angeles -- one involving nine cars and the other four.
Eichman said authorities did not know when they could reopen State Route 58, where the accident occurred but said it could take a long time to clear the scene.
"They were talking about getting at least the westbound side opened up but now I'm not so sure," he said. "It takes some time in that kind of weather." http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=HW5313DA4JB3MCRBAE0CFEYKEEATGIWD?type=topnews&StoryID=491027
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Now.. an interview with a witness to that strange day:
LA-REPORTER: I recently received a report of an odd occurance last night in the Santa Ana, CA area. I will forward you the details as soon as I check it out.
BARDSQUILL: coool
LA-REPORTER: I'm nervous. My birthday is on saturday and it's never a good time. :-)
BARDSQUILL: really? Mine on 17th, now I got reason to be nervous
LA-REPORTER: Happy Birthday to a fellow goat :-)
LA-REPORTER: Did you get any anomalous data around 1am-3am pacific last night?
BARDSQUILL: ummm noooooo, but getting tons of email and IMs that something bad wrong in LA
LA-REPORTER: as in Los Angeles? Of what sort of wrong?
LA-REPORTER: (friends and family there)
LA-REPORTER: I'll be right back. If you could give me an idea of what's going on there I might be able to get you more information.
LA-REPORTER: Unfortunately the report that I'm getting via email isn't going to arrive for a couple of hours.
BARDSQUILL: sorry, got side-tracked
LA-REPORTER: No problem.
BARDSQUILL: Started with some kind of weird glowing cloud last week, big pileup on Interstate
LA-REPORTER: Yes, I read about that.
BARDSQUILL: Now reports of heavy chemtrails, people acting drunk or glassy-eyed.
BARDSQUILL: stumbling around vacant
LA-REPORTER: We experienced that first hand driving northbound on the 5 and the 101 on Sunday night.
BARDSQUILL: that's it then
BARDSQUILL: you ain't alone
LA-REPORTER: Couldn't breathe. We both felt as though there wasn't enough oxygen. Cleared up once we hit the coast in Ventura.
LA-REPORTER: Would you like some more odd occurances to add to it?
BARDSQUILL: yep
LA-REPORTER: k. We'll go chron.
LA-REPORTER: Friday night we drove down to orange county. On the way down we noticed that most of the highway sign lights were off (the ones that light up the exit signs etc...) in addition, most of the big signs next to the highways were down.
LA-REPORTER: Sorry.....before that there was something also.
LA-REPORTER: We were in the Glendale area getting coffee with some old friends, and got a heavy scent of blood outside. It smelled like rotting blood, but not dead blood. Does that make sense? The scent was human, and it was the type of smell that someone with a very serious terminal illness would have. There was quite a lot of it. Not like someone had a bloody nose, more like a shipload of people got eviscerated.
LA-REPORTER: The person who was with me smelled it also.
LA-REPORTER: Another person in our group didn't smell blood, but smelled gauze and antiseptic. That is always a premanentory scent for him, so we decided to leave and continue our journey south.
LA-REPORTER: The route we took was the 210 east to the 605 south to the 405 south. Along the 210 and the 605 we noticed an odd fog, but that was about it. The sky wasn't red, but it was strange to see fog that far inland. As we were going down the 605 we noticed that one of the time/temp signs which was always on and accurate in the past, was instead displaying 00:00 as the time. This was cause for concern since most of those signs have a direct data feed to central time.
LA-REPORTER: It was at that point we began noticing the lack of lights etc.... There were numerous stalled cars on the road. Upon arrival in OC we noticed that it was way too quiet. Not the normal 3am quiet, but beyond that. No animal noises, no traffic noises etc... Strange enough that it set us on edge. There were also numerous visual anomalies, to the point of seeing ghost figures etc...
LA-REPORTER: That was friday night.
LA-REPORTER: Saturday we woke up edgy and off our game. (this refers to myself and another person) This continued all day. It was on Saturday that we got a call from a friend mentioning that he too had noticed the 'way too quiet' phenom.
LA-REPORTER: Sat. night was normal with the exception of everyone being on edge and exhausted.
LA-REPORTER: Sunday we went to a museum (which was packed) and then drove north. The route we took north was the 405 north to the 101 north.
BARDSQUILL: keep going
BARDSQUILL: listening
BARDSQUILL: important
LA-REPORTER: It was on this drive that we noticed the feeling of a lack of oxygen (to the point where we were considering picking up some oxy jump bottles but opted to wait it out) and a vague sense of unease.
LA-REPORTER: The person who was driving ended up asking me to take over after only an hour due to experiencing signs of extreme exhaustion, but without being tired (ie: visual sense loss, dizziness, spaciness etc...) We stopped for food and we both noticed that we were very very hostile. Not towards each other, but to those around us. We didn't act on the urges, just ate our food and left. At that point I took over the wheel and began experiencing the same problems, to the point where I had to pull over since I could not see the road. At that point the original driver took over again. We continued northbound on the 101 at about 80-85 mph, but were being passed by everyone. This was around 6-7pm, and we saw numerous "drunk" drivers. Far too early for such behavior. We eventually made it home and let out a sigh of relief. Unfortunately both the original driver and myself have been ill for the past two days.
LA-REPORTER: He was ill Sunday night/Monday morning, and I was ill all day yesterday. We both experienced the same thing: muscle cramping, swollen lymph nodes, sore throat, slight voice loss, fever, chills, and slight dizziness with sinus headache. On a side note we both experienced an immune response on Sunday night during the drive.
LA-REPORTER: So that brings us to today. http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/laweirdx.htm