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Kali

(55,014 posts)
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 10:03 PM Mar 2023

eastbount I-10 is backed up at least 3 miles in Texas Canyon

no, you can't get past the wreck by driving up Touchstone Trail. you will get a 10 mile round trip back to Sybil Road if you try it. nobody cares what your GPS says. it is wrong.

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eastbount I-10 is backed up at least 3 miles in Texas Canyon (Original Post) Kali Mar 2023 OP
OMG a semi just went where we don't take a 4x anymore Kali Mar 2023 #1
I drive a box truck through Texas Canyon a couple of times a month. TurboDem Mar 2023 #2
I'm the steel roof down in the bottom around 317. Kali Mar 2023 #10
LOL! next day Kali Mar 2023 #3
Looks like the driver was delivering components for the wall. Ptah Mar 2023 #5
OMG this has been so entertaining! Kali Mar 2023 #6
the wreck was bad Kali Mar 2023 #4
LOL Kali Mar 2023 #7
Give Me 40 Acres To Turn This Rig Around Ptah Mar 2023 #8
!!! Kali Mar 2023 #9
AAAAANNNDD again Kali Mar 2023 #11
... Kali Mar 2023 #12
Is that fire close to you? Ptah Mar 2023 #13
not really Kali Mar 2023 #14

Kali

(55,014 posts)
1. OMG a semi just went where we don't take a 4x anymore
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 12:35 AM
Mar 2023
I told them the road wasn't passable anymore. they made it to the top of the hill and just sat there for about 30 minutes and then their lights went off. guess they are spending the night stuck on top of a washed out rocky hill. I wonder if they will try to back down or go forward when it gets daylight. there are worse spots going forward but no place to turn around until he gets back down to the barn area and that is a quarter mile backing down a rough messy steep hill. what a fucking moran!

TurboDem

(214 posts)
2. I drive a box truck through Texas Canyon a couple of times a month.
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 07:51 AM
Mar 2023

Beautiful view, but it makes me nervous every time!

Kali

(55,014 posts)
3. LOL! next day
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 11:27 AM
Mar 2023

what he crossed instead of backing up when I told him and 4 other passenger vehicles "ya can't git there from here" (looking back to our barn area) -




where he spent the night and remains (unless he walked out) -




Kali

(55,014 posts)
6. OMG this has been so entertaining!
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 05:53 PM
Mar 2023

I don't know how to post videos but I have a couple that are pretty funny. Another trucker from the company came from Texas and had to turn around at that Sybil exit, come back up the interstate, park on the shoulder, climb the fence, hike down through the rocks and brush and help the guy get unstuck and back the truck down the hill and back across the culverts. bent the shit out of his front bumper, and tore off all his mudflaps. there was a mesquite branch stuck in the front too.





help arrived - one guy on foot with a digging bar




backing over trashed culverts -







I took the helper guy up to his truck on the highway and on my way back I saw another vehicle in a strange spot. He said he got stuck (no idea where) and spent the night on the ranch too.



Kali

(55,014 posts)
4. the wreck was bad
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 12:10 PM
Mar 2023

reading some comments on ADOT facebook, westbound car lost rear drivers side tire and flipped into eastbound lanes. parents including pregnant mother killed, 3 kids flown to TMC.

Kali

(55,014 posts)
9. !!!
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:38 PM
Mar 2023

there was at least one more! this one spent 2 nights back somewhere on Touchstone Trail then scraped something going over the top of this hill today.

Kali

(55,014 posts)
12. ...
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 08:09 PM
Mar 2023

Replying to
@ArizonaDOT
There is no alternate route unless you go all the way past Tombstone. You can NOT get through using Touchstone Trail/Texas Canyon. NOT A THROUGH ROAD!!!! Read the signs, save your tires and time. Go take a break in Benson.

Kali

(55,014 posts)
14. not really
Thu Mar 30, 2023, 08:54 PM
Mar 2023

mostly on the east bound rest stop and the Amerind - pretty much where the Walnut fire burned with it jumped the interstate. was that last year? two years ago? I can't remember. another semi made it all the way to the house about dark last night. left a crunched mesquite and a mud flap about halfway on his way back out to Sybil Road.

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