(4 Jan 2011)
Gorman, California – 3 January 2011
1. Mid of wheel spinning in snow
2. Wide of icy road
3. Man shovelling snow on gas station forecourt
4. Low-angle shot of man shovelling snow
5. Zoom in on snow plough clearing road
6. Wide of Interstate 5, “The Grapevine” between Santa Clarita and Gorman, sign reading (english) “Elevation 3000 FT”
7. Mountains that interstate carves through
8. Tracking shot of truck spreading sand on interstate
9. Mid of man shovelling out car
10. Truck driving with snow-chains on tyres
11. Mid of row of cars covered in snow
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, Jackie Rovero, travelling to San Diego:
“It’s very frustrating. We had school starting today at 9 o’clock am. We had to tell our teachers we couldn’t make it, we’re missing our first day of class.”
13. Mid of people leaving EconoLodge motel
14. Tracking shot of Jeep driving with snow-chains on tyres
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, Alejandro Aguilar, Bakersfield, California
“We found out probably around 6 pm. They had said Lake Hughes was going to be closed, so we figured out we were just going to stay here, take a nap, find a gas station, stay in the car.”
16. Mid of Aguilar wrapped in blanket
17. Various of Aguilar waiting on embankment
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, Alejandro Aguilar, Bakersfield, California:
“But it feels like camping, so it’s pretty good.”
Castaic, California – 3 January 2011
19. Close of “Road Closed” sign
20. Wide of “Road Closed” signs
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop, Jerod Miller, Porterville, California:
“All the motels from here to like 15 miles back that way are all full, so we had to sleep in our car.”
Santa Clarita, California – 3 January 2011
22. Various of snow-capped hills
23. Various of house with snow-covered roof
STORYLINE:
Motorists in the United States who spent a freezing night in their cars were on the move again on Monday, nearly 24 hours after a winter storm turned Southern California mountain and desert roads into treacherous stretches of blowing snow and ice.
Hundreds of drivers returning home after the New Year’s holiday found themselves stuck after the Grapevine section of Interstate 5 was closed at about 12:30 pm on Sunday at 4,160-foot-high Tejon Pass – the major route between Southern and Central California.
Highway workers toiled through the night to plough about 35 miles of road.
Earlier, blizzard conditions had eased to light snow flurries and then cloudy skies.
Alejandro Aguilar, of Bakersfield, wrapped himself in a blanket and waited near the closed roadway in Castaic for the all-clear.
He and four other family members bundled up in their car overnight.
“They had said (the interstate) was going to be closed, so we figured out we were just going to stay here, take a nap, find a gas station, stay in the car,” he said.
Jerod Miller, of Porterville, said his daughter and his girlfriend got off the road after a three-hour traffic jam on Sunday but found no room at the inn.
“All the motels from here to like 15 miles back that way are all full, so we had to sleep in our car,” he said.
An alternate coastal route, US 101, was open but many motorists were already battling blizzard conditions in the middle of Tejon Pass when it was shut down on Sunday afternoon.
State Route 58 between Bakersfield and Mojave in Kern County also reopened after a nine-hour closure Monday morning.
Freeways in the Antelope Valley, the populous high desert area north of Los Angeles, also were icy and a winter storm warning was posted.
Classes were cancelled for many schools in the high desert, and in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountain ranges.
States of emergency were declared in 13 counties last month.
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