So earlier, my dad drove some friends and me up to the mountain for our snowboard team practice. It consists of driving about 15minutes up a pass on the freeway then 30 up the access road to the mountain. The whole time we were driving up the freeway it was just pouring rain, you could see some little waterfalls coming down from the hills on the right. So when we get up to the access road, it starts snowing and we drive up. When we get there it turns out the mountain is closed due to blizzard conditions, so we drive back down.
Now the snow is turning to rain while were still on the access road coming down. So we get back on the freeway and it is still just pouring, but we think nothing of it as were all (save my dad who doesnt really care) pretty bummed that the mountain was closed. Everything is pretty uneventful until we reach where the biggest waterfall was. Right as we were approaching it, it turns into a HUGE mudslide/flash flood. We have the divider between us and it, but a car on the other side wasn't so lucky and got pile drived into the divider. There were huge logs and bushes getting pushed down by it, and it showed no signs of letting up, so we decided to get the **** out of there. We passed by before it made it across the divider.
Other peoples were stopped and some highway patrol peoples were stopping traffic almost immediately, so I don't think we were needed.
It was one of the scariest situations I'v been in, and I hope the person/peoples in the other car that got caught in it are ok.
Sorry if my grammar/storytelling skills aren't very good.
Now the snow is turning to rain while were still on the access road coming down. So we get back on the freeway and it is still just pouring, but we think nothing of it as were all (save my dad who doesnt really care) pretty bummed that the mountain was closed. Everything is pretty uneventful until we reach where the biggest waterfall was. Right as we were approaching it, it turns into a HUGE mudslide/flash flood. We have the divider between us and it, but a car on the other side wasn't so lucky and got pile drived into the divider. There were huge logs and bushes getting pushed down by it, and it showed no signs of letting up, so we decided to get the **** out of there. We passed by before it made it across the divider.
Other peoples were stopped and some highway patrol peoples were stopping traffic almost immediately, so I don't think we were needed.
It was one of the scariest situations I'v been in, and I hope the person/peoples in the other car that got caught in it are ok.
Sorry if my grammar/storytelling skills aren't very good.
