AREA FREEWAYS HIT HARD BY STORM.Byline: Kathleen Sweeney Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA - For the third day, a winter storm released its fury Tuesday with periods of pouring rain and a few ice pelts, damaging the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. and causing a semitrailer sem·i·trail·er n. A trailer having a set or several sets of wheels at the rear only, with the forward portion being supported by the truck tractor or towing vehicle. to crash and spill diesel fuel. A truck driver heading southbound on the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. lost control in an early morning downpour and crashed into the center divider just north of Lyons Avenue, officials said. The crash ruptured both of the truck's fuel tanks, spilling 400 gallons of diesel fuel and snarling snarl 1 v. snarled, snarl·ing, snarls v.intr. 1. To growl viciously while baring the teeth. 2. To speak angrily or threateningly. v.tr. morning rush hour traffic for hours, said Doug Sweeney, California Highway Patrol spokesman. Caltrans crews spent more than eight hours cleaning the spill, officials said. About the same time, the crews worked to repair a 3-foot-wide sinkhole sinkhole or sink or doline Depression formed as underlying limestone bedrock is dissolved by groundwater. Sinkholes vary greatly in area and depth and may be very large. on the Antelope Valley Freeway in the No. 2 northbound lane just south of Soledad Canyon Road. Large amounts of water flowing in the storm sewer eroded a portion of the asphalt and concrete underneath a manhole, causing the road to cave in To fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. To submit; to yield. - H. Kingsley. See also: Cave Cave , Sweeney said. But thanks to the scattered nature of the showers, which dumped only .29 inches of rain from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan troopers handled just a handful of minor crashes, Sweeney said. That break could continue through Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. There is only a 20 percent chance of early morning showers today, with skies becoming partly cloudy. The high temperature will be around 60. Skies will also be partly cloudy Thursday with highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s, forecasters said. Rain is expected to return this weekend. Staff Writer Holly Edwards contributed to this story. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Caltrans workers set up barriers Tuesday to ward motorists away from a sinkhole on the Antelope Valley Freeway. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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