Wildfires cause highway closures and detours near Silverwood Lake 

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I got to do a lot of second-gear action winding up the mountain of Big Bear. I love Big Bear. Many years ago, out of Fonskin, over to Butler's Peak and up there and all through the trails over there. But up to John Bull, but anyhow, as far as the roads, yeah, the only thing I can figure is with the fires burning across the highway and being torched like that, it damages them, the asphalt and all that. I know they can only take so much heat and whatever is there. But these guys must be doing time and material because to shut it down, even like the lake, they don't care about Silverwood Lake. I mean, to me, I've been going there for 40 years. So I got my spot I go to. I used to drive there sometimes every week I'd go there back in the day. Usually on my skis, I would use them. I used to average 10 to 12 times a year. So now it's gotten down to maybe you're lucky if you could use it a couple of times a year, all because of one thing, and that's what we're dealing with here now. A lot of people love it. Today is day 10 that I'm working, and I'll take off tomorrow the next day, and then I'll see what it makes my mind of them going to work, you know, see what happens. So there you go. Over you there, Rubin, I guess Victor is sitting off. Okay, EC-60. everything's all stable and that's I'm guessing but yeah so they're getting a little scratchy on me here I'm thinking it's getting a little bad spot area so I just put in the shop guys so I'm gonna call 73s and get that a good one and I'll catch you guys here tomorrow morning okay and 6 gm.m. 73. 33. I'll be there. they'll be up there with bulldozers and heavy equipment that those roads on notorious because it's like hurricane gulch. It's notorious. You know, if anybody so much as strikes a match, the place goes up like a Roman candle, you know, right off the 15 there. But that is notorious. I couldn't tell you how many times the fire started there. Usually they can get it under control relatively quick. But I remember one time, I know I told you I was heading out of there, had my day of skiing. Great time. I could see the fire burning in the direction of 1138. And sure enough, through that direction because Highway 138 is shut down. And so they were, one time I got detoured, I had to go all through Hysteria for an hour of stop and go all the way through Hisperia because a 50-foot section of the road was being worked on right before it headed into the entrance of Silver, the off-ramp there to Silverwater, I go, you've got to be kidding me. It's like I wanted to pull off to the side of the shoulder and go around this little thing they had, but an hour detour. So, yeah.

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