Stuck on I-80 in Poconos
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Thanks Mal. Screw you Oracle. Troopers have now turned traffic around and they are heading back west. Now they can navigate south and back North. They were stuck 10 hours
Thanks everyone. They rerouted to I-78 and are sailing along now. Looking like a 19 hour ordeal for a drive that is usually 5 hours comfortably
Seriously. The fact that this app is free is unreal to me. What a great resource for trips or even daily driving for hazard alerts!!
Yep... neglected to try Waze years ago when a colleague first told me about it... co-pilot/wife made me try it driving to Charlottesville 500mi last Thanksgiving... threw my TomTom into the garbage... no more State Trooper Oopsies... especially on unfamiliar highways where I don’t know the hidin’ spots
Waze is great.Yep... neglected to try Waze years ago when a colleague first told me about it... co-pilot/wife made me try it driving to Charlottesville 500mi last Thanksgiving... threw my TomTom into the garbage... no more State Trooper Oopsies... especially on unfamiliar highways where I don’t know the hidin’ spots
I am still bummed they removed the Mr T voice option. "Make a left, sucka !" "Turn right, fool!"
Funny you mention that. Took a road trip last week and noticed it was not an option anymore. Bummer.
WOW! That reminds me of the flooding after the one PSU game, where 322 was closed. And we were heading to Harrisburg. Or the time (October 77) when we were coming back to State College after a weekend in Philly. Heave rain at the foot of Seven Mountains--as we climbed higher, the rain turned to snow and there was a foot of snow at the summit. Two semis jackknifed at the top, and no one go through until noonish the next day. We get to State College and there's no snow at all.... Our profs though we were crazy.
Its not really ABC....XYZ, since Jerbear, this board has taken a great toll on my sanity.
I hope your child made it home safely.
You just need to ignore @ThePennsyOracle . He's very "different" and not in a "good way".
Waze sucked friday night. Routed everyone to the bridges over the susquehanna in maryland that had been closed 8 hours earlier.
That’s because WAZE gets its info from other drivers. If they are dumbasses then you follow dumbasses advice!
I was in the Harrisburg area about 14 years ago for a wedding in February and the heat in my truck decided to fail completely. We got a massive snow storm and I needed to drive down to Charleston, WV for work. They closed the highway, literally about 5 minutes after I got on it. I was the only one on the highway, no plow trucks yet. Without the lift package on the off-road package I would not have cleared the snow. Even with it I barely cleared it. I could only go about 25 mph and just did my best to stay centered between the mile markers on each side of the road because I couldn't see squat. No heat also made it near impossible to keep the windshield clear without freezing (which I did). That 6 hour trip turned into 14 hours of sheer misery. Ugh.
They made it home safe and sound. Thanks. FWIW, I suggested they wait until Saturday morning to leave State College, but I'm Dad which means Im a dork and not very brightI hope your child made it home safely.
You just need to ignore @ThePennsyOracle . He's very "different" and not in a "good way".
Waze is similar to Google Maps in the quality of the directions and taking traffic into account to give you the fastest route to your destination. Waze adds in information reported by other drivers (police - hidden or visible, cars parked in the breakdown lane, fog/weather conditions and others). The police info is priceless if you tend to push the speed limit a bit.
I use it even when I know exactly where I'm going.
I had to drive to Allentown from Bloomsburg Friday morning. No issues at all getting down there. Left around 1 pm and headed west from Allentown before turning north to get back to Bloomsburg just in case there were any issues on the Turnpike and I-80. Glad I did.
Google bought Waze in 2015 so Google maps uses the data from Waze for traffic slowdowns and accidents on their maps, but they do not pull the "weather/police/car on side of rode" info over. Knowing where tractor trailers / cars have pulled off the road has been a godsend for me as my morning commute most of the year is in complete darkness. Gives me a heads up to stay far away from the shoulder. Plus as others have mentioned the police alerts - while not 100% accurate - have been very useful as well.
Waze always gives me wonky routes, the routing on Google Maps has been better. The only reason I want to use Waze is for the notifications of police, objects and stalled vehicles on the roads. I wish Google would import that into maps, then I could delete Waze once and for all.
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