Not yet, no. A wildfire in Washoe Valley briefly closed 395 through the Washoe Flats today though. It was contained relatively quickly from what I understand. Nonetheless, when your wildfire season begins before the first day of summer, it's a bad, BAD sign. The west is gonna burn like a motherfucker this summer and fall.
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Dan Druff
Thanks for these reports. Very cool.
The drive between Reno and Vegas is WIDE open, with few cars, and just about no obstructions or curves. If there's a place to safely speed, this is it.
For this reason, I set my all-time record regarding fast drives for a long distance. I covered 450 miles in 5.5 hours. This was especially tough because of the slow speeds required through Carson City, Gardnerville, Minden, and Fallon. I did this in 2008.
You would think that, but not necessarily. Depends on whether you're driving a car with Nevada plates or not.
In December 2015 while going 73 mph (speed limit is 70) I got stopped by a Nevada state trooper between Goldfield and Tonopah. He claimed he clocked me at 83 but wrote the tiicket for 73 as he winked at me....... The real reason he pulled me over was because I was driving a rental car with out-of-state plates and he wanted to search for drugs.
A similar trap exists to this day on eastbound I-80 just east of Reno after the Greg Street exit. A Washoe County sheriff will sit there and do nothing but look for cars with out of state plates to pull over and search. An AP friend got caught in this trap in 2014 and was charged with several counts of identity theft because he had several other people's players cards on him (with their permission of course.) Obviously the charges were dropped but it was still quite a hassle.
The Humboldt County sheriff's department (northeast of Reno) is notorious for stopping out-of-state vehicles on I-80 in order to attempt civil asset forfeitures.
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