Story: Escape from La Jolla

December 31, 2013

LA JOLLA, CA – Unknown assailants have cut off the tony community of La Jolla from any traffic in or out of this San Diego community. No injuries have been reported.

Witnesses immediately reported on cell phones images of the barriers blocking three access roads, La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla Shores Drive and Nautilus. Images show what is believed to be the entire contents of at least six garbage trucks standing in the way of traffic at all three locations.

Apparently, this was the only damage caused, and no one has spoken on behalf of the action.

Although the main three access roads are blocked, there are routes through the community just north of La Jolla Shores Beach, which are being used by hundreds of cars fleeing the crisis.

January 2, 2014

La Jolla, CA – This is day three of an unprecedented action that has blocked access in or out of the beach neighborhood. Meanwhile, helicopters are being used to transport ill or injured patients to nearby Scripps Hospital, as hundreds of police and volunteers are dismantling the three barriers.

It is a monumental task, especially how to dispose of the abandoned piles of trash. Crews are working around the clock using state of the art equipment to help load the debris into trucks for the waste to be taken to the Miramar Land Fill five miles from the sites. This has not stopped citizens from trying to tunnel through the mess at all three locations. No one has yet been successful to escape the barricaded town.

No one has claimed responsibility for this to explain why roads were blocked. There has been no communication from any individual or groups taking credit for the fiasco. Anyone with information regarding this feat should call 8005559898. The hundreds of tips being phoned in are carefully followed to ensure every tip is followed.

LA JOLLA, CA – January 10

Cars are still blocking access in or out of La Jolla as motorists abandoned their vehicles to walk back into the town to find accommodations and food. Every hotel is packed with guests, sometimes an entire family to one room. Local residents were fearful of negative reactions when they refused to open their homes, adjacent to the dump site, as crowds of men, women, and children filled the streets of what was once considered one of America’s most beautiful villages.

Food delivery has been blocked with the streets full of cars. What started out as a barrier in and out of La Jolla has been exacerbated by hundreds of automobiles blocking access from any direction. On the San Diego side of the barrier, drivers left their cars the next day after autos, unaware of the crisis, continued to drive up to the exits and entrances.

Dozens of helicopters have been privately chartered to transport wealthy families out of what is now called “Dump Zone.” The only area large enough to accommodate helicopters are the asphalt areas at schools, which have been closed since this travesty began. The braver and more desparate families allow the helicopter to hover over their homes as they are lifted by specially rigged transport platforms.

Another escape route has been by sea, as the masses force their way into shops that usually rent kayaks, scuba gear, and surfboards to seaside visitors. An ocean liner, previously docked at the San Diego Harbor has arrived to accommodate as many people as possible, who can find a way to float, and sometimes swim, despite the occasionally shark infested region. The liner is unable to come any closer than a quarter mile from the shore, as Scripps Institute of Oceanography describes a sea bed too high for any ship larger than a yacht or motorboat, to traverse the waters.

The mayor of San Diego asked the federal government for National Guard to help control a growing, and internationally reported, crowds of hundreds seeking refuge.

Channel 7 was in La Jolla at the time the crisis began and has been reporting live from the dump zone. Indicators are that even if the garbage could be removed, there continues to be a formidable task of removing hundreds of cars that have now backed up to Prospect Street and Torrey Pines Road, a good half mile from the Dump Zone. From the south, the abandoned cars extend to the Grand and Garnet exit to the site, another half mile of abandoned vehicles.

State officials have requested the entire community of La Jolla be considered an emergency zone. There is no end in site to removing the hundreds of cars, which are now estimated to be in the neighborhood of two thousand abandoned cars. Hundreds of homes have been overtaken by mobs searching for food and sanctuary during this trying time.

Life outside of La Jolla continues as usual, although drivers have been blocked from using Interstate 5 south of Interstate 8 and rerouted to Interstate 805, which joins with I5 five miles north of La Jolla. Drivers unaware of the growing problem, who continue to come from the north, are also rerouted to I 805, causing huge traffic jams throughout the region.

“This shows us all how fragile our infrastructure has become, that there are so few opportunities for ingress and egress to businesses and home,” said Gov. Jerry Brown, in his first interview since the Dump Zone began five days ago. “I have been meeting with various state officials to determine how best to confront and solve this terrible situation. There are no solutions at this time.”

This grave forecast comes at a time when restaurants and markets are depleted of existing stock. Without a way to replenish their supply, the owners are faced with the futile task of keeping crowds of people out of their establishments. Hotels are reporting major damage to lobbies, hallways, and rooms, as customers have been forced to drink only water for the last two days.

Fortunately, delivery of basic food items has been expedited by the use of dozens of barges, stacked with provisions, landing on the beach shores. These arrivals are met with frenzied men and women desparate for food, making it almost impossible for food to be equitably divided. Thousands more continue to starve, despite the boatloads of items arriving to the shore.

Even national guard protection has been unable to control the crowds. There are no natural barriers to keep anyone from entering a protected zone, meant only for emergency personnel. A medevac team has established bases at the La Jolla Recreation Center at Draper and Prospect, the field at La Jolla High School, at Fay and Nautilus Avenues, and the church parking lot of the United Methodist Church at La Jolla Blvd and Costa de la Puerta. Needy individuals have had to walk sometimes two miles to any of the three locations in order to be treated for illness or injury.

The Red Cross reports 10 deaths from the region, all natural causes. La Jolla has been known as a pricey retirement community with five facilities devoted to caring for the elderly. Women have given birth at these locations, and been treated, with efforts made to find a place for them and their infants.

What began as a seemingly well organized prank has transformed this once beautiful refuge into devastation from block to block, as if ants had overtaken a forested area. Street gutters are filled with human waste, as there is no alternative to accommodate this number of people.

Those fortunate enough, and have enough money, to be airlifted out, have fled to second homes throughout the country and abroad. Communities throughout the US are rethinking the routes in and out of all their towns and cities, with the US government promising funds to create alternative routes, including tunnels large enough for an evacuation. City planners are rethinking the suburbs and recommending that supermarkets that were in one location to serve hundreds, be divided into smaller stores and scattered throughout the city or town.

Airports are jammed with passengers as 24-hour news channels warn that every neighborhood is at risk of such dramatic stoppages. Canada and Mexico report records of people crossing the border, but there is no correlation between that fact and the fear nationwide that the same fate could beset the most secure of communities.

NEW YORK, NY – What was considered a one of a kind action has been duplicated in Manhattan, where bridges have been blocked from passage creating a similar situation, with abandoned cars now as the main obstacle to entering or leaving the island city.

No one has come forward to claim responsibility for this action, which is forecast to effect markets worldwide as the specter of La Jolla’s ravages to soon overtake one of the nation’s busiest and important locations, with Wall Street and the stock exchange, also cut off from entering or leaving the city. Subways have been overrun with frantic residents looking for an escape before another calamity unfolds.