{"id":184428,"date":"2026-02-19T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184428\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:49:12","slug":"snow-chains-on-the-101-erroneous-travel-alert-baffles-thousand-oaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184428\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow chains on the 101? Erroneous travel alert baffles Thousand Oaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-02-18\/rain-winds-snow-southern-california-storm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">storms that pummeled Southern California<\/a> this week brought dramatic wind gusts, bursts of rain and lightning that set <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/news\/local-news\/north-county\/photos-palm-trees-catch-fire-after-being-struck-by-lightning-in-san-pasqual-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trees on fire<\/a>, not to mention <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sbsun.com\/2026\/02\/17\/southern-california-mountains-got-plenty-of-snow-with-more-on-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">heavy snow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s no snow on the 101 Freeway near Thousand Oaks \u2014 which might come as a surprise to those who spied an errant travel alert from the California Department of Transportation. <\/p>\n<p>An agency advisory for the L.A.-Ventura county line went out Wednesday  saying snow chains were required on all vehicles except passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks equipped with snow tires on at least two-drive wheels. Those with snow tires, the advisory warned, must still carry chains.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"A map shows an erroneous warning for snow chains near Thousand Oaks.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771498152_36_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>          <\/p>\n<p>Social media responded to the warning <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU6dsjjkmzb\/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with puzzlement<\/a>: \u201cI get it. It was like 49 degrees and sunny this morning. It\u2019s tough in these streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times on Wednesday afternoon reached out to Caltrans, which said an error had occurred: \u201cThese chain control messages for US-101 were inadvertently added to QuickMap and have been removed since the time of your inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, roadways in Southern California\u2019s mountains are expected to be inundated with snow. Forecasters with the National Weather Service are warning that Thursday should bring dangerous driving conditions in the mountains, with the potential for roadway closures in the Tejon Pass on the 5 Freeway. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlowing and driving snow with near zero visibilities possible,\u201d the weather service said.<\/p>\n<p>Just not in Thousand Oaks.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The storms that pummeled Southern California this week brought dramatic wind gusts, bursts of rain and lightning that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[87032,87034,87031,5154,1246,48,52,51,20306,47,50,49,66,60,73326,21003,87030,87033,1009,178,316],"class_list":{"0":"post-184428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-agency-advisory","9":"tag-dramatic-wind-gust","10":"tag-erroneous-travel-alert","11":"tag-freeway","12":"tag-heavy-snow","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-lightning","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","19":"tag-los-angeles-news","20":"tag-mountain","21":"tag-national-weather-service","22":"tag-oaks","23":"tag-roadway","24":"tag-snow-chain","25":"tag-snow-tire","26":"tag-southern-california","27":"tag-vehicle","28":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}