Monthly Archives: July 2015

  Winter is coming…   That was my first thought when I heard the Tex Wash bridge on I-10 near Desert Center, California, had been torn away by a wall of water racing down a normally dry channel. Dusty, dry California is looking at a windy, rainy El Nino-driven winter and there are hundreds of bridges similar to...

One of the first things a documentary filmmaker learns to let go of is anything resembling a predictable schedule. Trying to capture a story as it unfolds can be tricky, so we’ve had to roll with things as they come our way here at Be Prepared to Stop.   Last week we were supposed to be in beautiful...

Why do a documentary on infrastructure and the freight industry?   This film started for me long before I was born. It started before the interstate highway system. It started with a young boy in the early 20th century who, to help his father’s business, would help secure a pick-up truck full of pallets by traveling across miles spread...