As many of you might have noticed on even national news, nearly all of highway-accessible Death Valley NP is closed due to severe flash flooding last week. Given the logistical complications in that kind of heat, many of the road washouts might take a long time to repair. And gosh knows how they are dealing with all the cars buried in mud, the trapped tourists there in summer of all things, and loss of infrastructure at Furnace Creek. It's not a place you want to isolated at if a power line disruption knocks out the air conditioning!
Of course, all kinds of roads were damaged well beyond Death Valley itself, and no telling how many backroads washed out, both in CA and southern NV. The NPS posted the standard appropriate advice : DO NOT trust your navigation device with respect to possible alternate routes.
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