For more than a week, the closure of Interstate 10 brought the Los Angeles metropolitan area to a literal standstill. After appalling Angelenos with the suggestion that repairing the freeway after a major fire would take three to five weeks, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) took a victory lap, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, to announce that I-10 would reopen before Thanksgiving.