Another reason my phone is superior to yours

So my car is all packed, I fill up the tank and buy a couple rockstars. It's raining really bad but I figure I can drive safe and it won't be a big deal. Thus I embark on my trip to Utah, for the holidays. As I drive on the freeway, I see signs saying the "junction" to the I-15 from the 215 (this is near San Bernardino) is closed. "Huh, that sucks for people trying to get on from the 215," I think to myself. As I near this closed junction, I remember that the 15 goes up into the mountains. Something clicks. I whip out my trusty iPhone, pull up the maps application (traffic enabled), and see that the 15 is marked in red (very congested) for miles and miles in both directions of the 15/215 junction.

I quickly exit, flip the radio to AM 1070, and discover that pretty much every major freeway coming out of southern California, that goes into mountains, has been closed due to heavy snow. Disaster averted! I could have gotten stuck in a parking lot on the freeway and had to spend the night in my car (as many people have done for the past two days). Instead, I took a nice 2+ hour drive around Riverside county and came home. Now I'm waiting for two-day's worth of backed up traffic to clear up before hitting the road. But not before I buy some chains and a survival kit.