from the noise behind me, there's still a day and a half left and things could change. this was the state of carmageddon. with construction crews providing the only theatrics today on the freeway infamous for being one of the country's traffic nightmares, crews came in at midnight, right after the last car scrambled to get out of the way. a ten-mile stretch of the 405 is shut down for 53 hours this weekend so the freeway can be widened, hopefully easing congestion on a road that on average carries 18,000 vehicles an hour. but on this first day at least, it wasn't the carmageddon that so many had feared. one news report even called it carmaheaven. drivers were warned about the project for months. >> alternate routes -- >> reporter: on late night