Posted on 02/21/2017 6:15:10 PM PST by daisy12
Highway 41 to Yosemite National Park is closed at Fish Camp, the California Highway Patrol and park officials reported Tuesday.
Caltrans reported the roadway is closed eight-tenths of a mile south of the park at Summerdale Campground. The agency doesn’t project the roadway reopening until March 10.
A washout Feb. 9 eroded the southbound shoulder of the highway, said Caltrans spokesman Cory Burkarth. Since then, Caltrans has had one-way traffic controls in place while agency workers inspected the roadway several times a day.
On Tuesday morning, Caltrans workers noticed the northbound lane was starting to sink and banned tour buses and heavy equipment from the route, Burkarth said. As the road failure expanded, Caltrans decided to close the highway to all traffic.
Water has eroded the roadbed beneath a portion of Highway 41, causing part of the road to cave in. Caltrans officials say the road will have to be excavated and rebuilt before it can be reopened to traffic.
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Wow. Our rains this year in SoCal have been unbelievable. It just won’t stop.
Thank goodness they caught this and stopped additional traffic in time!
Such a GORGEOUS piece of G-d’s Green Earth.
No wonder it collapsed it only has a bed sheet on it
It really is.
lol
Thank goodness nobody was hurt.
The rainfall in California has been truly amazing this year. Yesterday, driving home from work was like trying to drive through monsoon rains in Asia. Only colder.
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As you know, we get hard rains here
But not week, after week, after week of hard rain.
I’m getting tired of it. Time for sunshine!
I wonder if all the extra water down there can put weight on the fault and cause it to move?
Fortunately not a shear cliff off the shoulder. there are plenty in that neck of the woods especially coming in from highway 395.
I don’t think that plastic sheet is going to do much good. If they had any sense, they’d move the backhoe before it falls down the mountainside as well.
Yes, that backhoe is worrisome.
That’s okay because Jerry is building a bullet train.s
So What?
Sometime in the future they will have High Speed Rail that no one will ride but ... it will be so cool!
WillieGreen would approve
Few miles North is where I grew up (Oregon)
We were always jealous of you folks and drove South to get away from the rain ...
Ya get used to it
I thought about moving to Seattle a few years back ... but rain!
maybe the poles have shifted and CA is now where Seattle used to be?
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