Posted on 05/23/2017 4:37:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The isolation that came to Big Sur this year when wet weather closed several roads has deepened with a giant mudslide across Highway 1, just south of the small community of Gorda (Monterey County).
A quarter-mile-wide wall of mud and rock barreled over an oceanfront stretch of road Saturday night, fortunately on a section of the highway where there was no traffic because the area was already closed due to smaller slides.
The new slide is certain to postpone the opening of Highway 1 at Big Sur’s southern end, a link to the dramatic coastline that was expected to open in mid-June.
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Globull warming dontchaknow.
I loved that road trip. I wanted to move to Camel after! Gorgeous trip.
They’ve tried and tried to warn us about global warming.
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Looks like somebody is trying to tell the residents of Big Sur something.
When I lived in California and drove on Highway 1, I noted that the outside lane was missing in several places. I concluded that the only safe drive was to go north so I would be on the inside lane.
Was the road already closed in that area before the landslide? Otherwise you’d think there’d be a car or two under there...
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The dude what created that coastline is who disturbed it!
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That’s almost enough for a new town by Hwy 1 standards!
It was a gentile curve.
Well, at least there is plenty of money left in their healthcare proposal to repair it.
I was the passenger,and we drove south and did the whole 1. At times it was trecherous. I think it took 3 days as we stayed at interesting hotels along the way. My driver was pretty good.
The bulging slope to the left of the guy living on the southside of the slide looks like it could slip off also.
They’d never find anything left if that happened.
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I doubt that any serious damage was done to the road bed.
I would not want to be the cat skinner that has to glide the machine down into that mess to remove the material!
Very dangerous work to say the least.
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That road is already closed for other repairs.
GE does show a lot of slide debris there before, not like it was an unknown rockslide area.
There was a neat restaurant called “Napenthe’ around there. I wonder if it got hit?
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Properties in the Carmel Valley Ranch start at around 15 million these days.
Thanks for the memory jog... actually with a little work, quite doable...
There is an amazing web site I have not revisited for a few years, now.
Check it out!
Amazing California Total Coast Photo Project
Let me see how long it might take me to find one...
I thought mud season was over and they were into fire season.
It will never be stable, and they knew it when they built it.
As geologists say, “All hills want to be flat.”
I recall driving on Highway 1 in that area about 40 years ago. I thought, someday, those hillsides are going to slide down. It was obvious. Still, 40 years is a long time.
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