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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That’s a pretty good one even by Big Sur standards.
It’ll be months before they get it opened again.
Where is the yelling and screaming that the Coastline was disturbed?
Wow, crazy. How would engineers know if a road can be rebuilt through that area? Doesn’t look like it would ever be too stable or secure....
I call BS and Fake News on this, everybody knows that Global Warming Doctrine has prevented Rain from falling in California and plunged this State in to a Never Ending drought. It simply could NOT have happened according to the Gospel of Global Warming
WOW.
A before photo would be nice ...
Is that new beach or did the coastline stick out there before the slide ?
Anybody under there?
Been up and down that road many times on car and motorcycle. After seeing that slide, not sure I want to do it again. Yikes!
“Wow, crazy. How would engineers know if a road can be rebuilt through that area? Doesn’t look like it would ever be too stable or secure....”
I was down to Big Sur ( from Monterey) a couple of weeks ago. The road is closed beyond Post Oak Ranch and Nepenthe As for rebuilding, the bridges on this road were build circa 1932, and the road has survived with a slide here or there for 80 years.
I think it is a new beach aka “Slide Beach.”
Drove the Coast Road in 2000. Aim to do it again soon. It will never be stable, and they knew it when they built it. However, it’s worth the trouble to rebuild it when necessary. One of the great drives in the entire world.
So what do you do if that road is your route to work?
There goes the California gasoline tax again.
Or your house or business....I guess wait till it opens. Slides are common on 1 but that one is a doozy and no recent rain to account for it.
Some surfer dude was driving along and is now buried under all that mountain... : )
I just looked on Google Earth. It is just south of the town, and the distinctive driveway is obvious. The coastline was previously pretty smooth and straight prior to the slide - so that stuff in the water is all new.
And of course all that new stuff isn’t very strong, and the water will keep wearing at it and causing it to slide a bit more.
They’ll be able to fix it, but not sure how - it will just cost a lot of money.
I sure hope that guy with the house just to the south doesn’t work in Gorda which is just to the north. If so his commute went from 5 minutes to maybe an hour or more.
As geologists say, "All hills want to be flat."
Follow the route denoted by detour signs?
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