Well, there's a house...
...and then there's a HOUSE...
Posted on 05/26/2019 6:48:34 PM PDT by MtnClimber
DOLORES, Colo. (KKTV) - Boulders weighing a combined 10 million pounds destroyed a stretch of highway in southwestern Colorado and have left road crews with a daunting cleanup job.
"It’s truly mind-boggling that something that big came down," said Mike McVaugh, CDOT Regional Transportation director for southwest Colorado. McVaugh spoke with 11 News sister station CBS Denver about the job ahead.
The massive boulders were part of a rockslide Friday afternoon that rendered part of Highway 145 impassable. The slide left behind an 8-foot-deep trench where pavement once was.
According to CDOT, the trench was caused by the biggest boulder to fall, which weighs a whopping 8.5 million pounds and is roughly the size of a house. A second boulder landed on the highway that weighs 2.3 [million] pounds. Cleanup crews were dispatched immediately after the slide.
"They sent a plow truck out, they sent a supervisor out. They showed up on site and they were like, ‘That’s not going to work. We’ve got some really big rocks here,’” McVaugh said. “[The boulders] came off a cliff band about 850 feet above the highway."
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Since the average reading proficiency
of American readers is about fifth grade,
second grade might be a wise choice.
LOL
Gotta make the cleanup crew feel a little nervous while they’re cleaning up. Yikes!
I thought it would buff out...
Darn you!
Let the Air Force use it for target practice for a day.
When I was ‘selling’ asphalt the best argument was you can patch asphalt easier than concrete but not sure about that today with all the ‘miracle’ sealers etc.
Of course NONE of it is ‘better’ than the base it is put on.
Like painting a wall...be it 10 bucks a gallon or 50 bucks a gallon, if the ‘base’ is not prepared properly you are just throwing your money away..
As to volume, they still(??) sell asphalt by the ton and concrete by the yard...ie 10 tons of asphalt is 5 yds of concrete (or something like that)
Curb appeal ping!
I’m so not thinking big enough.
Springtime in the Rockies...
One of the problems with Colorado roads through the mountains is that the Rocks were not cleared back far enough. Therefore the Rocks keep falling down onto the roads. I guess it just simply cost too much to scale back the mountains by at least a quarter mile on either side of the highway.
Well, there's a house...
...and then there's a HOUSE...
My husband was supposed to be THERE this week, but there was a blizzard so they rescheduled the meeting. He’ll be coming in from the north instead - Grand Junction > Cortez. Amazing. rock!!
Thank you, yes will try to do the base right this time.
If that had fallen on an island it could have gone all the way through to water and sunk it.
I’ve actually been out that way. We go through Cortez to get to Utah and Canyonlands National Park, Moab and Arches National Park. I have only ever encountered a boulder on the highway in Utah on the way to Moab, but only after it fell, thank God.
Well, people do go to Colorado to get stoned.
Stay back 200 ft. Not responsible for windshield damage.
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