Section of Highway 1 in Big Sur Falls into the Ocean

KSBW ^ | 1/29 | Josh Copitch

[nickcarraway]

A section of Highway 1 in Big Sur has disappeared.

One lane of the highway was struck by debris flow and washed away, Caltrans reported. The road continues to erode as debris and water continues to flow down off the Big Sur mountains.

According to Big Sur Fire, the section of highway is located at Rat Creek, south of Esalen and north of Big Creek.

Caltrans crews will be out at the damaged section of road Friday morning to fully assess the damage.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Drove on that exact spot in October 2007. It’s almost as scary at night as it is in that picture!

[MayflowerMadam]

IT’S HAPPENING ... CA falling into the ocean, that is.

[SuperLuminal]

"It Happened One Night"

Watch it at least once each year...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Back in the 60’s everyone thought California was going to drop off into the ocean.***

I remember that very well.

“Where can you go,
When there’s no San Francisco.
Better get ready to tie boat
In Idaho!”

[Carriage Hill]

That’s lot of understeer in that beautiful car, if you get going too fast. Going off the cliff reminds me of “Thelma & Louise”...

[Carriage Hill]

Serious understeer for a car that lightweight. I would have opted for a lighter 260cui with a supercharger of IHI turbo.

[wbarmy]

My wife and I did our honeymoon driving from Oklahoma to Monterrey, CA by way of route 66 to LA then Hwy 1 up the coast.

In 1983, in a 1980 Mustang.

Living the dream, best honeymoon ever.

[Carriage Hill]

“Wiper(d) many a Porsche and Cobras...”

Not mine, with blueprinted engine of 320hp. on a road course. Maybe at a dragstrip.

[gitmo]

Back in the 60’s everyone thought California was going to drop off into the ocean.

Well, California did go off the deep end.

[who knows what evil?]

Goodbye, California.

[Carriage Hill]

Good memories; I envy you.

[MAAG]

Both. at 7x the cost, after an environmental study costing 37 million.

[PIF]

Options for the 400 model were: Ford 289, rear end 2:1 or 4:1, your choice of color - maroon with gold flake. No seat belts or roll bars.

In those days the chassis was imported from TVR in the UK by a Long Island Ford dealer who in stalled the engines.

[moovova]

I know, I know.

Too darn many Steely Dan fans here to sneak that by! LOL

[SERE_DOC]

Either that or Apples latest iteration of MACoS.

Which won't end well either way.

[PIF]

There was no Porsche that could have beat a model 400 and never a 200. I know because at the time I worked a a foreign car shop and we ran many a test. I don’t remember the 0 to 60 time, but was well under 10 sec. 289 Shelby Cobras were tad slower.

[Freee-dame]

Was the road closed to traffic when this slide happened?

[Vendome]

Had a hamburger at Nepenthe couple weeks ago.

That’s over til the end of summer...

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Too bad, they could use your bucket.

[TChad]

Back in the 60’s everyone thought California was going to drop off into the ocean.

Including my high school geography teacher. He moved to Arizona.