Just a pothole....
Posted on 03/08/2010 9:34:49 AM PST by george76
A rockslide that punched two large holes in Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon overnight has closed the highway indefinitely in both directions.
The Colorado Department of Transportation said the largest of the boulders was about the size of a semi truck and at least one hole was about 10 by 20 feet in size.
The rockslide occurred around midnight at mile marker 125, just west of Hanging Lake Tunnel. It resulted in holes in a westbound bridge, and boulders blocked both westbound and eastbound lanes.
Highway officials had no immediate estimate on when any lanes through the canyon would reopen
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Colorado: it may help everybody if it was on the heading.
Isn’t it obvious? It’s Global Warming causing boulders to fall out of the sky.
The Obamaloon just announced that road repaids would be covered under his health care plan.
Frost heave and spring thaw? What a mess. Lucky no cars got hit.
Every year there are tornados is Kansas, it rains in Florida and there are rock slides in Colorado.
People have made fun of me for years because I hate to drive in falling rock zones — gives me the creeps. This story is going to find its way into some email boxes.
Those are huge boulders. People are going to have to go south on I-25 to I-40 for a safe route. I have been through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison route from Kirtland NM to Colorado Springs and NEVER again. It is gorgeous but didn’t like the feeling of looking down into the Canyon and am on this small road. I wanted to kiss the ground when I got through that Canyon.
A 1995 rock slide on I-70 in Glenwood Canyon killed three people.
A slide on Thanksgiving Day in 2004 closed the highway and required nearly $700,000 worth of repairs
That is a very steep canyon through there and the freeway hangs off the edge. I am surprised there aren’t more rockslides that close the freeway.
Flatlander!
“Flatlander!”
LOL, I was thinking exactly the same thing!
I would suggest a relaxing drive from Ouray to Silverton.
Eek! One of those rocks weighed 66 tons.
I’d rather be a Flatlander than just plain Flat. :-)
I don’t think there is a road in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Glenwood is on the Clorado river. Although I live in VA now, I am a “native” with the bumpersticker and everything.
Either that or it was a teapartier.
I just did that drive in the fall of '08. I had been to Silverton from the southern access out of Durango and it is equally impressive. I also like the view coming into Steamboat from the east that I did this last year.
I think my favorite that few travel (not counting fire roads) is US 191 from Springerville, AZ to Safford, AZ. It has the mountains, the overlooks, the 550 hair pin turns and then when you think you will soon drop into a simpler area as you are coming down and approach Moranci you get the giant mining trucks sharing the road with you.
Whooops !
Two things:
To me, the fear was mostly going around a tight mountain corner and having a square foot of already fallen rock take out the bottom of the car. The odds of getting splatted are rather slim.
As for alternate routes, why not 160 through Walsenburg and Durango? OK, they’d have to open up Wolf Creek Pass this Spring, but that is a quiet ride.
Just a pothole....
Wow. We are planning a trip to San Diego in 12 days. I hope they have the road open by then or we will have to go via Albuquerque.
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