Big Sur hit again as huge landslide covers Highway 1

SF Gate ^ | Updated 3:49 pm, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 | Curtis Alexander

[AFreeBird]

Globull warming dontchaknow.

[Boardwalk]

I loved that road trip. I wanted to move to Camel after! Gorgeous trip.

[blam]

They’ve tried and tried to warn us about global warming.

[editor-surveyor]

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Looks like somebody is trying to tell the residents of Big Sur something.

[the_Watchman]

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.

[Wayne07]

Was the road already closed in that area before the landslide? Otherwise you’d think there’d be a car or two under there...

[editor-surveyor]

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The dude what created that coastline is who disturbed it!
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[editor-surveyor]

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That’s almost enough for a new town by Hwy 1 standards!

It was a gentile curve.

[CincyRichieRich]

Well, at least there is plenty of money left in their healthcare proposal to repair it.

[Boardwalk]

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.

[Rebelbase]

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.

[editor-surveyor]

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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.

[editor-surveyor]

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That road is already closed for other repairs.

[doorgunner69]

GE does show a lot of slide debris there before, not like it was an unknown rockslide area.

[Don Corleone]

There was a neat restaurant called “Napenthe’ around there. I wonder if it got hit?

[Beowulf9]

I looked up this area because it says between Gorda and Ragged Point. I just got done painting Ragged Point from a trip we made there and am hoping to see it shown in Winfield Gallery in Carmel. Also would fly there to be at the opening. My painting is looking directly along the beach outward toward Gorda where this landslide now sits. I'm pretty shocked. I'm also hoping there is another way to Carmel...from the south by road that is. Just wow.

[editor-surveyor]

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Properties in the Carmel Valley Ranch start at around 15 million these days.

[publius911]

A before photo would be nice ...

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...

[Blood of Tyrants]

I thought mud season was over and they were into fire season.

[marktwain]

It will never be stable, and they knew it when they built it.

As geologists say, “All hills want to be flat.”

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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.