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Big Sur hit again as huge landslide covers Highway 1
SF Gate ^ | Updated 3:49 pm, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 | Curtis Alexander

Posted on 05/23/2017 4:37:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: Scrambler Bob

Globull warming dontchaknow.


21 posted on 05/23/2017 5:00:10 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Kickass Conservative

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


22 posted on 05/23/2017 5:01:58 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: BenLurkin

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


23 posted on 05/23/2017 5:02:52 PM PDT by blam
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To: BenLurkin

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


24 posted on 05/23/2017 5:03:38 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: abb

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.


25 posted on 05/23/2017 5:04:16 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: BenLurkin

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


26 posted on 05/23/2017 5:05:02 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Scrambler Bob

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The dude what created that coastline is who disturbed it!
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27 posted on 05/23/2017 5:06:43 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: George from New England

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

It was a gentile curve.


28 posted on 05/23/2017 5:09:09 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: BenLurkin

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


29 posted on 05/23/2017 5:09:24 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up.)
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To: the_Watchman

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.


30 posted on 05/23/2017 5:10:19 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: 21twelve

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.


31 posted on 05/23/2017 5:10:35 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: Enchante

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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.


32 posted on 05/23/2017 5:13:20 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Hot Tabasco

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That road is already closed for other repairs.


33 posted on 05/23/2017 5:15:43 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: 21twelve

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


34 posted on 05/23/2017 5:15:44 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: BenLurkin

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


35 posted on 05/23/2017 5:19:06 PM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: BenLurkin
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.
36 posted on 05/23/2017 5:21:13 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Boardwalk

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


37 posted on 05/23/2017 5:22:06 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: George from New England
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...

38 posted on 05/23/2017 5:22:32 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: BenLurkin

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


39 posted on 05/23/2017 5:30:02 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

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

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


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.


40 posted on 05/23/2017 5:36:35 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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