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‘Catastrophic failure’ on Teton Pass road near Idaho border. No timeline for reopening
Idaho Statesman ^ | 08 June 2024 | David Pace

Posted on 06/09/2024 10:16:41 AM PDT by Drew68

After two days with a mudslide and landslide, Wyoming State Highway 22 over Teton Pass has “catastrophically failed” and is expected to be closed for the long-term, according to the Wyoming Department of Transportation.

On Thursday, the road was temporarily closed after eight-inch cracks developed in the roadway at milepost 12.8.

Department crews and a contracted team from Evans Construction started working in the region to “construct a detour around the damage, but the landslide continued to move, taking out the whole road,” the department reports.

On Friday, due to “continued movement, the crews had been working to remove asphalt from the roadway in an effort to minimize the weight on the unstable ground and reduce the driving force pushing the movement,” according to the department.

They intended to reconfigure the road closer to the mountain “in shoe fly detour configuration,” prior to the roadway’s total failure. No crew members were injured or equipment damaged in the landslide.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation also reported Saturday morning that Friday’s “mudslide at milepost 15 on Teton Pass, has breached the roadway with mud and debris, overwhelming the channeled drainage ditch and culvert.”

Dispatched crews, with assistance from the Idaho Department of Transportation, continued to remove mud and debris Saturday morning at that location, the department reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Idaho; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: disaster; highway; jacksonhole; landslide; tetonpass; travel; wyoming
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To: Lazamataz

...works every time...


61 posted on 06/09/2024 12:01:26 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: A Navy Vet

Just needs to push the remaining dirt away and build a bridge.


62 posted on 06/09/2024 12:03:28 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: EVO X

“My guess is a total reroute away from the slide area.”

That’s what I would think, maybe blasting back into the mountainside? Not really much chance of an entirely new route through the national forest not adjacent to the current one, though.


63 posted on 06/09/2024 12:16:52 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Drew68

California engineering and construction firms may be able to help out due to their many years of expertise in roadway repair on CA Route 1 through Big Sur. Also, CA Hwy 60 in the badlands area between Moreno Valley and Beaumont was just widened by two lanes, a job that required massively high retaining walls and soil fill.


64 posted on 06/09/2024 12:19:10 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: Da Coyote

Sad that this is in one our reddest states. I can’t imagine nobody predicted this.


65 posted on 06/09/2024 12:25:40 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Drew68

How long will it take for the left to blame this on climate change?


66 posted on 06/09/2024 12:27:09 PM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: Lazamataz

Nothing that a little plywood and duct tape won’t fix.


Don’t forget the baling wire!


67 posted on 06/09/2024 12:29:46 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

This is like US 50 in Colorado. Detours that take hours unless you are very local.


68 posted on 06/09/2024 12:30:23 PM PDT by Iceclimber58
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To: Jim W N

Reminds me of a patient I once had. Got his big toe nearly cut off. Doctor wanted to amputate; nope. He went home, sewed it back up himself and began clean transmission fluid soaks. It healed. He was diabetic, too.


69 posted on 06/09/2024 12:35:02 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: BillyBonebrake

No prob. Drive down and then back up. And EV could do it. Bet Old Joe did it back in Scranton a couple of times.
Come on man!


70 posted on 06/09/2024 12:42:51 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Lazamataz

Taking someone to the Train Station is going to take a lot longer now.


71 posted on 06/09/2024 12:48:24 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Flaming Conservative

Wow. Sowed it up himself. Brave guy.


72 posted on 06/09/2024 12:52:29 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Drew68

Biden will fix it unless cannibals interfere.


73 posted on 06/09/2024 12:55:17 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Jim W N

I know. Shudder.


74 posted on 06/09/2024 1:05:04 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Wallace T.
The collapsed road is in a national forest, therefore on federal land.

There is now no road connection between Teton County, Wyoming, and Teton County, Idaho.

75 posted on 06/09/2024 1:12:36 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: steve86

I think it is safe to say the Teton pass route isn’t going to get fixed this year. It is not like a simple washout when a bunch of dirt can be hauled in to recreate the road bed...


76 posted on 06/09/2024 1:20:08 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: CdMGuy

Yes, those Big Sur failures are similar.


77 posted on 06/09/2024 1:53:10 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: SamAdams76

It’ll get built back better, I’m sure.


78 posted on 06/09/2024 2:25:40 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: Drew68

Throw the jet thrusters off exactly when we jump.


79 posted on 06/09/2024 3:28:51 PM PDT by pas
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To: Drew68
Sometimes the road washes out.

Sometimes the mountain falls onto the road.


80 posted on 06/09/2024 5:51:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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