Part of Highway 1 in California Falls
Into the Ocean
New York Times,
by
Bryan Pietsch
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
1/31/2021 7:26:04 AM
A portion of Highway 1 near Big Sur, Calif., collapsed this week and fell into the Pacific Ocean after heavy rains caused a “debris flow” of trees, boulders, water and mud, leaving behind a 150-foot-wide gap.
Workers from the California Department of Transportation had been assessing the section of the road near Rat Creek, about 20 miles by highway from Big Sur, on Thursday when they discovered the debris on the road, the department said.
The department entered into an emergency contract that evening with a construction company to repair the road, but on Friday morning, workers discovered that both lanes had fallen into the ocean below.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
pinger 1/31/2021 8:02:33 AM (No. 679866)
Now if only this could happen all the way to the Nevada border...that would be something to celebrate.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/31/2021 8:09:13 AM (No. 679868)
Wife and I took out honeymoon trip down that way too many years ago. California was livable then Now,
I agree with #1. What about the rest?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mushroom 1/31/2021 8:10:54 AM (No. 679871)
From the available drone video it looks like the road was undercut by a stream.Moving water is nothing to mess with.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 1/31/2021 8:18:40 AM (No. 679879)
I don't know how many of you know that healer/prophet Edgar Cayce from Bowling Green Kentucky predicted years and years ago that California would some day slide into the Pacific ocean. Is this the beginning of his prediction coming true? We can only hope so !!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/31/2021 8:26:02 AM (No. 679883)
There are many L-dotters who live in Kalifornia and my heart goes out to them, but I have to agree with above posters.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jinx 1/31/2021 8:34:23 AM (No. 679885)
I am just wondering if they will give the contract to fix the highway to a company run by women and who employ only women? How long would it take to fix it? Hmmmmm. Just saying...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 1/31/2021 8:38:45 AM (No. 679887)
The Haitians are coming.
Maybe there are some builders in that bunch.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
franq 1/31/2021 8:51:23 AM (No. 679900)
Glad no one was hurt. Looking at the footage, I'm surprised it is even repairable. That's a might big gap to fill with stable material.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/31/2021 8:53:05 AM (No. 679901)
California is going to pieces and it's not restricted to this beautiful section of 101. Too hot, too dry, too much rain, uncontrollable fires, landslides, hordes of homeless, billions in debt and the worst natural catastrophe of them all, run by liberal lunatic democrats.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 1/31/2021 9:02:03 AM (No. 679905)
Fortunately, #5, I think a lot of the more conservative Californians live east of the San Andreas fault which would be the most likely culprit for a major quake.
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A great visual analogy. The only thing that would improve it would be a highway worker with the name tag "Newsom" directing traffic to go over the cliff.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/31/2021 9:08:48 AM (No. 679914)
“California West of the AZ and NV borders just slid into the Pacific” - That’s the one I’m waiting for.....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Californian 1/31/2021 9:23:46 AM (No. 679923)
5, thank you for remembering us.
10, I live 30 minutes outside San Francisco in the heart of the Silicon Valley. We are everywhere. We just don't say anything or we'll get fired and black listed. I've been here for decades but need another 18 months to wrap up before I head to a real state that isn't falling apart. Please wait for a bunch of us to escape before you look forward too much to that big quake.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 1/31/2021 9:33:47 AM (No. 679939)
It's called a road slip and we have about 10 of them around where I live...they keep shoveling blacktop in without fixing the underlying cause, which is poor to no drainage from the high side of the road...but I'm not a 'fluid engineer' and I don't know anything about it...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Namma 1/31/2021 9:35:48 AM (No. 679942)
Just have jo Bi Deng sign an EO staying no more landslides. All will be well
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/31/2021 9:37:13 AM (No. 679944)
Southern California stole all the water from the northern area water sources so that the elites in the south could fill their swimming pools, water their lush manicured lawns and stand around waiting for movie parts. I have family in the northern area. But having a major road slip-sliding away, seems like the end of days.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/31/2021 10:04:35 AM (No. 679972)
Unless the section of Highway 1 that fell into the ocean was along the Nevada border, who cares?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Quigley 1/31/2021 10:04:45 AM (No. 679973)
gavin is too busy getting manicures to be bothered with infrastructure.
Today he's upset because the butler drew his bath and the water was "positively tepid."
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/31/2021 10:10:47 AM (No. 679984)
More proof of global warming and the coming catastrophe...it should never be repaired, serving as a memorial to what happens when man challenges nature. s/off
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
red1066 1/31/2021 10:13:05 AM (No. 679991)
The extent of the destruction is just amazing. This may call for another Bixby bridge around Big Sur. Everyone has seen the Bixby bridge on tv. Every car commercial for the last 50 years has shown a vehicle crossing that bridge with the Pacific in the background. As a result, it's a big tourist attraction.
3 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/31/2021 10:46:05 AM (No. 680023)
White racist right-wing terrorism!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
padiva 1/31/2021 10:57:53 AM (No. 680035)
This part of the highway will now be known as 'The Biden Rest Stop'.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 1/31/2021 11:02:50 AM (No. 680036)
Make sure the road crew is the proper % of Purple Hair, 250 pound Gender Fluid (females?). I know...I know! I just don't get it! I'm like old and stuff...
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 1/31/2021 11:27:31 AM (No. 680064)
Since I won't click on NYT, here's a link to a report on this.
https://www.ksbw.com/article/section-of-highway-1-in-big-sur-falls-into-the-ocean/35356732#
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Buzzman 1/31/2021 11:37:25 AM (No. 680074)
It's a good start....................
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The last time something like this happened was in the eighties but it was a huge slide from above that covered the highway instead. That took quite a while to clear up while local residents had to put up with really big detours. This one will take forever to repair.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Hermoine 1/31/2021 11:47:26 AM (No. 680081)
Climate change, climate change, climate change...blah, blah, blah. That's all we'll hear out of the powers that be in CA. They're probably glad it happened.,.people won't be able to drive their cars on that section of HWY 1.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
FLCracker 1/31/2021 11:55:49 AM (No. 680095)
#3 On the other hand, they're have a new waterfall forming.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 1/31/2021 12:13:17 PM (No. 680115)
Just further evidence that Kalifornia is falling apart.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/31/2021 12:21:20 PM (No. 680123)
Didn't another part of Highway 1 get washed away up around Big Sur a couple years ago? Have to imagine this is not the first time it has happened, and sadly, probably not the last.
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All of this snide commentary about good riddance to Californians is getting old and not helping the country's problems. Speaking as a Californian, I have no intention of moving to another state. California is a big state and can be won back to normal Americans who don't reside in the LA and SF dumpsters. The inbred royal families that rule California; the Pelosi's, Newsom's and the Brown families have just about run out their reign of terror over the last sixty five or so years. Read about their history. They're all interrelated. They've got all the power now, but are sitting on top of a volcano that's about to erupt. There are way more of us than there are of the Royal coven's minions. One or two elections is all that it takes.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 1/31/2021 12:25:48 PM (No. 680133)
They may want to consider a bridge at this point. Mother Nature will always win these battles and sometimes its just best to let her have her way!!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
legalart 1/31/2021 2:55:03 PM (No. 680342)
In politically correct Kalifornia, even Mother Nature favors making Kalifornia Mexican again.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Mike22 1/31/2021 4:54:19 PM (No. 680427)
All of you haters, pull up your wikipedia, pick a state, search the 2020 presidential election and click on the state map. You can see the blue and the red counties. For California, if you draw a line representing the San Andreas you will see that the vast majority of he liberals live to the west of the big fault line. So if your wishing for something wish for the state to split there as a great many of the people in the eastern section of the wish every day. We could keep our water, even build some new resevoirs at sites that were planned 70 years ago and our clean green hydro-power; and could once again arrest shoplifters and get control of the mentally ill, the drug addicts and the homeless. It would be nice to swim in our beautiful creeks and rivers again without worrying about the fecal contamination from the nice homeless people camped out in the wooded areas along river and stream banks. It would be nice to see the dead trees logged out of our forests, the fire/logging trails cleared so fire equipment can have access to small fires before they become huge, and people other than 20 something environmental group types can enjoy the back country. Putting the criminals back in jail so that everything that isn't tied down would no longer be stolen. It would be nice to once again help women become skilled users of the light, accurate AR15 style rifles. But the people by the coasts who appear to lack any analytic ability or even rationality, and who are moving to your state as the jobs move will continue to be rabid supporters of the left. And your state may become a totally deranged blue state before you know it because your new immigrants "know" that anyone on the right is evil and all the ideas of the left are brilliant.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
or gate 1/31/2021 7:01:52 PM (No. 680517)
If you told those know it all's, they wouldn't believe you.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
SweetSweetback 1/31/2021 7:42:01 PM (No. 680561)
....it begins.....
Like Sodom and Gomorrah, like.......
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