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AngliaGT

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This morning,a huge slide (600'Wide X 1500'High)
closed 101,about 5 miles North of Garberville,so if I decided
to go to the MG meet at Sears Point,I'd have to take the long
way around (about 7 hours).

- Doug
 
CalTrans says 2-3 days. Wouldn't you know, that's the one section where they used the old highway for new.
A little further north or south and you'd have been fine.
 
AngliaGT said:
This morning,a huge slide (600'Wide X 1500'High)
closed 101,about 5 miles North of Garberville,so if I decided
to go to the MG meet at Sears Point,I'd have to take the long
way around (about 7 hours).

- Doug
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Doug, Have they decided how their going to make the repair? It would seem to me that the section will have to be bridged. A major job no mater how they decide to do it, which will probably depend on cost, as money rules. PJ
 
Next Tuesday, the Colorado DOT will be closing I-70 between Georgetown and the Eisenhower tunnel (East side of the tunnel) from 9am-5pm to remove boulders. The boulders range from 2 foot diameter to 16 foot diameter. Imagine the damage those could do if left unattended. They do have fences up to catch a lot of smaller stuff but the bigger stuff can wipe out a fence and bring it all down. They are trying to avoid a slide of bif stuff that closed 1/2 of I-70 west of Vail for a couple of weeks last year.

Anybody coming to VTR in Breckenridge this August from the east will most likely drive this section of I-70.
 
I don't know why it would have to be bridged.
The hillside came down onto the road, the road didn't go into the river.
Interesting the way the wave of earth went under the asphalt and bucked the roadway.
 
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I can remember driving that section of 101 on my way to Big Sur I was so clad I was in the Light weight Healey I did not know what to do--- :lol:---Keoke
 
Oddly enough,I was thinking on how you'd get around if that section
of road was closed.There are a couple of secondary roads,but you have to
do a lot more driving to get to the same destination.
They're still saying 2-3 to have one lane open,but I don't see how
you could stop it from moving while working on it.It hasn't stopped moving
yet.

- Doug
 
Finally found the video
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Don,

That's Highway 1,not 101.
They got 101 opened back up in five days.
Those guys earned their money.

- Doug
 
Tomato , Tomatoe
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