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Part of California's famed Highway 1 crumbles into the ocean

21 points by jseliger 3y ago

userbinator 3y ago
"Big Sur is no longer supported."
- mthomasmw 3y ago
  Support is now upstream
renewiltord 3y ago
Happens every now and then. It’ll be back in months or so. Often they single lane it.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
  Yeah, is it really news beyond “maintainers of somewhat famous highway didn’t do very good erosion control over the years and are now suffering the consequences of that”?
  - Gibbon1 3y ago
    It's more like highway built on fundamentally unstable coastal geology[1] falls into the ocean here and there. [1] California is basically schmutz scraped off a subducting plate over the last 100 million years. Friend worked on a job where they excavated into a hillside behind a house and found a 10 inch wide crack filled with wet clay.
  - beej71 3y ago
    This coastline is incredibly unstable. They've done exceptional erosion control over the years, and only this much has happened.
- sottol 3y ago
  A big slide happened in Big Sur near Limekiln State Park and they're still fixing it, it's been over a year there. But this doesn't look as bad.
sriram_malhar 3y ago
Happens every year. 2023: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-18/we-had-a-plan-and-then-things-kept-moving-battered-yet-enduring-highway-one-remains-closed https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-18/we-had-a... 2022: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2022-12-31/atmospheric-river-dumps-heavy-rain-snow-across-california https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2... 2021: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/weather-news/article248858049.html https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/weather-news/article24885...
- xtiansimon 3y ago
  Ha. Reading the headline, I thought it was Devil’s Slide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Slide_(California) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Slide_(California)
  - Gibbon1 3y ago
    They built a tunnel to bypass devils slide. Now it's a pedestrian and bicycle path. On the Carquinez Strait there used to be a road that was abandoned due to landslides I think in the early 80's. Now is the George Miller Regional Trail.

21 points by jseliger 3y ago

userbinator 3y ago

"Big Sur is no longer supported."

mthomasmw 3y ago
Support is now upstream

renewiltord 3y ago

Happens every now and then. It’ll be back in months or so. Often they single lane it.

SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
Yeah, is it really news beyond “maintainers of somewhat famous highway didn’t do very good erosion control over the years and are now suffering the consequences of that”?
- Gibbon1 3y ago
  It's more like highway built on fundamentally unstable coastal geology[1] falls into the ocean here and there. [1] California is basically schmutz scraped off a subducting plate over the last 100 million years. Friend worked on a job where they excavated into a hillside behind a house and found a 10 inch wide crack filled with wet clay.
- beej71 3y ago
  This coastline is incredibly unstable. They've done exceptional erosion control over the years, and only this much has happened.
sottol 3y ago
A big slide happened in Big Sur near Limekiln State Park and they're still fixing it, it's been over a year there. But this doesn't look as bad.

sriram_malhar 3y ago

Happens every year. 2023: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-18/we-had-a-plan-and-then-things-kept-moving-battered-yet-enduring-highway-one-remains-closed https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-18/we-had-a... 2022: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2022-12-31/atmospheric-river-dumps-heavy-rain-snow-across-california https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2... 2021: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/weather-news/article248858049.html https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/weather-news/article24885...

xtiansimon 3y ago
Ha. Reading the headline, I thought it was Devil’s Slide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Slide_(California) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Slide_(California)
- Gibbon1 3y ago
  They built a tunnel to bypass devils slide. Now it's a pedestrian and bicycle path. On the Carquinez Strait there used to be a road that was abandoned due to landslides I think in the early 80's. Now is the George Miller Regional Trail.