Part of California's famed Highway 1 crumbles into the ocean(cnn.com)
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Part of California's famed Highway 1 crumbles into the ocean
https://www.cnn.com/travel/california-highway-1-damage-big-sur/index.html
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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)
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.
Happens every now and then. It’ll be back in months or so. Often they single lane it.
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.
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”?
This coastline is incredibly unstable. They've done exceptional erosion control over the years, and only this much has happened.
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.
[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.
2023: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-18/we-had-a...
2022: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2...
2021: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/weather-news/article24885...