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We know the County guys have been working long hard hours. The last two days have been lovely but before that they were working in snow and rain for weeks. You can help tell them thanks with donations of homemade food and beverages. Anyone wishing to send snacks and edible love to our road crews contact Autumn @ 223-2322 or
Read moreUPDATE: Estelle Fennell at SoHum Awareness is reporting, “County Roads Makes it official. Don’t use Briceland-Ettersburg to go north. Use Alderpoint- Blocksburg- Bridgeville – Highway 36” A massive slide blocked 101 yesterday as falling water tables pulled liquid-saturated soil down with them. According to the Times Standard, “The Eel River Camp near the U.S. Highway 101 slide measured 16.47 inches
Read moreWild Currant blooming—It’s spring, it’s Humboldt and, in spite of the slide, it is a lovely day. Here are more wild currant photos.
Read moreLast night at 1am Caltrans and JF Shea punched through a road on the 101 Slide for EMERGENCY VEHICLES ONLY! Thomas Norris, a consultant employed by Caltrans, worked a full shift in Miranda yesterday at the job just south of there, then worked a shift at the 101 slide. I reached him as he was heading back out to work
Read moreLike a zombie in an apocalypse story, the dead in parts of Japan can now kill the living. As many as 1,000 bodies in Fukushima are left unburied as fears about radiation in the area mount. The bodies are contaminated with such high levels of radiation that not only will collecting and identifying them expose doctors and other workers to
Read moreUPDATE: I thought all you readers might enjoy knowing that WordPress.com (the most popular blogging platform online) has listed the OMG The Hill Ate the Road post as number 50 of their top 100 read posts today! They have over 400,000 posts per day. Thanks for reading, Humboldt and beyond. I’m glad you’re getting the information you need. ——————– Caltrans
Read morePHOTO UPDATE: By Eli DeVita Photo Update from Brian Sargent Photo UPDATE from Mark Lovelace taken by CHP Lieutenant Adam Jager: UPDATE: 4:18 : More photos from Will Hurlbutt the rancher whose land is swallowing 101. His son is the handsome young man in the first two photos. The land has been in his family for generations. (I hear that
Read moreUPDATE @ 5:50 pm 3/29: Estelle is reporting on SoHum Awareness that “[The] WEIGHT LIMIT HAS BEEN LIFTED ON BRICELAND ROAD REPAIR. Just learned from County Roads that the engineers have signed off on the repair and weight limit has been lifted. Please continue to drive carefully through Whitmore Grove. ” (Post Updated with Kim Salaway’s photos at 1:40 pm
Read moreSalmon Creek Road in Southern Humboldt near the intersection with Thomas Rd has an invasion of charming brown and white goats. If little Bo Peep wants to know where to find them, leaving them alone might not be a great option in this case, sadly they might be attached to the grills of cars if they aren’t rounded up soon.
Read moreFormer editor of the North Coast Journal and writer of the beloved Town Dandy column, Hank Sims has his own shining new Lost Coast blog. This first page combines his own inimitable writing with excerpts from KHUM’s interviews recorded. Mike Dronkers interviews Humboldt State Public Information Officer Jarad Petroske about the current bomb threat at HSU. (UPDATE: HSU has given
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