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RT
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RT
8 years ago

“No” estimated time of reopening?

hm
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hm
8 years ago

Ah another pic for the “nature bats last” folder

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[…] Source: Large Sinkhole Devours Hwy 3 – Redheaded Blackbelt […]

Betsy
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Betsy
8 years ago

This is a landslide, not a sinkhole.

KEDRIC
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KEDRIC
8 years ago
Reply to  Betsy

I DON’T GET IT SAME THING HAPPENED IN BROOKINGS AND THE CALLED IT A SINK HOLE NOT !!!!!!!!!!! LANDSLIDE FOR SURE …

Norman
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Norman
8 years ago
Reply to  KEDRIC

Some people troll around the internet just trying to Flying mistakes that other people make makes him feel better just smile and go on you’re good

M.Savage
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M.Savage
8 years ago

I think it’s a sink hole. If it were a landslide wouldn’t there be debris coming down the hill?

Ernie Branscomb
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8 years ago
Reply to  M.Savage

If the mud landed on top of the ground it’s a ‘slide’. If in landed under the surface it’s a ‘sink hole’. I think that this is a slide. However, the salient point is “devours hwy 3”. Incredibly and undeniably true.

It's in the mail
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It's in the mail
7 years ago
Reply to  M.Savage

Landlord is working that problem, says it’s a slide.

Ullr rover
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Ullr rover
8 years ago

It looks like it is just south of trinity damn Blvd. …. so folks can get to 299 via lewiston (from Coffee creek and Trinity center). Any further north and the only route is out to I5 through seasonally available routes.

ED Denson
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ED Denson
8 years ago

It looks like a slip out. A sink hole should be contained by the unsunk earth around it, if that makes any sense. A landslide, as pointed out, should come down the mountain across the road. But whatever it is, the road is certainly closed. Here’s hoping no drunk in the dark and fog doesn’t stop. We had a slip out on the Alderpoint road several years ago and a man did drive right into it – about a 20′ drop as I recall it. I believe he survived. That’s today’s Southern Humboldt roads history trivia.

hippidippi
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hippidippi
8 years ago

So the water board and county tells us to fix our roads which are fine but here is a prime example of the shotty engineering they have going on themselves, …not to mention all that dirt is going to go down the creek into the river and cover up some salmon eggs,..

clueless
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clueless
8 years ago
Reply to  hippidippi

obviously you are clueless to the type of terrain, soil type and weather of the Northwestern part of the state. Any half witted engineer would tell you probably not the best place to have a road. It would most likely exceed a billion dollars to engineer and construct this road right. Better get growin’.

beel
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beel
8 years ago

I also object to the term sink hole. Geomorphologists have precise vocabulary to describe the variety of mass wasting events. Slide, slip out, fill failure, inner gorge landslide, slump, flow, the classification goes on; call it anything but sinkhole.
There are tension cracks in this 2012 google maps image:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8269278,-122.8882585,3a,75y,295.24h,77.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seQ0qz6pm-2xRJCrHqqjjxg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en-US
Looks like the slide is in Slate Creek, which is captured by Trinity Reservoir.
Possible detour via Slate Creek Road to Buckeye Ridge to Trinity Dam Blvd.

clueless
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clueless
8 years ago
Reply to  beel

good eye beel. pretty funny that there is a car going the other way there too. I’m suprised it lasted that long. Go earth! Hopefully though no one found it out the “hard way” that looks like a blind corner coming down the hill.

Beel
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Beel
8 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I love how responsive you are to comments. Thank you for being so thorough.

Jon
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Jon
8 years ago

Here’s the message on the Cal Trans road conditions web site http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi:

(They call this a slip-out)

SR 3
[IN THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA]
IS CLOSED FROM 10 MI NORTH OF WEAVERVILLE TO 18 MI SOUTH OF TRINITY CENTER
(TRINITY CO) – DUE TO A SLIP-OUT – MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE AN ALTERNATE
ROUTE

clueless
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clueless
8 years ago

In general sinkholes do not happen on hill slopes. It would be nice to see a few more pictures of the slide to determine which type of slide occurred. Obviously it is the top of the slide. @M.Savage’s logic is pretty ridiculous.

Xena
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Xena
8 years ago

Please fix it ASAP! We want to go to Ripple Creek Cabins !!!!

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[…] long after Caltrans posted the unsigned version of this photo of Hwy 3 with a chunk out of it, some wag added the encouraging words to the left. (Any one know […]