Panther Gap Road Closed Due to Slide
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Slide on Panther Gap. [Photo from Humboldt County Public Works]
Press release from the County of Humboldt:
Panther Gap is currently closed due to a rock slide. Crews are on scene beginning clean up. Unknown time frame on closure. Updates will be posted as they become available.
UPDATE: Panther Gap Road Collapse Declared Local State of Emergency
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Keep it closed.
Demolish all nearby growsteads.
incorporate depopulated parcels into Humboldt redwood state park and Gilliam butte connectivity planning.
and kick Canyon Oak out of his/her home and let the displaced live there. 🙂
And take more private property off of the tax rolls to take even more money from road maintenance. Shoot yourself in the foot much?
Interesting you want the state to manage it. What with all the illegal grows found on them already.
A shitty road is a growers greatest defense against raids and rippers.
🕯Thanks for the info Kym. That’s two in two days. Not unusual but one for one.
Mountains are movin’….
And a fine road it is. Left over from the horse and wagon days. Be careful people.
So much for connectivity. Hurting for the neighbors. Last year it took many trucks of rock. tricky, tweeky, trucky, mucky!
There’s a locked gate at the top of Panther Gap road. Is that a public road? Guess I’d like to drive freely down to my Bulgarian friend’s house if it’s public.
That locked gate is Parks.. Kemp road
There have been NO locked gates for 2 yrs…
All four lanes are open now. Caltrans workers hard all night to make sure the growers morning commute was easy.
I wish a load of rock would fall on my road. Sure would save me haul fees.
Every time I see picture of a rock fall with CalTrans shoving it over the edge of the highway, I think the same thing. Where does the stuff they load onto those dump trucks get dumped?
People are so nice….
There really are families with children and animals that make this place home.
I’m glad I have good neighbors to help out!
I want to go home….
There are two sections of Panther Gap road, most is Non County. The County only maintains the County section of that road.
Road is still closed to vehicles.
Some are walking across. Those with physical disabilities cannot.
I drove late Sunday night right through the slide. Once though it I felt safe till a Redwood tree fell and blocked Matole rd on me….arghh winter life!!!
Walked across the slide last night to bring supplies .hard to believe the road is history…..
All respect to our Volunteer Fire Guru, Lars. He is the reason our elderly mountain folk and disabled veterans were able to get out of the Gap for badly needed foods and medicines. Thank you, Lars. You are a true leader, and we need that out here right now.
Special thanks to those who are walking heavily-laden back and forth in the dark over nearly a quarter mile of highly unstable sediment with hundred foot drops while the County and State Park twiddle their fingers, pretending not to know how to reroute a dirt road. Way to waste the only patch of clear weather between now and July thinking about it. You deserve raises.
Brilliant project management by the Mensa members of our illustrious Humboldt County Crooks Association, by looking at a five-plus mile reroute through Neo-Bogata instead of the obvious reroute through Julie’s Driveway to the ridge just above the current slide. What would have been a two, or maybe three day fix for an intrepid weed farmer and a Bobcat last year has turned into another inbred bureaucratic circlejerk that may not get sorted at all. After six days, they’ve got no real plan. Your big brothers in the Federal Government would be proud of your ability to spread this out so well while simultaneously pretending to think weally, weally hard about it.
And a quick note to all the pulpiteers who think that every person in Panther Gap is a drug dealer:
-That would be like saying every child in Ferndale is a racist…
– Or every adult who lives in Honeydew is inbred…
– Or every student who graduates from Humboldt County is functionally illiterate…
– Or every good looking wife in Humboldt was shipped here from some place where inbreeding is frowned upon…
-Or that everyone who chooses to stay in Humboldt must be hiding something…like a secret weed empire…
– Or that no one in this county could get a job as a garbage collector outside this county…
As a county in desperate denial about it’s own identity, it must be scary knowing that weed is no longer the one thing about Humboldt that makes it worth living in…now all that’s left is the scenery and the people. So, there’s the scenery, at least.
But I digress. More importantly, ask yourself this simple question:
When your road blows out, what will you do?
I see the current difference. The difference is that you have heat, electricty, food, water, and medical supplies. I wonder how loud your complaints would be if the slide had taken out the parking lot to Costco, or your local bar. Or the Mattole Road. Or the 101.
You act as though the Gap is some thriving outlaw community. It shows your enduring ignorance. You are about three years too late on all the weed-related hate. Perhaps you should have voted differently.
The only people even left in the Gap are a few PUBLICALLY TRADED weed companies growing legally in the Gap, and survivalists. All the mall monsters and inbred offspring have run screaming with their tails between their legs, because the only thing more terrifying than jail to these morons is having to actually run a business and manage profits properly. To a person, they have failed. Please see the above insults for the myriad reasons why.
Panther Gap has not been this safe from idiotic drug dealers in decades. Now, the only dangers are real world dangers, something most of you only read about on Twitter.
I invite any of you to hike into the Gap and come spend the weekend with us. We’ll find out where you end and we begin.
You couldn’t walk to the outhouse in our shoes. That’s why you don’t live here.
I’m glad someone else recognizes Lars’ efforts. He helped my father and I tremendously, and was able to get my father a regulator for his oxygen bottle after his broke. He even helped carry our stuff across the slide to a friends vehicle. I cant thank him enough for what he did for us. If it wasn’t for him I don’t know how my dad would have made it.
Can’t say as much for county and state workers at the slide. They were zero help when we told them we needed to get out. Basically told us we were just on our own.
Thank you Ryan and thank you Lars. Thank you Gene for coming to our rescue!
Thank you to all the people who helped us! It just makes the community stronger, people helping people, and thanks Ryan for all your help and support! Thanks again Lars:).
Is the roads back open i haven’t been able too get status on road can
Someone tell me please