[UPDATE 10:25 p.m.] Sinkhole Swallows Road to Willits Creekside Cabins, Leaves Fifty Guests Stranded
The sinkhole nearly swallowed the entire vehicle. [Crop of a photo provided by Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Captain Greg Van Patten]
The small, two-lane road to the property has been washed away as the atmospheric river undermined the road’s integrity. Tonight, the approximately fifty guests are stranded at the resort and what happens next is unclear.
Law enforcement at the scene. [Photo provided]
The manager of the resort Jerry Weidemann told us in a phone call that Caltrans successfully extricated the vehicle and, in the subsequent hours, the road has completely washed away.
Closeup of the hole. [Photo provided]
As of 7:08 this evening, Weidemann is unclear what emergency crews intend to do- possibly a temporary bridge or something else would be deployed that would allow vehicles to leave.
UPDATE 10:25 p.m.: The County of Mendocino posted on Facebook at 10:14 p.m., “The Mendocino County Office of Emergency Services has contacted the California Office of Emergency Services for assistance with the sinkhole at Creekside Cabins off of Hwy 101. More information will be provided as it becomes available.”
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Hotel California.
A quick tune up that car be fine.
Old flat bed rail cars make great bridges
Yeah, but that hours-long silt-soak won’t look good on CARFAX. How’s the warranty?
your acting like they would honor the warranty even if it wasn’t flooded…
How long ago was the last RR flat car built?
Damn. That area got hammered today. South end past McD. was totally flooded. Manhole covers spewing water, had to drive thru a couple places that were 10 plus inches deep.
Drive back north around 130 was pretty sketchy
Call the Waterboard. Hefty fines will compel the Recreational Vehicle Cartel into Compliance!
CDFW. This operation is in it for profit. If that day ever comes.
It’s high time we gig these scofflaws for OVERSIZED culverts. There is no culvert. Anymore. How big is the Universe? That’s too big for a culvert.
Take the night off! You’re tired and you’re trying too hard. Hell, take the rest of the year off!
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Namaste
“It ain’t got no gas in it” 😀 glad everyone’s aok!
I wonder if semi’s will be able to get through there next week for Laytonville deliveries, or will they have to take 20 over to Hwy 1 and cross back over on Branscomb Rd, then head north.
Yes… 101 is fine… this didn’t happen on the actual hwy 101.
Thanks.
Apparently, it was the “small two-lane access road” leading off US 101 that washed out, not 101.
Ok, remove “access” from my quote above.
Wtf this is crazy
Holy water
Hey!! You can’t park there!
Dem Duke boys can jump that little pothole and get folks in and out. Driver of that car musta been Tyrone F. Horneigh…
aka Tweakside, why is this anything more than a private property problem?
CalTrans controls access to highways.
That kinda thing happens in drier places, too. In 2016, about 40 feet of a State Highway got washed out when a culvert 30 feet below the road failed like that. There was briefly water covering the road, which fortunately stopped traffic from driving to perdition.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/state/texas-news/floodwaters-wash-out-state-highway-in-eastland-county/287-229186376
There’s a pretty good possibility the bridge was not in great shape before the storms. Many of those little bridges crossing in the icebox canyon have failed. Many others are near failure. One at the beginning of the canyon there fell apart many years ago and has not been replaced due to expensive and extensive environmental impact reports and other requirements to replace it. This could be a really big deal for Creekside Campground and Cabins for a very long time. The people that live there do not have much of anything. Living in a small trailers like that you don’t have a lot of availability for storage of food or other items. How are they’re going to get back across the creek? A long trek they’re going to have to hike up over the top of the mountain out to Big Trails Road. Many of the seniors that live there have severe health problems that would prevent that from happening. Can use a big fire truck ladder bucket and reach over the gap , or a bucket lift . There is not a lot of area on the side of the road for parking of a big vehicle to do rescues. Then after that where are they honestly going to go? The financial situation for many will not allow securing emergency shelter at a hotel, and it’s not that their trailers were damaged just the access to them. There is nowhere for them. . This is a pretty big disaster for that little neck of the woods.
Of course they could use two vehicles (one on highway side, the other across the creek), and share the driving expenses and shop together. Kind of like what we used to call carpooling. Sometimes these things bring people closer together.
Just my take.
Looks like you can walk around it on the right. They could easily lay a flatcar bridge there for the time being.
Yeah looked like you could drive over it till u couldn’t
Just awful.
We stopped and checked out the situation doesn’t even look like there ever was ever a standard culvert that ran underneath that. Walls on either side and then a concrete tube that ran underneath looks like the tube got clogged and it eroded out the roadway underneath.
Honey, I don’t think this looks like a good time to go cave diving. I can’t see anything.