Whoa, The Slide that Keeps on Coming (Video)
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Tuesday, January 3, about 1 p.m., the slide at Big French Creek Road on Hwy 299 shrugged and threw off a big chunk of hillside. Luckily, Mike Jensen from Scotia happened to be videoing and captured the dramatic rush down the hillside.
Hwy 299, an important east/west route, has been closed at this site since two big slides came down on December 5. With Caltrans workers contending against massive collapses like this, no wonder the highway agency doesn’t expect the route to open until mid-January.
Senator Mike McGuire reports that before traffic can start traveling through the slide area 300,000 yards of debris “will need to be removed and a temporary one lane detour is being constructed..[The contractor is] working double shifts, but bad weather is slowing the process.”
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Wow! Kinda funny to see the equipment operator move his equipment away from the slide zone, AFTER the material fell down.
Maybe the operator was going back to work, and the guy on the radio was just fooling with the operator. Ever work in the construction industry? It is a daily occurrence…..
Why don’t they just blast it all down at once?
Because of the fact that environmental impact studies would need to be done, costing an obscene amount of money, and the fact that mountain would have to be moved, none of that is the financial equivalent of filling a pot hole…. Not rocket science, there are steps to doing things, large steps, and especially in California…
They could sell the dirt to growers.
Don’t know the difference between dirt and soil for growing mediums eh? Maybe you could set up a stand. ‘Dirt’….cheap.
Obviously it would need amendments, but why shouldn’t caltrans make a buck off the dopers?
In a year or two the dopers will be dinosaurs, unless the new regime shuts them down by force sooner.
Lol, man what world do you live in, other than the world of a psychotic break……. Please seek help, I doubt I’m the only one concerned about your mental health….
Why are you under the impression that an environmental impact study would be required? Are you assuming it would send a large amount of sediment into the river?
The permitting process is slower than the geologic forces that created these mountains.
Pass!!!
Could be a sign of things to come. In any event, it’s probably gonna be a long Winter. Be careful out there Road Crews. It’s nice to have you Guys&Gals around.
Gas
Looks like they have a seam of the dreaded “blue clay”. That stuff is slicker than axle grease.
Since it is in gold country, I wonder……… maybe a big strike to be found in the DIRT.
Any updates on 299 reopening?
Nothing so far.