Hwy 101 Near the Humboldt/Mendocino County Line Is Dropping
101 by Cooks Valley. [Photos by David Landergen]
The current open “lane” is actually on the uphill slope more on the roadside than on the normal roadway.
Concerns are mounting that the road could close and there is no detour readily obvious for the major north south travel route.
However, according to Myles Cochrane, spokesperson for Caltrans, “24-7 monitoring of the site continues and so long as it’s open it’s safe. Crews continue to conduct and plan proactive stabilization efforts and have been mobilizing equipment in the event of further slide activity. We’re encouraging folks to follow us via ‘Caltrans District 1’ on social media for further updates if and when they’ll be necessary.”
KMUD interviewed Cochrane here:
UPDATE:
Earlier: Continue to Expect One Way Traffic on Hwy 101 at Humboldt/Mendocino County Line
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Great…
More adversity…
Earthquakes, near record snow, flooding, pandemic, loss of industry…
Banks, structures, businesses, and our roadways collapsing…
Power outages, freezing temperatures bursted plumbing, spiraling inflation, price gouging…
We are experiencing a regular smorgasbord of challenges here in Humboldt…
Thorough list. Three more additions would be widespread and ever increasing substance abuse, poverty, and homelessness.
And COVID shit !!
Tranq zombie dope is lurking 🙁
Wasn’t it only one, very poorly managed, bank so far?
Shhh… their on an overhilljellyroll on and on.
Signature Bank seems to be closed, but it may be part of the psychological fall-out from the ineptitude and incompetence at SVB. A classic old-school “run” on banks based on “no confidence.”
Silicone Valley Bank (SVB), and
Signature Bank…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2023/03/13/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-live-updates/11464387002/
‘Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank collapses explained, live updates on new developments’
Two actually.
Yep, I think we all can share in your frustration. Don’t feel like your the lone ranger.
I meant all of us…
I wasn’t using the “editorial” “we”…
I was using the “all inclusive” “we”…
If this rain keeps up, the snow will finally melt enough for us to get out of our driveway by tomorrow…
Yay!
Yep I had high hopes. Just tried moving my truck, didn’t even make it 100′. Guess my initial projection of being stuck another 7-10 days was right
??✝️ End times. It’s in the Bible. The prophecies are happening right before our eyes.
Repent and be baptized. Before it’s too late!
? Warnings are everywhere! Start taking them seriously before it’s too late for you.
And that’s the reason this whole country is going down the drain
They’ve been saying “end times” for 2000 years, yet here we are.
It’s all explained in the Books of Revelation in the Holy Bible…
At least you are keeping your sense of humor ???
Yes we are…l was taught that it’s not what happens to us but how we react to it.
There is another dropout coming just a couple hundred feet northbound of Bigfoot Burl. When it goes, and it will, it will take out the whole highway. With no way around.
One of the major problems after the ’64 flood was a slide between Bigfoot Burl and the end of the Twin Trees freeway. It was impossible the pass for a long time. Start hoarding now. You will thank yourself later.
But try and fix that road around there and you’ll be sued for decades. Let it wash away. I’d love to hear the obstructionist proposed solution
What caused that rupture in the road?
Is that the result of a washout or is there a little fault line right there?
The hills are all pretty much “aggregate” and with all the rain, well, it doesn’t take an earthquake… There are various bits of NorCal roads and mountains “slip-slidin’ away” all the time… to paraphrase that old song…
Also the sharp ox-bow turn of the river is slamming the foot of the narrow slope between road and river there.
If it goes catastrophically river flow will change – more under cutting, damming?
Time will tell.
I’m concerned about the rivers where the dams are being removed.?
Probably a failed culvert…
They’ve been patching that stretch of Road for decades, I think it blew out back in 86.
Likely a pocket of blue clay, or a culvert failure. Blue clay is our landslide villain in this neck of the woods.
You get enough rain and it lubricates deep strata more than an average year. Back in the 1980-3 flood cycle my driveway dropped 6 inches or so. Never did it again. (Knock on wood)
Not to mention the water in the ground is heavy as all get-out. So weaker structural strength + a lot of extra weight + gravity = inevitable slides.
Many thanks to all respondants who explained why washout was the likely cause of the road rupture (not seismic) and the various possible specific reasons for the washout (good stuff).
How awful. We haven’t even had record rains up here.
Normal rain, or above normal is enough I guess! Record breaking rainfall happens….once?
When the weather clears, and 101 is washed out to be undrivable, is when we need a strong General Aviation presence at the Garberville, and other, small county airports. With local pilots to use them.
Great suggestion!
??Until then, the Navy it is…??
I suggest anyone going north stock up before getting to Laytonville.
I don’t know about today, but last Friday Geigers was so empty of products it looked like they were going out of business.
Dairy case was totally empty, no butter, no cheese, just a few eggs and I scored 2 quarts of whipping cream and made my own butter. No salad produce, just a few loaves of bread, everything was depleted.
Yeah I heard it was real slim down there. My bro grabbed me some supplies on Friday. Managed to get milk eggs bread & the very last piece of cheese.
Geigers is poorly stocked on a good day. Word around town is they’re suffering from the lack of revenue and likely are gonna go under
Very expensive too. $9.99 for a qt of whipping cream, that makes about one lb of butter.
Drastic downsizing in the last few months.
I try to shop in willits when possible. But I think each time I go into geigers the produce section gets smaller. And they never have beer. Beer. The most basic thing any small town store stocks.
9.99 for whipping cream ouch
We can handle a lot of devastation but if we run out of beer there will be total chaos and destruction in the streets. People will totally loose their minds! Probably the end of society as we know it
To be sure
Or worse yet if we lose the internet.
Beer is pretty damn easy to make.
No beer… That’s in American.
Their supposed expansion to Hopland sure seems to not be happening.
But it says Hopland right on the upscale new bags…
There is the bell springs ridge road as an alternative to avoid county line 01 problem. Longer and may involve snow. Come down at garberville?
?????
Hysterical suggestion. Not for the faint of heart, and any but the most robust of 4-wheel drive vehicles.
bell is not passable please stay off of bell unless you live on the road and know the conditions!
Yes please stay off any back roads right now unless you need to be there
In 1973 a flagman waved my friends parents through a similar slippage on the Last Chance Grade near Crescent City. The road slipped beneath them and they went 1000 feet into the Pacific. Stay home.
That’s horrible!! Sorry to hear that & thanks for sharing. Hopefully it will be applied when possible
Wait….they died? Can’t imagine anyone surviving a 1,000 foot fall into the ocean.
Yes. They died
That’s it m buying ALL the toilet paper!
Lol, most voters will be you to it!
Close 101 permanently. The LOST coast needs to remain lost….
Amen, now is the time to put the Gates up. 101 north, 101 south, 299, 36.
Decades and decades and decades of evidence demonstrate that, 101 in these parts being open or closed, the area nonetheless remains lost, adrift, even circling the drain a bit.
Have fun trying to get building materials and supplies when it happens.
You’re joking, right? Have you seen how many trees we have around here?
Def doesn’t seem like they’ve been doing any work at the slip out.. just closed the lanes and that’s it for a couple.months.. maybe waiting for weather to clear?
Ya right, I’m sure the entire Caltrans crew is sitting in their dump trucks watching it slide down the hill. Just as I’m sure that somewhere a little rat is rubbing its hands together wondering how much more gas tax they can add on to repair the road and get a little more for the retirement account.
Actually, there no caltrans during the night, Haven’t seen them during the day. It’s granite construction doing the watching. I’ve been going through it since before they made it one lane
Heading north from Ukiah, can you take 20 west at Willits, then use Hwy 1 to get to Leggett and go north from there on 101? It’s a big detour, but…
101 is still open. And this is north of Leggett.
Rats. This could be tough for South Humboldt folks.
Concerned that with the additional rain forecast this evening and tomorrow morning will finish washing it down the hillside.
Two days of ‘sunshine’ (Wed/Thurs)… then MORE RAIN.
All the hillsides are soaked, they are going to be moving for a long while.
Daarn Government, they’ll be spending Billion$ of secured-funding and for years, fixing the highways we all rely on.
If the darn government would take some of the billions being spent on the bullet train project and apply it to the 101 in Del Norte, Humboldt and Mendocino, we should be good for many years of floods, earthquakes, slides, etc.
Agreed. That train, great idea that got utterly botched, mired, and so on. CCP would have had it done by now and 1/10 the cost … albeit dozens of workers impaled, buried in concrete, electrocuted along the way.
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Get gas and food stored now because when that road goes out you can bet your ass the price gouging (that is supposed to be illegal) will start! The price of everything will go up on claims that it takes the trucks longer to go around. ???♀️
Total bs but get ready for it, because it’s going to happen!!
Our Fuel comes in to eureka by boat behind the mall, we get gouged year round no matter the circumstances.
Yet for some reason eBay and Amazon will still have s*** to my po box in three days for half the price, go figure..
Anyone who lives between Ukiah and Eureka gets price gouged daily.
Reggae In The River?
Maybe Your rig in the river
I almost lost one of my 4runners to the Gualala River during the wet winter of 16-17, she quit running nose down in a deep puddle that was rapidly becoming part of the flooding river. Cranked it for like three loooong minutes and that old three point slow came back to life and extricated herself from what surely would have been a trip out to sea. Sadly it ruined the transmission.
Lol
plagues, earthquakes, torrential rains, floods, 70 mph wind gusts, bank closures, this is becoming tiresome.