Then, every once in a while a landslide buries part of the highway, or one of the many bridges becomes unsafe. When that happens, the only through-route between Cambria and Monterey is inland, on US101.
There have been a few severe winter storm seasons, so I suspected some section or another of rain soaked mountainside probably ended up on the highway, or a chunk of highway ended up in the Pacific. Or both. So before leaving Cayucos I checked Caltrans’ online road conditions report. Yup. The road was closed about halfway up. The best Caltrans could do was advise travelers to take an “alternate route.”
Caltrans is mostly awesome but can't undo geologic forces.
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Delete"Slip sliding away, slip sliding away".... wasn't that an old song?
ReplyDelete"Slip sliding away, slip sliding away, the nearer your destination, the more you're slip sliding away.....
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