More problems for Big Sur
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It's Mud Creek which is one of the two major slides that have been closed for a while now but a LOT more of it came down Saturday night. Work and local access had already been halted as the hillside was looking unstable. The other major slide, Paul's Slide, has also had enough recent activity for work to have stopped for a few days now. It was originally hoped that the southern end of the highway could be reopened up to Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge by summer but now it looks like the bridge will be done first.
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Wow, Stu, that last comment landed wrong for me.
An awful lot of people are out of work and/or may lose their businesses because of this, and are massively inconvenienced, maybe even endangered, by isolation in the meantime. It's very sad.
An awful lot of people are out of work and/or may lose their businesses because of this, and are massively inconvenienced, maybe even endangered, by isolation in the meantime. It's very sad.
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I had the same thoughts, how could they know that no cars were trapped underneath. I didn't realize that the road had already been closed in that area. Also read that they were already semi isolated due to the buckling if the Pfeiffer bridge. How sad for that area.
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I read that repair crews were working on that area when they began to feel unsafe. One man said he got hit in the head by a rock! So they wisely decided to stop work and leave, and then the new slide happened.
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That section of the highway may be closed for a year http://www.montereyherald.com/genera...sed-for-a-year