Winter in the Pacific Northwest
One element of winter is Earth Movement and it has started in Oregon. From
Eugene station KVAL:
Rockslide on 101: 'The whole Oregon Coast is a slide'
A rockslide came down across Highway 101 Wednesday afternoon, blocking several lanes and slowing traffic.
A bit more and a DOH!-worthy observation from an Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman:
Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman Jared Castle says slides and sinks along the coastal highway are routine, although one of this size is unusual.
�U.S. 101 is built in an area where you would never build a highway,� Castle says, talking about the precarious location of the roadway. �The whole Oregon Coast is a slide.�
One commenter noted that the road was freshly paved. We have been getting a lot of roadwork up here too -- stimulus money. The only problem is that the various projects have to be completed within a specific time. The only projects that can be done are band-aid ones -- repaving a road. The time required to do serious engineering (stopping a rock slide, rebuilding a bridge, etc...) precludes the use of stimulus funding.
Posted by DaveH at October 30, 2009 7:49 PM